If you’ve ever used BitTorrent (Tomato Torrent client for Mac OS X) and were disappointed by the download speeds, try poking a hole through your firewall from 6881 to 6889. It quadrupled the speeds I was getting.
For those using the default Mac OS X firewall, you can edit the open ports in the “Sharing” section of the preferences and for those on Windows, check the ports section of your firewall application.
Besides this being cool, how much of a security threat does this now pose?
None? I don’t believe anything runs on those ports by default.
And doesn’t the Bittorrent readme tell you to do this anyway? I’m pretty certain I wouldn’t have worked that out for myself!
What I do anyway is set BT and my firewall to work at another, normally unknown port.
How do i set my firewall to another port? I use Norton 2004.
Here’s a guide to Bittorrent port forwarding for OS X and Apple Airport Extreme. Hope it helps.
http://www.blueskyis.com/bittorrent/airportforwarding.php
i have symatec firewall and i have a wirelsess router and i have XP how to set the port to let things go through and can lower the upload speed
i hve a binatone adsl 500 how i have tried doing all them things about default gateway ip but that page does not load ho do i maximise my downloads?
well, max, u delete it.
i use bittorrent and bittorrent accelerator pro, it gives u decent boosts by itself but i recomend opening up the ports also, i have done this on my Win XP machine and i went from something like 20 kbs to 110 kbs in mear seconds :) hope this helps
How do i set the port to that on XP it doesnt have any port settings.
If you have Windows firewall, you can just ports from the settings there.
All my firewall, port forwarding, and address stuff seems to be right, I am getting green lights in Azureus, and a week ago I was downloading at up to 300k now I’m cruising between 10 and 30k…what’s gone wrong? How can I get the speed again? I’ve Comcast Cable Internet, running OS 10.4, and an Airport Express. Please Help…
uh could you guys make this any more difficult to run???? I think not…Of coarse you could use more ambiguous termenology.Ive been to at least 20 sites trying to figure out how to speed up the downloads…Maybe in plain english cuz I guess you have to be a rocket scientist to figure this out…Apart from that I love the concept whole albums split into files etc…
I’m in college on the college network, we’re hard wired no wireless. How would I go about speeding mine up on mac osx?
i have Kerio Personal Firewall 4 on WinXP Pro
How do I open up the ports 6881 – 6889
on my system
mike: Alot of the time you will find Bittorrent ports blocked in school/college networks.
how do I open up the ports, I’m new at this, sry!~
this site helped me out….i was running at 3kbs after opening ports it runs at 90kbs….go to http://p2p.weblogsinc.com/2005/04/24/how-to-configure-your-router-to-allow-fast-bittorrent-downloads/
Hi i have got onto my firewall on windows XP and have the Choice to Pick General Exceptions or Advanced.What shud I do plesase help as I am currently running at 13KB/s :Hi i have got onto my firewall on windows XP and have the Choice to Pick General Exceptions or Advanced.What shud I do plesase help as I am currently running at 13KB/s :<
I’m use bittorrent on a belkin pre-n1 mimo wireless router.
The thing that did the trick for me was going to the router config page 198.168.2.1 and going under firewall>Virtual Servers using ports 6881-6889 I had to do it on both fields for TCP & UDP since theres no single option for both. After entering my personal IP address and applying the changes i went from an average of .3 – 2.5 all the way upto 110 – 143(highest i’ve hit)
If your on a linksys I think this feature is port forwarding…
Happy Downloading
after i changed the settings my seed & peers leeped up from 1 or 2 to currently 24 and i’m hitting speeds of over 200 kib/s
you just have to configur the router
and my port on bit torrent is 6886 i’ll try to mess w/ each one to see which provides the best speeds and let everyone know.
Yeah, but a lot of viruses and other malware/malicious applications could start scanning that range knowing that there are an increasingly large number of users who have those open.
A good analogy would be to put a fence around your house, and then open a little bit up in the back… eventually, somehow, someway someone is going to get in.
http://www.forevergeek.com/2004/07/speed_up_bittorrent/
download this if you want to speed up your bittoent>>>http://www.fileserve.com/file/vzTxNYc/bittorrentspeeduppro_setup.exe