Port Forwarding (Madness!)

Life Technology
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Do any of you have experience forwarding a port? Can anyone help me forward a port?

I use Utorrent to obtain files and such. There seems to be a built in firewall through our router. (we use cable internet).

I need to open up a designated port = Port Forwarding. To do this I need to have access to our ISP router net site. I have no Idea what this is.

Back in the states I had a Linksys router and, if I remember correctly the address for my router was my IP address + some kind of Linksys web address.

The router we are using now (in Taiwan) is old and does not have a name on it. I have no idea what the brand is. However our ISP is Hinet.

***I have Googled this to death. There is a useful site called portforward.com , but they only offer assistance for routers sold in the USA.

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You shouldn’t need any details from Hinet.
Assuming your using windows, and have it set to automaticly assign IP, and that it is a fairly stock router,
Click on Start, Run. Type in cmd .
You should now have a DOS window open with a C:>
Type ipconfig /all

You should see an IP address like this : 192.168.0.XXX or 192.168.1.XXX
The x’s don’t really matter in this case. To access the router the first 3 sets are the one you need.
The XXX number is your machine.
Open a web browser window, type in 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1, or whatever your reading was from the first step, but change the XXX to 0. [color=red]Edit, sorry, should be 1[/color].
You should get a login window, try admin, password blank or 0000
This is usually the default, but if whoever set it up changed it , then your screwed.
If you can get to the router setup screen, you can setup a virtual server and open up the port that you need.

Or, as cheap as routers are now, and if that port is important to you, you can buy one with the manual and setup instructions.

HTH

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I’m not sure what you mean by “ISP router”. Do you mean a router your ISP (Hinet) provided to you, or do you mean a router at the ISP (not at your house)?

I have Hinet, and they gave us a 4-port ADSL modem. I went out and bought a cheap D-Link ADSL router and plugged it into that, then our computers into the D-Link. The D-Link takes care of logging in through the modem, reconnecting when HiNet shuts us off every 24 hours, and such.

The D-Link has a web control panel that you access via its local IP address (in our case, 192.168.1.2). That lets you set up port forwarding – you specify the port (uTorrent will tell you which ones you need), and the local IP address of the computer you want to forward it to (eg, 192.168.1.3 for my desktop). And you’re done.

My advice is not to use the ADSL modem provided by HiNet for anything other than plugging an ADSL router into, 4 ports or no 4 ports.

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I presume that you are actually using a router and not connecting directly to the DSL modem, so just to clarify what bobl was saying:

What you’re looking for are the details in the blue boxes. The first is your computer’s IP address, the second is (most likely) your router’s. First try straight typing the second into your browser’s address bar. If that doesn’t work, try using the first, but change the last section (the bit blanked out in the image) to 0, 255, 254, or 1 - contrary to bobl’s post, there is no guarantee it’ll be 0; the four listed above are likely to have it covered. If that’s worked, you should get some form of login screen/dialog box. Presumably you’re not the person who sorted the router out, so you’ll likely have to ask them for the login details, because anyone remotely competent will have changed them right away. Otherwise try logging in as ‘admin’ with the password ‘admin’ or blank. From there, the instructions will change with different brands of router. If this much succeeds and you don’t have any luck, let us know what you get at this point.

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Thanks all for your help. My port is now correctly forwarded for Utorrent and I have that blissfull little green smiley face at the bottom of the Utorrent screen.

Now all I have to do is figure out how to tweak Utorrent to get some faster download speeds. The highest I seem to get is 20 - 30 Kb/s :frowning:

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What OS are you running?
If it’s XP and service pack 2 then you are restricted to 10 half-open connections, which is fine if everyone’s sharing at 20k.
But if people are choking their upload rate back to 1k or 500b/s, then those 10 connections are a waste of time.
There is a patch to fix this though, Google for EvID4226Patch223d or check out http://www.lvllord.de/?lang=en&url=downloads
This patch allows you to increase the number of half-open connections up to 100.
20-30k is still a respectable d/l rate, but on occasions I have exceeded 200k through 50+ half-open connections.
There is no simple cure for faster d/l, a lot depends on the number of people sharing and if they are choking the d/l or not

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[quote=“PeteDa”]What OS are you running?
If it’s XP and service pack 2 then you are restricted to 10 half-open connections, which is fine if everyone’s sharing at 20k.
But if people are choking their upload rate back to 1k or 500b/s, then those 10 connections are a waste of time.
There is a patch to fix this though, Google for EvID4226Patch223d or check out http://www.lvllord.de/?lang=en&url=downloads
This patch allows you to increase the number of half-open connections up to 100.
20-30k is still a respectable d/l rate, but on occasions I have exceeded 200k through 50+ half-open connections.
There is no simple cure for faster d/l, a lot depends on the number of people sharing and if they are choking the d/l or not

My system is running on Vista Ultimate.
I watched my download speed jump to 50-ish kb/s and stay steady today. I guess I should be happy with that.
Thanks again for the help!