Firewalled: Again????

should i change my port number to the number that is not firewalled? Unsure why 50000 is suddenly firewalled. Thanks for all of your help!!!!!!

[tman88]

Hi
I used a sight called firewalling dot com/routers.htm
to figure out this kinda of stuff
-t

[U2Lynne]

Originally Posted by saveferals

should i change my port number to the number that is not firewalled? Unsure why 50000 is suddenly firewalled. Thanks for all of your help!!!!!!

Well, what I'm getting at is you are saying that you are using 50000, but something in your setup is not using that port and they are successfully using that other port. So, something is off in your setup. I don't care what port you use, but all your applications need to know what port to use and right now one of those applications is not using the port you said you told it to.

Thanks for the above but I had this working at one time!

[U2Lynne]

Originally Posted by tman88

Hi
I used a sight called firewalling dot com/routers.htm
to figure out this kinda of stuff
-t

Looks just like portforward.com . Perhaps a mirror site?

[tman88]

Originally Posted by U2Lynne

Looks just like portforward.com. Perhaps a mirror site?

somewhat the same I dont think a exact mirrior
-t

Well, I added a different port that was working before and added it to everything. I don't have the firewaLLED sign anymore. Hopefully it will stay this way!!! Should I close the other ports or does it matter?

[U2Lynne]

Originally Posted by saveferals

Thanks for the above but I had this working at one time!

And, it is working currently for port 24907. You said you were using 50000 for your bt client, but it seems to want to use that other port and that port is fine. You were using port 24907 (not firewalled) and then five minutes later you switched to port 50000 (firewalled). Why? You are manually doing something to firewall yourself.

I switched to port 24907 because you said it was working! Which it seems to be. I manually set up the 50000 initially when I started using the client weeks ago. Since you said 24907 was working I changed to that...
I have no idea where or why 24907 came from because I didn't set it to that before..

my dl speeds are up again to 104 kbs/sec
uploads are at 32

Firewalling makes a huge difference

Resolved-thanks very much.

[U2Lynne]

I have a feeling it's not resolved. I think your bittorrent client is set to randomly select a port. You might look into that. (I asked before what bt client your were using and you never said). I guess we'll hear from you after your next reboot.

I set the bittorrent settings to accept port 24,907 so why wqould it randomly choose upon reboot?
I'll check the version

Version 4.20.9

Should the "enable automatic port mapping" box be checked in the settings of bittorrent????

[U2Lynne]

Originally Posted by saveferals

I set the bittorrent settings to accept port 24,907 so why wqould it randomly choose upon reboot?
I'll check the version

Are you using the official bittorrent client, BitTorrent? Other clients, like uTorrent and ABC (I think), have a Randomize Port option. Make sure that is Off and check what port that show is being used at the time you turn it off.