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daninkorea · Joined: 06 Sep 2005 Location: Seoul

Hi guys,

I've been looking at bit torrent info on the web and have been trying to do this "port forwarding"thing. I have heard that it speeds up your download and uploads significantly, is this true? Are there any drawdacks?

Some of the websites have lists of the routers(? - the thing that connects my PC to the net) but not the one I have in Korea (net & sys) and I can't quite figure how it all works.

Also I use ABC as my client. Has anyone had any problems with this as it seems to max out my CPU sometimes...... any other client recomendations?

Cheers

Dan

ps -as you can tell I am not a technophile so keep it simple!!!!

Giant · Joined: 14 May 2003 Location: South Korea

I dont think port fowarding is going to speed anything up. All port fowarding does is foward a specific external TCP port to an internal IP that you specify.

You would do this in case of hosting a game server for example. This is of course if you are using a router at home so that your internal IP is something like 192.168.1.2.

So you would need to go into the setup of your router to set it up, but in your case talking about BT, you dont need to do anything. Just lease a faster internet connection.

There are so many clients out there, and due to the nature of BT, the clients do take a lot of resource because of the way it shares what you have seeded. I do not use BT much, but on occasion I use exeem. I am sure there other better ones out there but I dont really care since exeem does it well enough.

Just my 2 cents on this issue.

BigBlackEquus · Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 8:46 pm Post subject:

Yeah, I don't think port forwarding will speed you up, unless your application has another, slower 'go around' way of connecting to the torrents. In that case, then opening the correct port will essentially make everything speed up to what it should be.

I just opened a port for my Shareaza program to work through my new router. Having a router essentially closes the ports (they are like doors that applications use to gain access to the outside world). Telling the router to open the port is like unlocking the door for that application to gain access to the outside world.

My Shareaza program will find other ways around to access the internet, but at a much, much slower rate if the port (door) is not open. So it's best to open the port.