Bittorrent problem

Tusky

nah , Im forwarding them to my i.p addy,

Good man Plazz, finally getting a green light!
I was in the same boat as Tusky all the time so here's my setup now, maybe you can get the green too:

Disabled XP firewall
Running Kerio Personal Firewall (thx mutant)
Router setup has only 1 rule and thats ports 5881 to 5999 on 192.168.1.33

Using BitTornado 0.3.1 (latest experimental build)
set port settings to 5881-5999

Try that Tusky and it might work, cuz I'm on IOL aswell with zyxel prestige 600, I think you're the same?

Ill give it a go thanks

ozmo

Originally posted by Tusky
I have forwarded all mentioned ports , im using Zone alarm and have turned off XP firewall but still the light is yellow would love to get this working

The XP Firewall is fine and is all I use. It is of course configurable.

Zone-alarm is junk - far too heavy and intrusive.

To configure XP Firewal - just press the Button "Settings" in the place where you can enable or disable the Firewal (in the Lan Properties). Add a new rule to allow the ports required to be forwarded.

I think Netsource used to block thes ports also, dont know if they still do - its no harm to change them by adding a thousand to all port numbers.

If you have a Ethernet router with Nat (and a broadband connection setup that you dont need winxp dialup to activate) then you dont need any firewall on the pc as the Nat in the router will do the job for you - just forward the ports via the web page.

Zenith74

Hellrazer - Log onto the Netopia router, go into Expert Mode, click Configure, click Advanced, click Pinholes, click Add, Fill in as follows -

Name - Whatever, Bittorrent makes sense
Protocol - TCP
External Start Port - 6881
External End Port - 6999
Internal IP Address - IP Address of your PC, such as 192.168.1.3
Internal Port - 6881

Hit Submit, a yellow warning triangle will appear in the top right of the screen, click it and select Save and Restart. Voila!


If you have a software firewall (Which you should!) like ZoneAlarm (Though I'd recommend Outpost as it supports block lists so you can attempt to hide your P2P ""activities"" from the likes of the RIAA etc.) you don't need to forward ports in it. When you first use your BitTorrent client (I'd recommend BitTornado) ZoneAlarm will pop up and ask wheter you want to let it through, just say Yes and remember this choice. Same goes for Outpost or any other software firewall.
The Windows XP firewall is off by default, so if you haven't turned it on it won't be the problem.

ozmo

Originally posted by Zenith74
The Windows XP firewall is off by default, so if you haven't turned it on it won't be the problem.

Its ON by default with some routers - mostly the USB type or the older eircom supplied ethernet dsl modems - basically any dsl box that can only do bridging and does not have PPoE built in and connects using the windows dialup connections.