Torrent Ports

V-PV-P State College, PA Member
edited January 2007 in Science & Tech
I'm just starting to use torrents and it seems my speed is really being effected by the ports that are closed on my router. I took random torrents from isohunt, with as many seeders as I could find, and the speed still refuses to go above 20 kb/s. I don't have access to my router for a few days, so I can't open any ports, but I remember opening some ports in the past for steam and such, so those should still be open. Now I have Azerues and I tried a lot of different commonly open ports and none of them seem to work. It keeps getting a NAT error, which I know is a firewall of some sort on the router, or the thing that keeps track of ports. So my question is, what port can I use with Azerues to not get the error, or open ports wirelessly. This is my wireless setup:

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  • PterocarpousPterocarpous Rosie the Riveter Lives On in CA, USA! New
    edited December 2006
    These links may help.

    http://azureus.sourceforge.net/doc/Azureus%20User%20Guide.htm
    http://dessent.net/btfaq/
  • V-PV-P State College, PA Member
    edited December 2006
    Well that tells me that I need to forward some ports, and which ports I need to forward, but not how to forward them. See normally, I would wire my PC straight to the SMC and I could login and forward the ports I needed to, then logout and connect back to Netgear, but my PC is not close enough to the SMC to do this anymore. So I need to wirelessly connect to Netgear, and login into the SMC and do it that way. I hope you understand, look at the picture. How would I login to the SMC.
  • nonstop301nonstop301 51° 27' 24.87" N // 0° 11' 38.91" W Member
    edited December 2006
    I can't see why you can't login wirelessly as administrator to the netgear router and open the ports that are necessary. Are the ports on the netgear router already forwarded for Azureus ?
  • V-PV-P State College, PA Member
    edited December 2006
    Well, first, I forgot the username for my Netgear, which is still default, so it shouldn't be hard to find, but second, I need to forward the ports on the SMC, and I can't find a way to logon to it through the netgear.
  • PterocarpousPterocarpous Rosie the Riveter Lives On in CA, USA! New
    edited December 2006
    V|P wrote:
    Well, first, I forgot the username for my Netgear, which is still default, so it shouldn't be hard to find, but second, I need to forward the ports on the SMC, and I can't find a way to logon to it through the netgear.

    Default for most Netgear routers is UN: admin & PWD: password (or none)

    Re: port forwarding:
    You'll need a (LAN) static IP for port forwarding to work. You can set this at your computer or on the router.

    If you'd rather keep your computer's IP config set to Dynamic, you can reserver a LAN IP for your computer in the router config. To do this you use the wireless MAC address of your computer's wireless NIC and associate it w/ a particular IP address (out of the DHCP range). You can do this w/ most newer Netgear routers now.

    Otherwise, you can set your computer's IP to a static address (not included in the DHCP range).

    In any case, you forward the port(s) to that IP (in the router config).
  • CycloniteCyclonite Tampa, Florida Icrontian
    edited December 2006
    Is the SMC a router/modem or something?
  • PterocarpousPterocarpous Rosie the Riveter Lives On in CA, USA! New
    edited December 2006
    I was wondering the same thing. SMC is a manufacturer. What equipment/device is it?
  • V-PV-P State College, PA Member
    edited December 2006
    Pterocarpous wrote:
    I was wondering the same thing. SMC is a manufacturer. What equipment/device is it?
    It's a modem I believe. Anyway, I found out I'm connecting to my linksys not my netgear, but the setup is still about the same. I logged onto the linksys, opened the proper ports, still getting the NAT error, so it has to be the SMC, and I have opened ports on the SMC before.
  • PterocarpousPterocarpous Rosie the Riveter Lives On in CA, USA! New
    edited December 2006
    V|P wrote:
    It's a modem I believe. Anyway, I found out I'm connecting to my linksys not my netgear, but the setup is still about the same. I logged onto the linksys, opened the proper ports, still getting the NAT error, so it has to be the SMC, and I have opened ports on the SMC before.

    Still not sure what your SMC device is. Is it your cable/DSL modem? (Does it have one RJ45 jack w/ an ethernet cable leading to the WAN port on your router?) If so, it is your cable/DSL modem. I don't see any need for you to do any configuration of it..... In fact, most consumer cable/modems you cannot configure. Higher end (e.g. business class) cable/dsl modems often double as routers in which case one can configure them (but the configuration is related to router functionality/settings).
  • CycloniteCyclonite Tampa, Florida Icrontian
    edited December 2006
    What IP address is the SMC giving your Linksys router? If it's a private IP, then you're probably double-NAT'ing. See if you can enable IP pass through on the SMC device.
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited December 2006
    If you're on a private LAN (e.g. at home) then you should turn on "Universal Plug and Play" or "UPnP" support in your client and on your router. That way, when you fire up your client it automagically opens the required ports, sets up forwarding, and closes them when you're done. If your Linksys router doesn't support UPnP then check the Linksys site for new firmware or consider investing in a new(er) router, like at Goodwill.

    Cyclonite is right though, if your SMC broadband modem is serving out private IPs then you're screwed. Odds are you probably don't have admin rights on it (your ISP does) so you'll need to talk to them if you want the ports opened.

    -drasnor :fold:
  • V-PV-P State College, PA Member
    edited January 2007
    drasnor wrote:
    If you're on a private LAN (e.g. at home) then you should turn on "Universal Plug and Play" or "UPnP" support in your client and on your router. That way, when you fire up your client it automagically opens the required ports, sets up forwarding, and closes them when you're done. If your Linksys router doesn't support UPnP then check the Linksys site for new firmware or consider investing in a new(er) router, like at Goodwill.

    Cyclonite is right though, if your SMC broadband modem is serving out private IPs then you're screwed. Odds are you probably don't have admin rights on it (your ISP does) so you'll need to talk to them if you want the ports opened.

    -drasnor :fold:
    Thanks a lot for trying guys, but I updated the firmware and that threw out the internet connection and we've been doing renovations, so we moved the computer right next to the SMC, so now it's all good. I enabled this as the DMZ host, and opened a port for Torrents. Ill let you know if I see any speed increases.
  • PterocarpousPterocarpous Rosie the Riveter Lives On in CA, USA! New
    edited January 2007
    V|P wrote:
    Thanks a lot for trying guys, but I updated the firmware and that threw out the internet connection and we've been doing renovations, so we moved the computer right next to the SMC, so now it's all good. I enabled this as the DMZ host, and opened a port for Torrents. Ill let you know if I see any speed increases.
    Glad you got it working V|P.

    Though it shoudn't have, updating your router's firmware probably reset it back to the factory default settings. In which case, it would need to be reconfigured.

    I'd be careful w/ DMZ, though. I'd enable it only when I needed it then disable it. It's far safer to use the port forwarding than to leave yourself wide open by setting your computer's IP as a DMZ.

    BTW, s-t-i-l-l don't know what the "SMC" is? SMC is a manufacturer. What is the device? Does it have (if your ISP is DSL) a phone line connected to it? ....or, if your ISP is a broadband service, does it have a coaxial cable connected to it? If so, it's your broadband modem and the mystery is solved! :nudge::D
  • V-PV-P State College, PA Member
    edited January 2007
    Pterocarpous wrote:
    Glad you got it working V|P.

    Though it shoudn't have, updating your router's firmware probably reset it back to the factory default settings. In which case, it would need to be reconfigured.

    I'd be careful w/ DMZ, though. I'd enable it only when I needed it then disable it. It's far safer to use the port forwarding than to leave yourself wide open by setting your computer's IP as a DMZ.

    BTW, s-t-i-l-l don't know what the "SMC" is? SMC is a manufacturer. What is the device? :nudge:
    It's a modem. I will turn of DMZ, no significant speed increase. I retried different settings and everything, but the Linksys wouldn't work, then I tried it by putting it right next to the modem and using a shorter cable and it worked. I guess I should blame the 200+ ft cable then.
  • PterocarpousPterocarpous Rosie the Riveter Lives On in CA, USA! New
    edited January 2007
    V|P wrote:
    It's a modem. I will turn of DMZ, no significant speed increase. I retried different settings and everything, but the Linksys wouldn't work, then I tried it by putting it right next to the modem and using a shorter cable and it worked. I guess I should blame the 200+ ft cable then.

    200 feet? That is long, however, it should have been able to handle it w/o too much signal loss.
    You may have had a bad cable.

    http://www.homenethelp.com/web/explain/maximum-cable-length.asp

    Twisted Pair Ethernet, 10baseT
    Speed: 10 Mbps
    Max Length: 100 Meters (3.2808 * 100 = ~ 328 feet)
    Cable: UTP, RJ-45 connectors

    Fast Ethernet, 100baseT
    Speed: 100 Mbps
    Max Length: 100 Meters
    Cable: UTP, RJ-45 connectors

    A Little Nugget:
    When communicating w/ folks re: your equipment, it's best, for the sake of clarity, to refer to the equipment by its function rather than its manufacturer. (e.g. "broadband modem" as opposed to "SMC" and "router" as opposed to "Linksys".) The reason for this is the manufacturers each produce more than one type of device. :cool2:

    If you still want to tackle the port forwarding, let us know, ok?
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