Cant figure out how to open the ports correctly.

[Ohiochris]

Hi all. I can not figure out how to open my ports for Bitcomet. I bought a new router the other day and now Bitcomet wont work correctly. Here is the info according to the "read this before asking":

Bitcomet ver 1.15

Connection is DSL (Embarq)

Modem= yes (Zyxel 660 series)

Router= yes (linksys wrt160n Firmware Version: v3.0.00) Yes I have forwarded my port.

Windows XP Pro 64, Firewall is off but still added the right ports. AVG anti-virus

Speedtest results: Ping 66ms, DL Speed 1.47mb/s, UL Speed 0.48mb/s

Also please feel free to contact me at my email I listed for registration.

Thank you in advance!

[greywizard]

Yes I have forwarded my port.

Unless you have changed something else too, since installing your router, you obviously haven't done a very good job at that.

Did you change anything?

What steps have you followed to forward your port?

[Ohiochris]

I went to applications and gaming---->single port forwarding and entered the info and the steps for my router at http://portforward.com/

I attached a photo of the setup in the router.

Please use the "Fast Reply" option, unless there is a specific reason for quoting the post directlly prior to your own.

Edited October 21, 2009 by cassie (see edit history)

[greywizard]

Please, compress any images prior to uploading on the forum, to some lossy format like JPEG, for instance. This way they will load much faster. I did that for you this time and as you can see, a simple JPEG 70% compression shrank your file from 1.72MB to only 79.5KB.

Now, to your problem. You failed to clearly specify what is the problem you encounter. I'm only assuming that you get a yellow light in BitComet and no remote peers, thus subsequently poor download speeds. But you'll have to confirm that.

You need to make sure, first, that your problem resides in the router. So I recommend you to take the router out of the loop and connect your modem to your computer. If that gets you a green light and/or remote peers then we'll know that it's your router which needs attention. If not the problem resides on your computer.

If indeed, your problem is the router another 2 things to check and confirm before getting back to us are that:

your forwarded port (55555) on the router is the same with the port on BitComet's options page;

your IP is set to static and is the same as the target IP from your router (192.168.1.100).

[cassie]

Hmmm... I can't seem to be able to access your attachment. Could you try again, using this Guide, please?

Edit - So it was you, greywizard, that was 'tampering' with the image, huh? :P

[greywizard]

Yes... I was working my magic to shrink it. :D

It took like, more than 15 seconds to load and it was not included into the post but only attached.

[Ohiochris]

Sorry bout the image....I am in the process of finding an ethernet cable long enough to connect to my PC.

[Ohiochris]

Ok, I took my router out of the picture and it worked after I forwarded the port in the modem, however when I reconnected the router I got the same problem back.

Edited October 21, 2009 by Ohiochris (see edit history)

[greywizard]

Well, you've just eliminated one possible cause and narrowed down the area.

Very important: Do not connect your computer to the Internet without the protection of a firewall. Having the router taken out of the loop, generally, means you need to have some software firewall running on your machine in order to be protected. You can, for the sake of testing, connect with every firewall application disabled but for no more than a few moments (it takes less than a minute to verify if you get a green light). However it's highly unrecommended to be online for any longer, without a firewall.

However on your case there is something (your modem or a piece of software on your computer), already, still acting as a firewall.

So, what exactly is your modem model? Looking on Zyxel site I can see that there are some models from the 660 series which are modem/router integrated devices which have hardware firewalls. So we need to clear this out. Check your modem's front and back to get the exact model. If you can't find anything more specific, even on the label on its back then a photo of the device would help or tell us if you can find it on this page.

[Ohiochris]

OK I think I figured it out...when I added the port in my modem it was the actual IP address of the modem, but when I hooked my router to it I used the computers ip but all I needed to do was to put the routers ip in the modem and it seemed to fix it. I hope that makes sense.

[Ohiochris]

However it's highly unrecommended to be online for any longer, without a firewall.

Should I have windows firewall on then? Because I normally dont even use it.

[greywizard]

...when I added the port in my modem it was the actual IP address of the modem, but when I hooked my router to it I used the computers ip but all I needed to do was to put the routers ip in the modem and it seemed to fix it. I hope that makes sense.

Actually it doesn't. That's why I asked you to tell me the model of your modem device.

That's because you can't forward any port in a standard modem device. If that's the case, it means you have a modem/router device and practically you are using two cascaded routers at this point. While it's possible, I can't see any practical use for it (except for more complex LAN configurations) other than the headache of mirroring all the settings related to ports in both devices. But suit yourself.

As for the firewall, I was referring specifically to the case when you connect through a simple modem. But the routers usually have integrated hardware firewalls which come enabled from factory. So at this point you probably have two hardware firewalls running and probably you can leave the Windows firewall off.