Ports

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I noticed that programs such as Azureus or uTorrent etc instruct their users to open this or that particular port. Some even try to get you to switch to a static IP address. Something tha is impossible for some users such as myself.

My question is, is their something similar in BitComet that i’m not aware of. I’ve been using the program for a while now and so far I on ly ever allowed the program access through my firewall and that was all I ever did. No port opening, no static IP nonsense, nothing else. I don’t know if this has affected my download speeds or not. Although lower speeds I always thought were due to lack of seeds/peers rather than my own configuration. Maybe i’m wrong.

Does anyone know if I should actually be playing around with ports? Is it just a factor effecting speed or is it critical to download a torrent at all (assuming i’ve already allowed program access through my firewall)?

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If you don’t have a L.A.N., then there is no need to setup a static IP address on your computers, nor forward ports in your router (since you don’t have a router).

If you do have a L.A.N, then its your internal IP addresses that have to be static, so your router knows which computer to send the data to.

Suspect

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I do have a ADSL modem though. Isn’t that like a router?

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If there is only one computer, then no, it is not a router.

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IC - thanks for all the info. :slight_smile:

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Hey I am hooked to a home network and how would I get my PC to open ports on my computer using bitcomet to not use up all bandwidth on home network and still able me to download files online?

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Read and follow the settings guide, it will tell you how to do both.