Topic: wow. I need bit torrent help (router content)

[Gordon]

had the router hooked up a few months ago and had some issues (non torrent) so I got rid of it.  well the roommate wants to use his laptop and I want to have a cheaper cable bill so I hooked it back up today.  before I had the ports opened and everything was fine.  I had the wireless securtiy setting disabled and a nieighbor could get on.  set it to wep 64 this time.  went in and opened the ports in the router and saved, opened them in my client to match but am still behind a firewall (yellow light and only uploading at about 10kbs)  got on a torrent on dime to make sure and I am firewalled.  I have tried different port #'s etc and it is still kicking my ass.  linksys router if that matters.

[Gordon]

very strange.   just did it agin the exact same way I did before and it's working.

[Diggin]

what BT client are you running?

[ethan]

had the router hooked up a few months ago and had some issues (non torrent) so I got rid of it.  well the roommate wants to use his laptop and I want to have a cheaper cable bill so I hooked it back up today.  before I had the ports opened and everything was fine.  I had the wireless securtiy setting disabled and a nieighbor could get on.  set it to wep 64 this time.  went in and opened the ports in the router and saved, opened them in my client to match but am still behind a firewall (yellow light and only uploading at about 10kbs)  got on a torrent on dime to make sure and I am firewalled.  I have tried different port #'s etc and it is still kicking my ass.  linksys router if that matters.

Are you sure that your computers local IP matches the IP you're forwarding too?

The laptop might have grabbed the IP you formerly have.

On your BT computer:

Start > Run

Type: cmd

In the window type: ipconfig /all

Does the IP Address printed by the above command match what's in your linksys?

FWIW I have a linksys and setting up WEP doesnt really affect anything else related to BT.

-e

[Phil]

If you and your roomate want to use bittorrent, then you would need to split forwarding your ports on your linksys.  You and your roomate should use static ip's so the port forwarding does not forward to an address your no longer at.  Also, don't forget you would get differnt ip's depending on if you use wireless or wired connection due to different mac addresses.

For example:

You= 192.168.1.10  forward ports = 6881-6885 to 192.168.1.10

Roomate= 192.168.1.11 forward ports = 6886-6889 to 192.168.1.11

Also make sure you don't have any software firewalls blocking anything like Zonealarm, McAfee, Norton, etc.