New to Bittorrent! Please Help!

[slannm]

Hey Everyone! I heard people at my school talking about bittorrent, and thought I'd try it out. The problem I am having is slow dowloading speeds. I am not to sure how to do port forwarding or other things to improve my speed. My average speed now is 2-15 kb/s, but I have heard that people can get as high as 300kb/s. My computer runs off of a wireless D-link Dl625 router, which sends to my D-link DWL520. I use Windows XP, my IP adress is *Edited* according to http://www.showmyip.com/. I use a fast cable connection. Please help me figure out how to get faster downloads, keep in mind I am not too tech-savvy. Thanks!!

[Freez]

Go to http://portforward.com/ and find your router model. They have pretty easy instructions on forwarding the ports of almost all routers.

Good luck

[Chrystamyr]

Hey Everyone! I heard people at my school talking about bittorrent, and thought I'd try it out. The problem I am having is slow dowloading speeds. I am not to sure how to do port forwarding or other things to improve my speed. My average speed now is 2-15 kb/s, but I have heard that people can get as high as 300kb/s. My computer runs off of a wireless D-link Dl625 router, which sends to my D-link DWL520. I use Windows XP, my IP adress is *Edited* according to http://www.showmyip.com/. I use a fast cable connection. Please help me figure out how to get faster downloads, keep in mind I am not too tech-savvy. Thanks!!

You really shouldn't flash your IP about like that, some less than honest folks can take advantage of you if you do. Although, if they wanted to, they could find it without you just giving it up like that.

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[Freez]

Good Eye Chrystamyr, Thanks... I'm still not quite awake yet.


*Original post edited*

[KM]

80.235.131.131

what does it matter if you give out one of your ISP's IP Addresses?

[slannm]

Thanks for the heads up guys! I am going to try the portfoward thing, but I have some questions that I need cleared up.

This is the page that I am using from portfoward.com
http://www.portforward.com/english/rout ... orrent.htm

Ok, for the static IP am I using the IP of the computer with the router or the one with the recieving card? Also, do I make all the system changes on the computer with the router or the one with the reciever?

Thanks everyone

[KM]

set the IP Address of your computers network card to something different to the router (otherwise you will have more than a few problems) - just change the last digit of the routers LAN IP Address and use that.

For the default gateway you then put in the routers IP Address, and for the DNS servers... it really depends on your router, sometimes you put your routers IP Address, other times you have to put in your ISP's DNS servers directly, if you do an "ipconfig /all" from the command prompt now then you'll see what they are currently set to, so you can use that

then once that is done your internet access should still be working, if not try again then just go to the router configuration and forward the ports to the IP Addres than you gave your computer

[Chrystamyr]

>ping -a 80.235.131.131

Pinging 80-235-131-131.cable.ubr13.na.blueyonder.co.uk [80.235.131.131] with 32
bytes of data:

Reply from 80.235.131.131: bytes=32 time=134ms TTL=108
Reply from 80.235.131.131: bytes=32 time=203ms TTL=108
Reply from 80.235.131.131: bytes=32 time=149ms TTL=108
Reply from 80.235.131.131: bytes=32 time=161ms TTL=108

Ping statistics for 80.235.131.131:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 134ms, Maximum = 203ms, Average = 161ms

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