College Router Issue

[liege513]

Sup.

I've just switched to utorrent a few weeks ago, and may I say that it's better than azureus in terms of speed and memUsage. Regardless, I never had any nearer the crazy speeds that you guys posted on the forum. See, I used to have literally 4-8Mb/s when I was using i2hub, but sadly that thing came crashing down and I had to resort to torrents instead.

Thus, having said all this, I'm kinda bumped because I know for sure that I'm able to get crazy speeds and I did all of the stuff that are in the mini-guide. That left me with only one issue. I don't do the port forwarding part right.

portforward.com steps (I have a ZyXEL Prestige600 router and I'm under Umich DSL connection):

- I've already set up my connections to be of a static ip.

- but it seems that I can't do the next step, which is to enter my ip address into the address bar of my web browser. I would always get 'the page cannot be displayed'.

Yet, the utorrent's status bar gives a 'Network OK', and I don't have any NAT Error either. I test my port and the guide says that my port is open and accepting connections.

so, this leads me to some questions:

1. obviously i didn't complete the steps in portforward.com, but is my port forwarded at all?

2. for azureus, we know that we can't use port 6881 to get high speeds, but for utorrent, I see that we can randomize port numbers. so, is it ok if I assume that randomizing ports is useless if you want to forward your port, lest if you do port forwarding all over again with the same port number every time you randomize? What's the function of randomiziing port numbers anyway?

3. the big question, is it possible that my university network blocks me from entering the router page (like the one you see in portforward.com)? is there any way to fix this if it's true?

4. extra credit question, when I double-clicked my local area connection, I saw that in the status, I have 'Speed: 100.0Mbps'. so, what does this 100.0 Mbps represents? It certainly can't be my maximum dl speed, but when I do the speed test, it gives me 4000Kb/s more or less. But I know that I've downloaded in speeds way more than that. So, how am I able to get my most accurate maximum dl speed?

Hope someone helps.

p/s Yo fellow wolverines!!(or any college dudes using on-campus network and have successfully port forwarded) help me guys!!

[00]

Shouldn't you enter the ip address of the router instead of your ip address into the address bar of the web browser?

1. If you are using the latest version, you should see a green orb instead of the "Network OK" message. If you see either it means the port forwarding is fine.

2. If you are port forwarding there's no point in randomizing.

4. The speed from your computer to the router.

[Nefarious]

4. u should better use the speed test from the speed guide to find out what settings to use

[liege513]

sup guys..

thanks for the replies...

anyways, i tried using the router ip, but it didn't work, so i went ahead and tried out my ip n several xxx.xxx.xxx.xx numbers i got from ipconfig /all lol

it's not working either

[td4guy]

ipconfig /all should give you a Default Gateway address. That's what you type into your web browser.

Are you sure that you have DSL, and not a normal university high-speed ethernet connection?