Optimizing your router for use with BitTorrent

[KnKyJ]

Could somebody please post their settings for the planet ADE 3000, to get bittorrent to work (currently it's giving me speeds of 0-2kbs when there's more than 30 seeders!) It uses ports 6881-6999

thanks

 

[Jerrek]

My BitTorrent only uses ports 6881 to 6889. Just foward it to your computer on the TCP protocol. UDP isn't needed.

 

[Maestro]

Maybe this has been explained and sorry for asking again, but how do I forward these ports to my computer on the TCP protocol?

I am using Telkom's ADSL router Pots.

Thanks

 

[Bug-E]

I use the Planet ADE-4100 router and I had to do no port-forwarding to get bittorrent to work.
Maybe you were leeching from an international seeder after your 3gig cap?

 

[Clipse]

hi, i know its bit late but here goes. I would advice anyone using bit torrent to change their default ports of 6881-6889 to something higher like 50000-50100 for example. Afaik telkom monitors those default ports lately and throttles it to s*it ;p plus most torrent sites dont allow the default ports allready.

 

[Ultra_Immortal]

Download the Bit Torrent Client " Azureus ". That forwards ports for you. And its the best BT Client out there. ^_^

 

[Spamtheman]

er no it isn't, the whole thing is written in java which means as soon as it parses a file it eats up system resources big time, this isn't an issue until your torrents get bigger than 2 gb but after that be prepared to leave your machine alone for a while.

 

[freeek]

either way its kewl. azeruess is a good app even tho java does garbage collection for the programmer hence making it inefficient ...?

 

[Perdition]

Garbage collection shouldn't be an issue, it's more likely the JVM is just much slower than running a native binary so on larger files your processor chokes.

 

[adrianl]

I find BitComet a very good torrent client . Im using a planet 3100 router. Works fine.