Topic: Internet firewall help...

[Swampy]

So, I was never firewalled before... I always could download torrents fine, and did quite often. But about a month or so ago, I noticed the torrents didnt really work anymore, when I checked bt.etree.org, I found out I was firewalled... I made sure to shut off the firewalls on both computers internet connections, and also found that my brother had put a zone alarm firewall on the computer downstairs which I disabled. I also fowarded the ports. I am on a Lynksys wireless system, but that never seemed to be a problem before. Maybe the reason bt.etree is showing me firewalled is because Im on a lynksys? Is there somthing I dont know? CAN ANYONE HELP? THANKS!

[Nick in Edinboro]

You definately want a firewall Alex.

Do you have the ports open on your Linksys?  Are you port forwarding to the proper IP (your computer and not your brothers)?

The firewall should just set it's permissions for BT as "trusted" and it will allow it to do it's mojo.  I recommend Kerio.



These I googled:
http://userpages.umbc.edu/~hamilton/btclientconfig.html
http://www.computing.net/windowsxp/wwwboard/forum/108799.html
http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=493
http://www.zeropaid.com/bbs/showpost.php?p=226875&postcount=14

[Swampy]

Hmmm, Ill get to work... Thanks

[phishn]

Plus I would assign your pc a static ip address..like 192.168.1.90(for linksys).  The port forwarding is forwarding to IP address.  If you have DHCP enabled on the router and all the machines its possible that the IP addresses have shuffled..and the port forwarding is going to the same IP address, but that address was reassigned to another machine besides yours.

[Fatah Ruark (aka MIKE B)]

Plus I would assign your pc a static ip address..like 192.168.1.90(for linksys).  The port forwarding is forwarding to IP address.  If you have DHCP enabled on the router and all the machines its possible that the IP addresses have shuffled..and the port forwarding is going to the same IP address, but that address was reassigned to another machine besides yours.

That's what I was going to say. Now I have all of the IP addresses that get assigned to the four computers in my house set up for BT.

How do I make MY computer have a static IP. I'd love to do that. I'm running a Linksys too.

Thanks,
MIKE B

[Cooker]

Mike in your PC's networking settings, uncheck "obtain an IP address automatically" and set the IP to one in your range, i usually do like 192.168.0.69 -  and set the subnet mask to 255.255.255.0  and set the gateway to 192.168.0.1
depending on your OS, it may or may not let you leave "obtain a dns server automatically" checked after you unchecked the IP setting. if it doesn't, go on to your ISP's tech support website and poke around for their DNS server addresses.