Port Forwarding.

[Mephisto_Helix]

I need to do some of this and I wanted to find out first if there are any pitfalls to doing it? Portforward.com says to d/load some little thingy and whatnot .... so I just want to be sure. Also, in Soulseek, there is an option of enabling uPnP (to make d/loads more smooth or some such), could anyone expand a tad on that too?


Much appreciated.

 

[Necuno]

I need to do some of this and I wanted to find out first if there are any pitfalls to doing it? Portforward.com says to d/load some little thingy and whatnot .... so I just want to be sure. Also, in Soulseek, there is an option of enabling uPnP (to make d/loads more smooth or some such), could anyone expand a tad on that too?


Much appreciated.

lets start of with a decent description of what exectly you want to achieve and with what.

are you even in the correct section here ?

 

[JJRM]

Yeah lets start with a clear description....

 

[Mephisto_Helix]

Well what other section should it be in?


My d/loads are slow, Soulseek reckons I need to either 'enable uPnP' or go to Portforward.com and open the port that is closed and making the d/loads slow. I want to know if there are any pitfalls to doing so


Edit: Duh, I did put it in the wrong place ....... a little help please mods?

 

[JJRM]

This is the right place. The question is exactly what do you want to do? What ports do you need to forward?

I personally find it easier to manually forward each port I want. Its safer that way. uPNP sometimes messes up, in that, out of the blue you might find your port forwarding settings all different and something else doesn't work.

So I would suggest manually configuring this on your router instead of enabling uPNP.

 

[Necuno]

This is the right place.

which part of port forwarding is software development ?

My d/loads are slow, Soulseek reckons I need to either 'enable uPnP' or go to Portforward.com and open the port that is closed and making the d/loads slow. I want to know if there are any pitfalls to doing so

Mephisto_Helix, you trying to port forward for torrents or http/ftp ?

can it be dangerious , havn't bothered with that part myself- though i did read some of the results , seems only risky when there is things involved like RDP.

 

[Mephisto_Helix]

Thanks for the feedback chaps ....... It was exactly what I needed