Torrents (legal) Eircom Braodband

hello

I just got eircom broadband with a netopia 2247 router. I download legal Torrents alot but i cant seem to get connected with this router. I have gone through port forwarding .

What i am thiking is it that i need a static IP , if so how do i make one ? Is making a static IP possible ?

Has anybody got any tips ?

KdjaCL

You dont need a static IP or a port opened depending on what program you use.

Seom programs dont req ports opened,


What program you using?


kdjac

Karoma

...legal...torrents... *tries to get head around this* (j/k)

You don't need a static IP address.
Is port forwarding set up right - test? What client are you using? Check or post error logs.

Sorry , i forgot to mention that i am using utorrent. But i cant get the speeds over 25, and i am showing as unconnectable.

galactus

Dre as in Dray wrote:

Sorry , i forgot to mention that i am using utorrent. But i cant get the speeds over 25, and i am showing as unconnectable.

If you're seeing speeds of 25 or so it must be working.

The torrent you are trying to download proably doesn't have any seeds or peers at the moment. What does uTorrent show you for seeds/peers?

There are peers and there are thousands of seeders. i moved to a new apartment , i used to download at a steady 300 now its 25

projectmayhem

have you set up port forwarding on the router?

I have done the port forwarding yes. This is the thing , what IP address do i use with port forwarding ? if i check my IP address in inconfig/all i get 192.168.1.2 but then when i go to check my IP on portforward.com i get an IP begining with 8 ? ?

aidan_walsh

Use the 192 address, thats the address of the computer on the network behind the router. The 8 address is the address given to the router by your ISP.

Hobbes

Obvious answer is that you probably have a firewall running at some point.

Also could be the 10 connection limit if your using XP.

Anti

Do what aiden says, hes 100% right, also drop utorrent and download bitcomet. This is much easier to use. and can automaticially handle port forwarding. You can also changet the listening port. i find chaning this can increase speeds, esp when you have lots of seeders.

Auvers

anti wrote:

also drop utorrent and download bitcomet.

Noooo dont do it!!! bitcomet is a piece of sh1t, utorrent is the best and azureus is next best

About your problem as posted earlier its probably your firewall, are you using bitdefender by any chance?

Thomas_S_Hunterson

Auvers wrote:

Noooo dont do it!!! bitcomet is a piece of sh1t,

seconded

-oRnein9-

Sorry for the hijack, just wondering how I disable my windows xp firewall?

L31mr0d

sean_keevey wrote:

seconded

thirdeded!

i've tried most torrent clients out there and utorrent is the most portable (runs from the exe) and easy to use and set up. Uses nearly no system resources and keeps me entertained whilst waiting for my legal downloads to finish, by going into "help/about utorrent" and pressing "T" on the keyboard (try it )

What netopia router do you have? I have the 3347WG from Netopia, and what I have to do is go into "custom services" at http://192.168.1.254/ (or "expert mode/configure/advanced/NAT") and enable "static NAT" as well as setting up the needed forwarded ports in this section.

What exactly are you doing to forward your ports?

BigEejit

dont most clients these days support upnp? ... turn it on in the router and in the client and youre set

Dundalk Daily

Where is the best place to find a users guide to utorrent. I use it but not what Im doing and I find alot of it way over my head with all the jargon etc, I dont even know how to tell my speeds. Please help

quaidox

i thought that port forwarding is only required if you have more than one computer is use attached to the router. if only one pc is being used, why bother with port forwarding? utorrent works fine for me (ntl cable modem directly attached to pc) and i didn't have to do anything with port forwarding. speeds aren't great, but it works!

Makaveli

-oRnein9- wrote:

Sorry for the hijack, just wondering how I disable my windows xp firewall?

Control Panel > Windows Firewall and then just disable it.

-oRnein9-

Makaveli wrote:

Control Panel > Windows Firewall and then just disable it.

AH I know but I am getting a message in utorrent logger that reads
[16:01:18] Error opening Windows firewall: 0x80040154

CiaranC

speeds aren't great, but it works!

It will work without port forwarding, but at a fraction of the speed it would if you had it set up correctly.

snappieT

quaidox wrote:

i thought that port forwarding is only required if you have more than one computer is use attached to the router. if only one pc is being used, why bother with port forwarding

Security. If the router just forwarded every port onto the computer, you wouldn't get this benefit.

I'm sure some cheaper routers (*cough* Buffalo, Belkin) are a bit retarded and don't cop that only one computer is connected in the first place.

irlrobins

I hate it when people drag up dead threads....

snappieT

OK, wtf, this appeared on the first page of the Computers & Technology listing.

Sorry!

confetti

open the eircom bb connection shortcut on your desktop and try changing the eircom firewall settings to low, it's defaulted at medium

FastFullBack

Dre as in Dray wrote:

There are peers and there are thousands of seeders. i moved to a new apartment , i used to download at a steady 300 now its 25

What speed broadband did you have to download at steady 300?

Have a 4mb down 256 up and the most I ever get is 100 down and this rarely lasts. Average is about 50. I've read all the guides about settings and try to stick to them but never get about average 50 really.

Makaveli

The Eircom 3Mb package will give you 250KBs - 300KBs if the peers have decent connections.

irlrobins

Guys, OLD thread. Let it die....

userod

irlrobins wrote: »

Guys, OLD thread. Let it die....

Poor thread....

aidan_walsh

Funny.

Let's see this one come back now.