Port Forwading?

[Vampiric-Youth]

Hi,

I use the Marconi Telkom ADSL Router Pots and I'm quite a user of P2P programs, espectially Limewire, Bittorrent and Overnet, such P2Ps can't function that well behind the hardware firewall, so can any of you help me use portforwarding to get around this?

What exactly do I need to do? Can it mess up any of my normal internet settings?

 

[me]

Telkom restricts most P2P traffic, so there's nothing you can do to get round it without spending huge amounts on an unshaped ADSL account.

 

[Vampiric-Youth]

Well, I've gone and set my TCP and firewall ports all to 80 on 3 of my P2P Programs, would this make any difference at all or should I just switch them back to the normal 4661? My friend has ADSL, now he dials up and uses the Telkom ADSL software, he seems to be getting faster speeds than me, and I use no software, I'm always connected through my router.. Could this be a factor?

Is the only reason that Port Forwarding can speed up downloads because seeing as your router firewall is ineffective, you're able to connect to more sources and therefore get faster downloads? for instance, if I'm able to download from someone and the maximum they can upload to me is at 30 kb/s, but I'm only downloading from them at 5 kb/s, would portforwarding speed up that download and let me download from them at 25 or so kb/s? in other words, does port-forwarding only allow you to download from sources you couldn't usually download from and not make a difference to the speeds of those you can download from normally?

I' masking this because I cant find any info on how to portforward my router (Marconi, windows 98se) and I don't know much about it and I Don't know if it's worth going to all that trouble.

Someone said that setting my port to 80 or 81 as incoming and on the connection and firewall options of P2P programs would download faster than the normal 4661 so I've set my incoming port to 80 on all of my P2P programs (K-lite, overnet, limewire, BT) will this help with speeds or not make a difference?

 

[Andre]

Port 80 does help with Kazaa Lite.

 

[Vampiric-Youth]

Is it not good if I set all the ports on all my P2P Clients to 80? or should I set one to 80, one to 81, one to 82 etc?

If I set the incoming and firewall ports to 80 is that bad?

 

[me]

I don't think you'll get any extra speed by using different ports for each app.

BTW, anyone, does Telkom do its port shaping at packet level? If not, wouldn't port 80 give good speed with every app? If so, why does using port 80 help at all?

 

[Vampiric-Youth]

But wont it make a difference if I'm running 3 programs at the same time, each using port 80?

Shouldn't Limewire be 80
Overnet 81
K-lite 82 etc?

Must I set my firewall port to 80/81/82 as well?

 

[me]

You could try it, but since port 80 is pretty much unshaped, AFAIK, there's nothing to gain - it will allow as much traffic through as your router can give it. If the apps run slow on port 80 it's because the upsteam routers are doing some kind of packet filtering.

If your firewall requires you to open the ports you use manually, do so, but I doubt it's blocking port 80.

 

[Vampiric-Youth]

Could you tell me how to manually unblock them from my firewall?

 

[me]

No, because I don't know what your firewall is

 

[Vampiric-Youth]

Only the hardware firewall on the Marconi router.

The default port for Ares Lite is 37964, which is blazing fast.