ok i have tried everything

[mediamaster92]

ok, so i have put up with slow torrent downloads for too long, and i am sick of it. i have attempted to open my ports for utorrent many many times

my router is Dlink DI-524 router. I have follwed portforward.com's tutorial time and time again with no luck. i must be missing something! i have also reverted my router back to normal settings still with no luck. please help me!

[jewelisheaven]

Well forwarding is a pretty simple task as long as you know the required information AND you know where to look. Could you give some more informatio about your computer and LAN setup? ... Perhaps my post shows some more procedures/places you may have missed the first time around?

[mediamaster92]

ok. i will explain to you exactly what i did. first, i set up a static ip address. i am almost positive i did this correctly because it remains the same under ipconfig/ all

even after restarting the computer. however, when i go to a site such as whatsmyip.org, it does not display the same ip that i set my static one to. is this a problem? after that, i went into my router settings via 192.168.0.1 and entered my username and password. after doing so, i went to virtual server, and added an entry exactly as it stated on the portforward.com web site. however, the port remains closed according to utorrent. any help? perhaps you could walk me through it? i am trying to download about a 4 gb file and i cannot possibly wait 6 days! LOL

[jewelisheaven]

nope That's what the router does. It makes it so you have two "zones" if you will. There's one zone (WAN) on the internet side of the router... and the other (LAN) is on the near side, where you connect your computers.

Hmmmm, are you sure you set the correct port and IP in the forwarding rule?? 192.168.0.X goes in the IP and the PORT from your Speed Guide needs to go in the port part of the rule :/

Here's one thing you can check to see if you'll even get a certain download rate... start up the most recent torrent from http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/ ... which will tell you if you get the rated download speed on your line from your ISP ... and I use http://www.canyouseeme.org and http://www.utorrent.com/testport.php?port=YOURPORTNUMBER and https://www.grc.com/x/portprobe=YOURPORTNUMBER to test open ports.

It is possible you need to reboot your router for the forwarding rules to take effect... after that it would take some more investigation to find the problem... If you feel even more adventurous check out my post which lists additional places to verify you don't need rules.

[mediamaster92]

ok so your saying that (my static ip is 192.168.0.136) so under the virtual server settings i should put that ip in the entry under the private ip column and the port number (45682) under the protocol section with the BOTH setting enabled. thats what i did. so should i download the torrent from http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/? then what do i do with that? also..what is the purpose of the other websites?

[jewelisheaven]

If you setup your IP and port like that, you should be set. What it means is that there's another place where the forwarding needs to be put. The OpenOffice torrent is to test your speed and the forwarding. If the OOo torrent makes the networking stats go green, you're good to go. The other websites are alternative ways to test your port, aside from the built in uT port tester. They each test for different things.

Going to my post... could you explain a bit more about your setup.. I mention this in my post but it's easy to gloss over it because I'm kinda wordy :/ Does your internet go ISP -> modem -> router -> computers? Have you tried connecting to your modem to see if it too has a firewall/router functionality built-into it? If you're not sure putting in at least the make into the forum here or elsewhere should put out some results...