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ballageek

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24. August 2005 @ 21:48

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ive read in alot of threads from alot of forums that opening up ports will help increase the speeds of ur torrent download. ive been downloading files really slow. and i was wondering if someone could elaborate on openin up the ports like how would i do it. im using windows xp and i have di624 router with sbc yahoo dsl. im on my laptop with wireless connection so any help to "open up the ports" would be a lot of help. thx in advance for the help. o ya, if it helps im using bitcomet as my torrent clietn.

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DVDBack23

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24. August 2005 @ 22:14

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portforward.com

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ballageek

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24. August 2005 @ 23:15

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i saw thta site earlier and tried to do wat it told me to do for port forwarding for di624 for bitcomet. i dont see any change at all. and just in case, did i have to change my listen port in bitcomet to 12242(the port bitcomet uses according to portfoward.com). and i was reading of the the stickys about bittorent on this page about opening ports 6881-6889 or something like htat. i dont really get it. so any body can help explain and lead me thru this process of opening my ports?
thans again.

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DVDBack23

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25. August 2005 @ 08:46

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Do not open ports 6881, etc, they are blocked by most trackers and isp's.

Please go to dslreports.com, speed tests and then post your max upload and download speeds.

Did you create a static IP, and follow every step of the portforwarding guide for your router?

How many seeds and peers are part of the torrent you are downlaoding?

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ballageek

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25. August 2005 @ 11:36

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Use the Destination drop down box to select LAN,*. Enter the ports to allow in to your network into the Port Range box. The lowest port number should go into the box on the left hand side. The highest port number should go into the box on the right hand side.

i think im tryin to firewall so that the bitcomet can get through. wat dowsthe above paragraph tell me to do? the port numbers is my internal ip of my computer? or wat is it? thx for the help.

and this is my report from the speedtest

Your download speed : 1147808 bps, or 1120 kbps.
A 140.1 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 321207 bps, or 313 kbps.

i dont relally check the seeds/peers wen i download, but last time on new releases like bleach/naruto(anime) i could reach up to 100-200+ but now im gettin under 20 and usually under 10 kb/s.
hopefully i gav u enuff info to help me

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ballageek

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25. August 2005 @ 11:39

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ok i knwo that port range is not the ip. my bad on that. so do u hav any clue wat i should put for my starting and ending port range?

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25. August 2005 @ 12:18

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For bitcomet it is 12242-12242.

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ballageek

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25. August 2005 @ 22:11

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thx for all ur help so far. but wat would i put for source ip range start-source ip range end and destination ip range-destination ip reange end. heres a pic of wat it looks like. i thought that if i put in my static ip it would work. but i get error invalid source ip range. any help?

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joe777

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11. September 2005 @ 15:31

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http://portforward.com/routers.htm

please go here and solve all your probs.

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DVDBack23

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11. September 2005 @ 16:00

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Joe,

Stop adding unnecesary posts to get your count up, he has read the portforward website.

Follow this guide to open your firewall http://www.firewalling.com/dlink/di-624-firewall.htm

Then, continue by opening the ports under Virtual server in your router.

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