Motorola Canopy & Port Forwarding

[bill301]

Hello, I'm new to torrents and have been doing lots of reading over the last week and spent this weekend setting up software & firmware to handle torrents. I'm running windows XP SP2 connected to a Linksys WRT54GL router which is connected to a Motorola Canopy RF modem. I connect to an access point some 14 miles away.

I have upgraded the WRT54GL firmware to Tomato 1.21 and installed uTorrent 1.81. My average transfer speeds are 2,944 kbps Down and 262 kbps Up. I have successfully downloaded a torrent (albiet slowly) but an orange exclamation icon at the center bottom of screen indicates that a port was not open. So I clicked it and ran the port checker which resulted in Error! Port 27213 does not appear to be open.

I have tried both uPnP and static IP with manual port forwarding with the same results. Port checker returns an IP address that is similar to my ISP's DNS address which leads me to believe that the Motorola modem (or router farther up stream) is blocking the desired port connection. So I'm guessing that just about any peer to peer connection would not work. I was still able to have a transmit/receive ratio of ~0.50 on torrent completion but seeding transmit levels went way down to almost zero as no one could bind to me.

Port used for incoming connections 27213

[x] Enable UpnP (Also tried static IP with manual port forwarding)

[ ] Randomize port each start

[x] Enable NAT-PMP port mapping

[x] Add Windows Firewall exception

[Enabled] Outgoing protocol Encryption (tried both ways, no change)

[x] Allow incoming legacy connections

Max Upload rate = 22

Max download rate = 0 (unlimited)

Global max number of connections = 60

Maximum number of connected peers/torrent = 35

Number of upload slots per torrent = 3

I have contacted my ISP to see what can be done (waiting a reply). Searching this forum resulted in a few similar cases with no resolution. Are there any new or suggested ways to poke a port hole in this set-up?

One other thing that occurs is that if I let uTorrent run uninterupted for a couple hours, I no longer have internet or e-mail access from any machine on the network. When this happens, the torrent connection is still banging away, but the only way to re-gain internet access is to power reset the Motorola RF Modem. If I reset the computers and Linksys router, it makes no difference, the RF modem needs to be reset to clear the problem. This happens every once in a while even if torrents are not running... Perhaps every few months or so.

Thank-you, Bill

[GTHK]

This Motorola Canopy, a wireless service? Your ISP might not be giving you a public IP address. Find the Linksys status page and look at the stuff in the Internet/WAN section, try typing the gateway address into your browser. Also post the first two parts of the Internet/WAN IP address listed in the router.

[bill301]

Yes, it is indeed a point to multi-point wireless service. My current default gateway is that of my router 192.168 and it brings up the router access pages. If I connect direct to the modem, I'm sure it has a different gateway, but I know it is password protected and I really do not want to mess with the settings my ISP has configured it with. The DNS I connect to has 66.38 as the first two numbers and the IP address I receive also starts with 66.38. which is the same address the port cannot be opened on.

Thanks, Bill

[GTHK]

You're checking the IP address in the router right? Has to be listed in the router

What version WRT54GL?

[bill301]

Not sure what IP address you are asking about:

My ISP's DNS address?

My assigned www address?

My machines assigned LAN address?

The router contains the DNS addresses, private DHcp Address range (for other machines on my network), and private static addresses (one of which is assigned to this machine at the moment).

The WRT54GL is a CL7A = V1.0

Bill

[GTHK]

The routers assigned address, as the router listed. If it's 192.168 on the WAN side (screw the LAN side) then the modem or ISP is also NATing you. If it's the modem then you can probably port forward, but if it's the ISP..

[bill301]

The WAN side of the router has a 66.38 address I believe assigned dynamically. I suppose I could re-boot the modem and router to see if I get a different number...

Maybe it is still unclear, the WAN side of the router has DHCP enabled, there is no hard coded IP address on the WAN side. I run find my IP to retrieve the assigned WAN address.

My ISP also offers VOIP, so I'm wondering if perhaps that port (unknown number) was left open and I can pass it through???

Thanks, Bill

[GTHK]

So when you check inside the router it's 66.38 at the time? Would you be able to bypass the router and see if the port opens up? When you mouse over the red icon at the bottom of µTorrent what does it say?

[bill301]

Inside the router it says nothing for the WAN IP address. It will only show one if you are running a static WAN IP. I have to run a web based ap to see what the WAN IP is, currently it is still 66.38...

The Icon said something about no port connections. I started a new torrent to see what it says, now it is orange in color and says "No incomming Connections..." Clicking on it and running the port test comes up with the same error of port does not appear to be open.

Both up and down speeds are running about 20kB/sec on this torrent if that is of any help...

Thanks, Bill

<edit> OK now it is a darker orange triangle and it says "Not connectable - A firewall/router is limiting your network traffic. You need to open up a port so others can connect to you."

[GTHK]

Static or Dynamic the router will have one.

[bill301]

Sorry for being so "thick", I found it under the routers overview page. It appears to be a 192.168 address that is in a different range from my routers private IPs.

So I guess this 192.168 runs through a NAT to become the 66.38...

I tried browsing the gateway also listed on this page and it goes nowhere, page not found.

Thanks again, Bill

[GTHK]

Yeahhhhhhhhhhhh wireless ISP usually no good :X | Maybe bypass the router first before trying.