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Tejaswy

I am new here and let me first thank the admin of this site for maintaining a wonderful foumr here...

Seriously guys you are the best....This is a world class forum

I wanted to ask you a couple of questions

I have a BSNL home 750 plan
i get a speed of 256 kbps....

I have Utorrent (mu) and the maximum download/upload speed i get is 22kbps

Is it normal??

And no, i get a yellow exclamation mark on the bottom of mu torrent instead od a green one.....but some times i do get a green one,......

Is ths normal.....

I read the manual on port forwarding.........But it did not really help me much

you guys said something about ip address of the modem.....Frankly that made me see pink elephants as i could not understand much on that regard

I have a semiens UT300RTU Adsl modem......

I would really like you to help me out here

Tejaswy

Lan settings
I read to this post....but din't really understand much.......
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Tejaswy

sorry for the third post..........my modem is utstar com not seimens

nisant666

your connection speed as told by you is 256kbps and in utorrent it shows in kBps and not in kbps. so assuming 22kBps your speed is 22*8=176 kbps. it is normal i think.

Tejaswy

So what about the yellow sign in u torrent

nisant666

i don't use utorrent for downloading. i am not sure what yellow sign is. how ever i assume that when the connectin is alright the sign will be green and when there is no connection at all it will be red. so yellow is something in between.

let us go little forward. what is the type of connection you have configured? bridge or pppoe? ie you've to input username and password every time you use net(bridge mode) or you are connected to net as soon as you switch on your modem?(pppoe mode).

if you are in the bridge mode, then in your firewall, go to exceptions and add utorrent there. this will stop utorrent being troubled by your firewall.

if you are in pppoe mode, then you've to do portforwarding. go through the other posts and you can do it. its not that tough.

all the best for a green sign.

regards
nisant

superprash2003

you need to port forward mate.. are you in bridged mode or ppoe mode?

just4kix

Thank you very much.

You are getting a speed less that maximum. The max that you will get is 32 KB/s with your connection. But speed also depends upon:

- how many torrent seeds are present
- how many active torrent downloads are existing
- are there any other parallel (file) downloads from other websites

You see that your bandwidth will be shared by all internet applications. For fastest torrent downloads, ensure that:

- you get a lot of seeds (you cannot do much about that but use trackers from sites such as mininova, piratebay, etc.
- do not do parellel downloads and surfing. Leave the torrent for downloading overnight.
- ensure port forwarding (see below)

This Yellow tick mark means that your port is not forwarded properly. It should be green. Refer to PortForward.com - Free Help Setting up Your Router or Firewall on how to port forward. Also there are many articles here on how to do it.

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Tejaswy

Well i went through the portforwarding tutorials....followed ever step of it..but the problem is here...
It wants me to login in to bsnl website and change some settings there.....i am not able to open bsnl website as i get a error message saying
[quote]
Forbidden

You don't have permission to access / on this server.
IBM_HTTP_Server/6.1.0.3 Apache/2.0.47 (Unix) PHP/5.2.1 Server at hosting.bsnl.in Port 80
[quote]
When ever i type 192.168.1.1
i get nothing...."this page cannot be displayed"

I use pppoe..which means thai i enter the usename and password evertime i need to log in

I have no firewall turned on

Anything else that you guys want to suggest?

just4kix

You do not need to access the BSNL site. The port must be opened on your own modem/router. You have to enable NAT-DMZ on your UT-300R2U modem.

There is many threads on the same topic on this forum - I am sure that you will find an answer.

whitestar_999

in your LAN TCP/IP settings set IP address as 192.168.1.x where x can be any no. between 3 to 253.e.g.192.168.1.4 also set default gateway as 192.168.1.1 & dns as automatic.now when you try 192.168.1.1 you should see a scrren asking for username/password.use admin/admin.

cshmech

Ok.. I use the same connection/plan as of the topic creator and face the same problem with utorrent. I read the 'Port forwarding' procedure and a bit confused.. I want tomake sure, b4 i try it, that it is safe,legal, it wont change any vital settings, and have a little doubt that.. suppose if u do the 'Port forwarding' for 1 software, will it affect the download speeds of others??

cshmech

What is a TCP and UDP ports??

cshmech

I dont Login & log out each time.. I ON my router and im connected to the net.. So Thats pppoe u were talkin about right??

whitestar_999

yes!that's pppoe.port forwarding won't affect download speed of other softwares if setup correctly.TCP & UDP are communication protocols & only thing you need to know is that any application accessing internet requires that the TCP/UDP communication is allowed at such ports which are then called open ports which that application use(e.g.ftp softwares use port 21).

cshmech

Now i have a big Problem.. My modem/router is UT300R2U/ADSL2+..
I cannot find this model anywhere.. And dunno how to port forward it.. I cant see a 'Virtual Service" in the "Advanced" Section..

If anybody knows the procedure Please brief it here...

whitestar_999

this model provided by bsnl don't have a virtual server option.in advanced setup go to NAT-DMZ & enter your PC's IP there(192.168.1.x).
Prashanth Speaks-Technology and Life: Port Forwarding In UT300R2U ADSL MODEM

cshmech

But, i heard that using DMZ can be dangerous..
Is there no way of Port Forwarding it..

whitestar_999

no port forwarding option is available in ut300r2u provided by bsnl.you have to use DMZ & yes its less secure but then if you use a good antivirus & firewall your security is as good as in pppoe mode.anyway it doesn't matter if you use pppoe or bridge/DMZ if you don't have good security softwares installed your computer will get infected sooner or later.

Tejaswy

SO where do i find DMZ option ?