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About LinkBackswhat is port forwarding...?
wat r the benefits of doing it....?
mention its drawbacks too....?
help on port forwarding what is port forwarding...?
wat r the benefits of doing it....?
mention its drawbacks too....?
Well don't know much about the technichalities but it is useful for increasing the torrent speeds.
port forwarding does not affect your speeds in a direct way. It only helps to connect you to more seeders/leechers.
More seeders/leechers = more speed but its only applicable in 95% cases.
how to do it....?
wil it affect my normal speed...?
For that you must tell details about your modem.....Originally Posted by ajas.nap
i got my modem from bsnl.....
its model is ut300r2u....
To get port forwarding for your modem make just go through this link...
Port_Forwarding UTStarcom UT-300R2U
Select the program from the list and follow the instructions to get port forwarded.
Please go through
http://www.indiabroadband.net/broadb...ing-guide.html
It is really informative. But when we open a port, we leave a door of our house open.
(1.)what is port forwarding...?
From what i think of port forwarding.....it is basically a technique (method) of opening a door (port)(a hole) in your router.....also opening a door (port)(a hole) in your firewall in order to allow a specific program access to the internet.
(2.)wat r the benefits of doing it....?
With reference to the post at hand...if u forward a port via your router as well as via firewall than the data sent and received through that port will not be obstructed and you will get the deserved speed for whatever u r downloading.... the speed of downloading in itself depends on various factors as type of torrent,seeds, leeches, ISP throttling bandwidth etc.
(3.)mention its drawbacks too....?
As mentioned by a member here before u r exposing urself by opening a door of your PC
@fms007,a little correction here: port forwarding means forwarding traffic coming on a particular port to a particular port on a particular PC or PC's inside a LAN using same public IP.
a technique (method) of opening a door (port)(a hole) in your router.....also opening a door (port)(a hole) in your firewall in order to allow a specific program access to the internet.Meaning is the same of what u have written...only explained it differently...see tried to explain to him in totally layman's termport forwarding means forwarding traffic coming on a particular port to a particular port on a particular PC or PC's inside a LAN using same public IP.
it's explained it differently
wat all measures shud b taken to overcome its defects...?
Use a good firewall. A good firewall can efficiently work while you download using torrents. I use Zone alarm.
Use a firewall which has stealthing capabilities, test whether u are visible/invisible on the net
http://www.grc.com/intro.htm
If you are using torrent client software use PG2 or if using utorrent use "Ipfilter List"
Close any unwanted open ports
Don't know much internals.. but the end result was that it has increased my torrent download speed from 40 KBps to 180 KBps.
Only because you are able to connect to more remote peers than before and they are able to connect to your pc.Don't know much internals.. but the end result was that it has increased my torrent download speed from 40 KBps to 180 KBps.
If the router is configured as a bridge, then there is no need to port forward as all ports are forwarded by default.
This is important sentence I picked up from "Torrents and Port Forward Guide"
Well I am asking "Is there anything to do more to use 'µTorrent' for downloading?"
you would need to open ports in your software firewall(like windows firewall)
forwarding port on bsnl type 192.168.1.1, on the left panel click on the 'advanced setup' link which drops down more links, click on NAT, on the DMZ Host IP Address: type 192.168.1.100
This will only work of ur ip address in your local area connection network setting is set to 192.168.1.100
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