bridging my dsl model ended all my problems

[laundrybag]

i just got dsl 1.5 weeks ago

3meg down /512 up

they gave me a ZOOM X3 ADSL modem -- model (5660)

i've read some things in your site and a bunch of others

tried a few things i've seen posted but none of it helped

what i had going on was

i would connect to some people my download speed would

get up to about 50 very slowly

then drop to zero very fast, almost instantly and i would lose

connection to everyone i had

i would upload fine although it pissed me off a little bit

i don't mind seeding but when i'm upping 3 times more

than i'm downing it bothered me

i mean come on couldn't it have atleast been "1 for 1"

oh well i guess the point of my post is to give

everyone a heads up about bridging their dsl modem as a possible fix

as soon as i bridged mine my speed went way up

and my connection stayed stable

no more did it go up then drop right away to zero

i had my connections per torrent set to 64 as suggested somewhere here

i changed it to 200 just to see what happened

i started getting no less than 150 down speeds

sometimes it would go over 300

but that was cuz sometimes i was getting 100 speed off 1 person

to sum

in all the posts i've seen the past week or so

i only came across bridging once or twice

so just keep "BRIDGING" in mind

oh i have a question

i mentioned 3 meg down and 512 up as my connection

is the 512 "kbs" or "kBs"

thanks

[Firon]

Bridging isn't viable for many people unfortunately, since they need it as a router for multiple PCs.

And it's kbps (or kbit/s).

[laundrybag]

Firon:

luckily i had a router cuz i had internet through

my cable tv connection but switched to DSL on my fone

i needed the router cuz the kids got a comp ffrom their granpa for x-mas

i also realize what the phrase "Whats the Speed of Free" means for file sharing

(i picked that up way back when i used to mess with newsgroups:) )

you are right though,

but for the price of one game a person could buy a router and some McDonalds

i'm only bringing this topic here because i know how upset/aggrevated/mad that

i was about how my connection was behaving

but now with bridging it sure is nice to

see a 700 meg file coming to me in an hour

[peepee]

Hi! What do you mean by bridging and how do I go about it? I use to have good speed but had to reformat my harddisk recently and lost all my setting.

I am using Win XP and Speedtouch ST585 router. Also whend doing port forwarding check I get following error msg:-

"Checking port 3XXXX on 165.XX.XXX.XXX

Warning! Port 3xxxx can not be checked. Your browser is setup to connect through a proxy. This script will not work through proxied connections. "

I thought my ip address should start with 192.xx.xxx?

[Firon]

192.x is a private/local IP address.

Singnet transparently proxies all HTTP traffic for their customers.

[peepee]

Hi! So how do I know whether the port is successfuly forwarded?

[1c3d0g]

When it says UPnP (xxxxx) OK or Network OK in the status bar.