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Broadband routers??

Branners · 2005-09-17 23:39:16

Hi all i was hoping somebody could help me with this problem. I recently bought a wirless netopia modem and I'm only a computer amature really, I joined up to the Bit Torrent site and was trying to dowload but i was unssuccessful, now i was told i have to open up my routers in order to download???? Can somebody advise me…

18-09-2005 12:39am

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Branners

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Hi all i was hoping somebody could help me with this problem.
I recently bought a wirless netopia modem and I'm only a computer amature really, I joined up to the Bit Torrent site and was trying to dowload but i was unssuccessful, now i was told i have to open up my routers in order to download????

Can somebody advise me on opening up my routers?

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#2 20-09-2005 2:18am

Rattlehead_ie

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what you want to do is find out what port(s) that Bittorrent use, I think its
6881-6999.
So what you have to do is go to your Netopia admin page,usually
http://192.168.1.254 and look for port forwarding or Services(choose custome service)
[HTML]http://broadbandsupport.eircom.net/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBCGI.EXE/,/?St=38,E=0000000000031212669,K=9454,Sxi=15,Case=obj(1021)[/HTML]

that link might help you(its for xbox live) might help you.

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#3 20-09-2005 10:39am

tomk

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If you're posting a link, why not make it clickable ?

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