Port Forwarding ... Fail.

[MoonPig]

Right, this has probably been asked lots of times, but here goes.

I'm trying to setup BitComet for some 'legal' activities. It worked fine before on my own chosen port (i forwarded 37176). Since the start of this week though, it's either always blocked or 'Detect Failed'. I haven't changed a thing.

So, three questions:

1) Why has it changed? I'm thinking it's cos my IP is set to Dynamic and not Static.

2) Anyone fancy helping me through this on Steam, MSN or Teamviewer?

3) What would be a good port to forward? If i decided to have another go on my own.

Thanks

PS, guessing this is allowed as I haven't mentioned owt illegal??

 

[Easy Rhino]

you don't have to state WHY you are forwarding ports if you dont feel comfortable

check to see if your ISP blocks certain ports first. if they dont, then maybe your router is screwed up and not saving settings properly. or, your client only accepts certain ports.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Verify that the port forwarding table is pointing that WAN port to your machine's IP address. Usually there's a table in there of what IP addresses are used. You could also run "cmd" and then "ipconfig" to get your computer's IP address. You could always delete the port forwarding entries and re-enter them.

As for port numbers, anything over 1000 is generally OK. There's a lot of common ports used under 1000 (FTP, HTTP, NTP, etc.) so you want to avoid using those if possible. Just make sure it doesn't conflict with other software you are using.

 

[newtekie1]

Do what Ford said, and then set a manual IP on your computer to make sure your computer keeps the same private IP and the port forwards always point to the correct computer.

 

[ocgmj]

Have you tried a simple restart of the router?

 

[MoonPig]

you don't have to state WHY you are forwarding ports if you dont feel comfortable

check to see if your ISP blocks certain ports first. if they dont, then maybe your router is screwed up and not saving settings properly. or, your client only accepts certain ports.

Any idea how i could check? Virgin Media if that matters.

Verify that the port forwarding table is pointing that WAN port to your machine's IP address. Usually there's a table in there of what IP addresses are used. You could also run "cmd" and then "ipconfig" to get your computer's IP address. You could always delete the port forwarding entries and re-enter them.

As for port numbers, anything over 1000 is generally OK. There's a lot of common ports used under 1000 (FTP, HTTP, NTP, etc.) so you want to avoid using those if possible. Just make sure it doesn't conflict with other software you are using.

Well, to make sure i created rules for 192.168.0.1 through to 192.168.0.6 so that i was covered if it changed.

Do what Ford said, and then set a manual IP on your computer to make sure your computer keeps the same private IP and the port forwards always point to the correct computer.

I followed a guide, did this with the IPv4 setting and copied the current 'ipconfig' results in, that resulted in no internet though.

Have you tried a simple restart of the router?

yea, just did. Tis the same.

 

[xmountainxlionx]

I dont know about bitcomet, but bittorrent has a option to randomize the ports it uses every time you open it. check to make sure it dosent do that. Also you could try a different torrent client app.