Port forwarding not working

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Im currently running XP with a Linksys WRT54G router. I have the port forwarding set up from 6881-6999 but Im still seeing download rates of 10-14 kbs. Im using the Azureus bit torrent cliet. Anyone have a suggestion?

[stos289]

Well, if you are sure you port forwarded correctly, there could be other factors that effect you download rate. If you have very few seeders, then you will get download speeds like 10-14. Also, other software firewalls (XP, Norton, etc.) could effect the download rate. You would need to port forward or turn of the firewall to help Bittorrent's download rate. Hope I could help.

[complich8]

I'll go a bit further to say .... make sure either your winxp firewall is off (less recommended) or that you open the ports in it too (more recommended). Make sure that if you've got other firewall software, it's allowing the traffic.

Another thing to consider is your actual upload speed. It could be that your upload is choking your download. Azureus is pretty good about that, but you might want to verify in its configuration that it doesn't think your connection is bigger than it is.

A nice thing about Azureus is it has a feature that lets you test to make sure your configured ports work. Go through the config wizard and when you specify the ports, check to make sure the start port works. If it does, sweet. If it doesn't, that'll tell you there's some sort of problem that's preventing you from doing what you want to do. Also make sure you're using the most recent version (open source is like that ... constant bugfixes and such).

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Well aparently I got it workin now. I had opened the ports for 2 computers and when I closed them for the second all of a sudden I jumped from 10-14 kbs to 50-90 kbs. I have no I dea why that effected it but somehow did.

[complich8]

generally if you introduce conflicting port forwards in your router, bad things happen.

Depending on the router's implementation, it might forward to both (not entirely desirable), or it might only forward to the second one specified, or it might detect a ruleset conflict and decide not to guess, and instead simply drop the packets it would be forwarding.

If you want to forward port ranges to two separate computers, you will probably need to pick two non-overlapping port ranges. Like my setup has 3 computers that might use bitttorrent, so we've got 6881-6989 forwarded to one computer (not that we'll ever use 100+ torrent ports at the same time). We've got 6990-7100 forwarded to the second computer, and 7101-7200 forwarded to the third. By specifying the port range ot listen on in your client, you have complete freedom which ports your bittorrent client listens on -- though it's highly recommended that you avoid the first 1080 or so ports, and you be aware of any services you may be running.

To specify the port range in azureus, just go through the config wizard, it'll ask you for a starting port. Generally if you give it 20-30 ports or more after the starting port to choose from, it'll do fine with that. The 6881-6999 thing is just the "default" range, it doesn't mean a thing in the grand scheme of things and it doesn't matter too much what you set it to.