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Old 2005-08-30, 08:39 AM
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Re: Firewall Frustration

I have found the big problem to be that people do not configure their router correctly for port forwarding.

You need to go into the port forwarding page and forward the ports you have assigned to your BT client. It does not matter what range you use (6881- or 55200-), but they must match in the router. You need to tell the router to forward that range of TCP to the IP address you got when you did your ipconfig cmd (in your case, 192.168.115.xxx). The problem people can run into is that if you have a LAN with multiple pcs connected to that router, when you reboot your pcs, you may get a different IP assigned. That is why you must assign static ips to each pc, which is done by going into the network properties/tcpip setup on the pc and assigning a unique ip address to each pc on the lan (boot up one at a time, to avoid conflicts). You will also need to assign DNS server addresses, so make a note of them at the ipconfig /all info screen.

You will then need to shut down all pcs and reboot the router, then bring them back up.

As stated, you do not have to enter any ip address in the BT client.

That should do it, but if you need help configuring IPs or have other questions, ask.

Here is the above info again that I had posted in another place:

Get a green light and you will get better speed up and down; good for you, good for the community, good for your ratio!

It's not that hard, folks. Follow the guidelines for setting the ports used by your client to match the ports you forward in your router.

I will share the one important step that most of these FAQs overlook:

If you have more than one pc on a router (and you probably do, or else why have a router - except as another firewall), then you must make sure that you are forwarding the ports to the pc you are using for your BT.

If you open a cmd prompt (Start/Run/cmd [enter]), and type ipconfig /all
(while in here, make a note of your DNS server addresses which you will need later if/when you set up static IPs)

you will see the address assigned to your pc. That is the one you need to forward ports to!

The catch to the above is that if you shut down pcs on your LAN, the next time you boot up, your IP will probably change.

The way around that is to assign static IPs to your pcs:

Under Network Properties/Internet Protocol Properties, instaed of 'Obtain an IP Address Automatically', click on 'Use the Following IP Address' and assign something like 192.168.1.101 (following the guidelines to conform to your router's IP assignments. You will then probably need to also assign DNS server addresses. Aren't you glad you wrote them down before?

Please ask for more detailed help, and you will get it. If you get your router manual (available online), you can do it.

Aiko
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