Comments on: Speed Up BitTorrent

By: Giannis Amanopoulos

Giannis Amanopoulos — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:30:02 +0000

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.

By: Tellahoohoo

Tellahoohoo — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 05:00:33 +0000

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.

By: Tellahoohoo

Tellahoohoo — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 04:55:01 +0000

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

By: Johs

Johs — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 21:50:37 +0000

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 :<

By: HEX

HEX — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 00:11:59 +0000

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/

By: kamui

kamui — Wed, 24 May 2006 02:29:21 +0000

how do I open up the ports, I’m new at this, sry!~

By: KDE

KDE — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 02:08:23 +0000

mike: Alot of the time you will find Bittorrent ports blocked in school/college networks.

By: razor

razor — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 07:58:15 +0000

i have Kerio Personal Firewall 4 on WinXP Pro
How do I open up the ports 6881 – 6889
on my system

By: mike

mike — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 03:47:31 +0000

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?

By: bill macpherson

bill macpherson — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 03:26:16 +0000

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…

By: Erik Hostetler

Erik Hostetler — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 19:42:13 +0000

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…

By: Blartibartfast

Blartibartfast — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 05:42:10 +0000

If you have Windows firewall, you can just ports from the settings there.

By: JD

JD — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 04:17:32 +0000

How do i set the port to that on XP it doesnt have any port settings.

By: Satanspet

Satanspet — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 22:10:36 +0000

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

By: 1s

1s — Sun, 08 May 2005 03:46:23 +0000

well, max, u delete it.

By: duff

duff — Sun, 03 Apr 2005 15:21:42 +0000

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?

By: unwanted

unwanted — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 02:56:14 +0000

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

By: Les Brown

Les Brown — Sat, 31 Jul 2004 18:33:39 +0000

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

By: Max

Max — Sun, 25 Jul 2004 09:58:26 +0000

How do i set my firewall to another port? I use Norton 2004.

By: Funkatron

Funkatron — Fri, 23 Jul 2004 06:36:37 +0000

What I do anyway is set BT and my firewall to work at another, normally unknown port.

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 12:09:39 +0000

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!

By: Jeff Minard

Jeff Minard — Wed, 21 Jul 2004 20:16:25 +0000

None? I don’t believe anything runs on those ports by default.