I have a question for the computer geeks on here... some of which, i hope, are more educated than me in the ways of network troubleshooting. Here's my issue Im attempting to get my torrent programs to work without port forwarding issues. Currently I can attain speeds of about 380 kb/s. However, I am running a 12 m/b connection and should be atleast able to reach 1 mb/s on downloads, and this is quite frustrating. I have already forwarded the ports im using, 53000 in UDP and TCP on my 2wire modem, i have no other router to deal with in terms of port forwarding. In the torrent program I have port 53000 set. I've made sure both to make sure the program is allowed in windows firewall and I've even created seperate firewall allowances for the port in windows firewall under UDP and TCP ports. I've tried using both utorrent and vuze, both of which give me errors saying that the port is not open, although I've definitely opened it on both my router and firewall (I've even tried disabling windows firewall completely). Today I tried changing from a dynamic IP in my network settings to a static IP, which i found by running cmd > ipconfig / all and using the IP info displayed in there. This actually capped my speed to around 50 kb/s, which i found really unusual. If anyone can think of anything I am missing, i would appreciate it. At the moment i've kind of chalked this up to being that i'm using windows Vista, which is bullshit lol. I'm sure that the resultant NAT error from this problem is capping the potential of my torrent speeds significantly.
Just something upfront. I also have a 12Mbps line, but even with open ports I do not reach the full potential of my line with torrents (unless I download lots at the same time). For that I would need to use newsgroup binaries instead. Anyway here is my 2 cents regarding your issue ... - Which modem do you have ? I'm just wondering if we can find the manual online so we know what you can configure etc. Then we might be in a better position to help you out. - Does your modem have the possibility to log incoming / outgoing traffic ? If yes, then this might indicate where the problem is. - Use TCPView to see if your Torrent client is really listening on that port. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897437.aspx - What does the following page say ? http://www.canyouseeme.org/ - Can you try your torrent client with a port lower than 5000 ? Obviously changing the port forwarding accordingly. - You mention something about a NAT error at the end of your post ... did I miss something ? ... what error ? - I guess you tested this already, but are you able to reach 1MB/s with other applications ? Just want to check the obvious.
If your ports are forwarded and everything else runs at full speed, consider that your ISP may be throttling your bt/p2p traffic or connection in general My old ISP (although in UK) throttled my speed from 5pm to 12am every day.... [very good website to help with port forwarding http://portforward.com/]
I agree with dim8sum here, they are probably throttling your connection. I can't seem to think anything else that you could possibly check or do to fix this...
port forwarding is a bitch i gave up doing this, torrent is really annoying with ur ports are blocked i just sticks to DDL use rapidshare etc... i spent yours trying to config my ports never worked, always get a TCP error or ports are closed im doing a computer security degree here, got a topic on computer networking n hell, i didnt get a single lesson what he on about LOL thank god no assignments on that
im using a 2wire 2700HGV-B2 modem, and yes i can achieve very fast direct downloads. im fairly sure im not getting throttled by my ISP, they indicate that they don't throttle p2p. also vuze and utorrent both indicate that the port i have opened is actually closed. I tried that canyouseeme site and any port i try ends up with a 'connection refused due to time out' notice, including 53000. I might just give up on this one, its not really a huge deal anyway, 400 kb/s dl isn't completely terrible.
rarely have i hit 10Mb on torrents, the only place i see super high (10MB+) torrents is at uni and they have their own ISP so i guess it has something to do with your ISP, many of them lie... turn of your firewall, leave all the ports open and it wont make a difference for the most part. if your getting 500Kb atleast then your not doing bad
How about my other suggestions ? Did you verify that the torrent client is really listening on that port ? For all we know it might be a problem with opening a listening port on your PC (so nothing to do with the port forwarding). Also have you tried with a port lower than 5000 ? Just to be clear, I mean configure your torrent client to listen on ports LOWER than 5000. If you are a little knowledgable with TCP/IP, you can use a packet sniffer like Wireshark (http://www.wireshark.org) to see if the packets are actually arriving at your PC. Feel free to ask if you need help. And give up already ? We barely started. Come on, where is your spirit of adventure ? -detect P.S.: Maybe I should leave this up to hongkongboy, theoratically he should be the expert in this area ... lol
im on a 10mb cable and i rarely ever get anything more than 200ish kb/s =( i've just accepted the fact that i'm in the middle of nowhere (aussie) and that it takes ages b4 anything can get transported here... i guess it also depends on where u are located compared to where ur dl from if i dl from the isp sites, i easily get like 4mb/s but realistically =( sigh... i just know isp cap everything we want here >.<
Oh well, seems like you really gave up. I should have spared my brain power, lol (like last time with Dann !!!).
if u are using D-Lnk just enable DMZ for ur Computer IP. thought it's kind of not secure since DMZ will open open all ur port for the IP u entered.......
DMZ!!!! No no bad idea.....subjected to dangerous port attack. Just do as the http://www.portforward.com/ as give by a few posting above.
