Azureus port

[Boppy]

Have been downloading some torrents but making very little progress. DL
speed is onIy around 1.2kBs most of the time and the ETA for a 2 gig
file is 9 days at this rate.
I can only get the yellow face which means I "am connected to peers,
the tracker is okay but I don't have a remote connection and may have
NAT issues". The help file suggests I change my port from 31012 which
was automatically assigned when I installed the program. They suggest
visiting here to choose a port:
http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php?title=Why_ports_like_6881_are_no_good_choice
or here
http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers.
My ISP is Xtra - do I need to get their suggestion, or does anyone here
know what port number I should be using?
I don't have a firewall and my AV software is AVG Free.
Thanks in advance for any advice offered.
B

[Chris Hope]

Post by Boppy
Have been downloading some torrents but making very little progress.
DL speed is onIy around 1.2kBs most of the time and the ETA for a 2
gig file is 9 days at this rate.
I can only get the yellow face which means I "am connected to peers,
the tracker is okay but I don't have a remote connection and may have
NAT issues". The help file suggests I change my port from 31012 which
was automatically assigned when I installed the program. They suggest

http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php?title=Why_ports_like_6881_are_no_good_choice

Post by Boppy
or here
http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers.
My ISP is Xtra - do I need to get their suggestion, or does anyone
here know what port number I should be using?
I don't have a firewall and my AV software is AVG Free.
Thanks in advance for any advice offered.

I was having the exact same issue when I started using bittorrent. After
a bit of searching, I discovered what you need to do is configure your
router to forward connections for that port number to your computer. As
soon as I did this I started getting excellent download speeds.

[Boppy]

Thanks for the suggestion Chris. I've found some advice on this subject
here: http://www.portforward.com/help/pfprogression.htm but if you have
a better suggestion of where to look, I'd be grateful.
B

[steve]

Post by Chris Hope
I was having the exact same issue when I started using bittorrent. After
a bit of searching, I discovered what you need to do is configure your
router to forward connections for that port number to your computer. As
soon as I did this I started getting excellent download speeds.

...and if you have multiple computers, forward a different port to each one
and configure the software on each machine to talk on the port you assigned
to that machine.

I have set 3 ranges on my router - each forwarded to a single IP address I
have associated with a given range on one system.

That way, several systems can use Bittorrent (or other P2P client) at the
same time.....and then your problem will be contention for bandwidth
between the systems if they are used for P2P at the same time.

[m***@yahoo.com]

Post by Boppy
Have been downloading some torrents but making very little progress. DL
speed is onIy around 1.2kBs most of the time and the ETA for a 2 gig
file is 9 days at this rate.
I can only get the yellow face which means I "am connected to peers,
the tracker is okay but I don't have a remote connection and may have
NAT issues". The help file suggests I change my port from 31012 which
was automatically assigned when I installed the program. They suggest
http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php?title=Why_ports_like_6881_are_no_good_choice
or here
http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers.
My ISP is Xtra - do I need to get their suggestion, or does anyone here
know what port number I should be using?
I don't have a firewall and my AV software is AVG Free.
Thanks in advance for any advice offered.
B

Hi Boppy...As Chris says, nine times out of ten the problem you've
described can be remedied by opening the ports on your router.
Instructions for configuring most routers can be found on
http://portforward.com/default.htm

You don't say what torrent software you're using but I'm guessing
azureus cos of the wiki link you gave. With respect to azureus and it's
users, have you considered using uTorrent. Incredibly easy to setup and
a miniscule footprint as compared to azureus which can be a bit of a
hog.

Then again, if azureus works for you that's really all that matters.

Regards
Miguel

[m***@yahoo.com]

Post by m***@yahoo.com
You don't say what torrent software you're using

Sorry Boppy, I meant what version of azureus you're using :-)

Regards
Miguel

[Gordon]

Post by m***@yahoo.com

Post by m***@yahoo.com
You don't say what torrent software you're using

Sorry Boppy, I meant what version of azureus you're using :-)

Would it not be the latest. One of the first things the blue frog does is
to check for updates of its self and if there is one, one gets it.

[Boppy]

Thanks guys, this is really frustrating.

I have followed all the portforward.com directions carefully and got
into the Dlink setup programme. It told me to click on advanced/virtual
server tabs, which I did. However, then I was told in a Javascript
application that I need to enter an IP address and password and it
flicks me straight back to the Lan Clients tab. I phoned Xtra and got a
guy who couldn't help because it shouldn't be doing that, so he told me
he had to transfer me to D-link but of course they are closed on the
weekend and won't be open apart from when I am at work and can't be in
front of the computer.

I am now downloading uTorrent and hopefully won't have the same port
problems.

[Boppy]

This is the screen that won't let me click Virtual Server:
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Post by Boppy
Thanks guys, this is really frustrating.
I have followed all the portforward.com directions carefully and got
into the Dlink setup programme. It told me to click on advanced/virtual
server tabs, which I did. However, then I was told in a Javascript
application that I need to enter an IP address and password and it
flicks me straight back to the Lan Clients tab. I phoned Xtra and got a
guy who couldn't help because it shouldn't be doing that, so he told me
he had to transfer me to D-link but of course they are closed on the
weekend and won't be open apart from when I am at work and can't be in
front of the computer.
I am now downloading uTorrent and hopefully won't have the same port
problems.

[Boppy]

uTorrent is no better - the port it needs is also closed. Grr.

Post by Boppy
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Post by Boppy
Thanks guys, this is really frustrating.
I have followed all the portforward.com directions carefully and got
into the Dlink setup programme. It told me to click on advanced/virtual
server tabs, which I did. However, then I was told in a Javascript
application that I need to enter an IP address and password and it
flicks me straight back to the Lan Clients tab. I phoned Xtra and got a
guy who couldn't help because it shouldn't be doing that, so he told me
he had to transfer me to D-link but of course they are closed on the
weekend and won't be open apart from when I am at work and can't be in
front of the computer.
I am now downloading uTorrent and hopefully won't have the same port
problems.

[Richard]

Post by Boppy
uTorrent is no better - the port it needs is also closed. Grr.

All ports are closed unless you setup a forward on the router. Thats the nature
of being stuck behind a NAT.

[Boppy]

Yes, the point of my post is to find out how to open the port/set up
the forward.

Post by Richard

Post by Boppy
uTorrent is no better - the port it needs is also closed. Grr.

All ports are closed unless you setup a forward on the router. Thats the nature
of being stuck behind a NAT.

[Gordon]

Post by Boppy
Yes, the point of my post is to find out how to open the port/set up
the forward.

Get to the router via the web interface and look thru the menus. Keyword
NAT and port forwarding.

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

Post by Gordon

Post by Boppy
Yes, the point of my post is to find out how to open the port/set up
the forward.

Get to the router via the web interface and look thru the menus. Keyword
NAT and port forwarding.

On one of my clients' ADSL routers, it's called "Virtual Server". Another
term I've heard used is "pinholing".

[Peter Huebner]

Subject: Re: Azureus port
Newsgroups: nz.comp
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Yes, presumably that is where you enter the IP address of the computer that is
running the torrent application, and it's name on the network (the name may be
irrelevant in fact). The router obviously needs to know which machine to
forward the port to ...

Right click on the network icon on your desktop, chose properties, and you will
be able to retrieve the ip number your computer currently uses on the lan.

-P.

[m***@yahoo.com]

Post by Peter Huebner
Yes, presumably that is where you enter the IP address of the computer that is
running the torrent application, and it's name on the network (the name may be
irrelevant in fact). The router obviously needs to know which machine to
forward the port to ...
Right click on the network icon on your desktop, chose properties, and you will
be able to retrieve the ip number your computer currently uses on the lan.

Hi again Boppy....What Peter H says is right. Setting up a static ip is
one of the things that stumped me when I was getting into p2p but it
has to be done.

If you haven't already come across it, here's a link which might help
you out...

http://portforward.com/networking/staticip.htm

In my case, in Step 9 I called my computer 192.168.0.101 and then that
was the static ip address I gave when configuring my router.

HTH. If not can you tell us what your setup is e.g d-link router model
and OS

Regards
Miguel

[Mad.Mutt]

Post by Boppy
Thanks guys, this is really frustrating.
I have followed all the portforward.com directions carefully and got
into the Dlink setup programme. It told me to click on advanced/virtual
server tabs, which I did. However, then I was told in a Javascript
application that I need to enter an IP address and password and it
flicks me straight back to the Lan Clients tab. I phoned Xtra and got a
guy who couldn't help because it shouldn't be doing that, so he told me
he had to transfer me to D-link but of course they are closed on the
weekend and won't be open apart from when I am at work and can't be in
front of the computer.
I am now downloading uTorrent and hopefully won't have the same port
problems.

Try using ADMIN as your password.

uTorrent is great, but you MUST poke some sort of hole through the
router for it to function well... port forwarding / virtual servers...
whatever will work.

I've been a tad naughty, and have assigned a very low port number, but
am getting brilliant results (even seem to be beating the throttling of
the data cap... he, he heeee - currently 18kB/s while supposed to be
capped to 8kB/s - sweeeet!!!)

[Gordon]

Post by Boppy
Have been downloading some torrents but making very little progress. DL
speed is onIy around 1.2kBs most of the time and the ETA for a 2 gig
file is 9 days at this rate.
I can only get the yellow face which means I "am connected to peers,
the tracker is okay but I don't have a remote connection and may have
NAT issues".

How many seeds do you have? Seeds are need, as in if you have 50 peers and
10,000 slices of the file it is unlikely that all the peers have all the
10,000 slices between them.

BTW see, why one should continue seeding after you have all the file?