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How to become connectable
In a nutshell, if you're not connectable, it means that you can't seed or leech from anyone else who isn't connectable. Obviously this can greatly effect your effectiveness on site and becoming connectable can help you with your ratio... To become connectable, you need to make sure that all your firewalls are set up to allow your torrents through to your clients. This means you will need to unblock any and all of these that apply to you, depending on what hardware and software you run.
Which port?:
The first thing we need to do is to find out which port our client is running on, this is easy enough in most but i'll find a guide for each of the whitelisted clients anyways
For the PortForward.com - Port Forwarding Guides Listed by Manufacturer and Model guides, ignore everything after the part that tells you how to find the port, its for a random router, not yours
Azureus 3.0.x - Port Forwarding Azureus on the Belkin F5D8231-4, ignore Belkin stuff for now
BitTornado 0.3.x - http://www.portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/Belkin/F5D8231-4/BitTornado.htm, ignore Belkin stuff for now
cTorrent 3.X - Single torrent program, whatever you started it with
Deluge 0.5.x - Click on "Preferences", then go to the "Network" tab, remember the entire range given
Halite 0.2.9.x - Cant find, if anyone can write / find one, pm me with a link and ill add it
KTorrent 2.2.x - Go to settings in the menu bar, then click "Configure Ktorrent", the port number is in the middle of the page.
libtorrent 0.x - If using rtorrent, type `cat ~/.rtorrent.rc | grep port_range` to find out or look at the bottom of a running window
Transmission 0.9.6 - Click "Preferences", the port is under "Listening port"
uTorrent 1.8.x - http://www.portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/Belkin/F5D8231-4/Utorrent.htm, ignore Belkin stuff for now
Now lets get opening some ports!
Router:
The main firewall people seem to have trouble with is if you are running a wireless router, which is odd cause they are all pretty much the same and PortForward.com - Port Forwarding Guides Listed by Manufacturer and Model knows them all
First things first we need to find our local IP address, this differs depending on your OS but is pretty simple:
Windows: Start --> run --> type "cmd". Next type `ipconfig` into the prompt, your ip is on the line starting with "IP address",
*nix and Mac users, open a terminal and as root (or through sudo) type `ifconfig`, then pick the correct interface and your ip is labelled "inet addr".
Next we take a trip to PortForward.com - Port Forwarding Guides Listed by Manufacturer and Model, next you find your router and click on the link where at the end of the paragraph it should say:
Do so now by clicking on the word default
Next we simply find our router make and model, follow the link and voila, a ready made guide that was made earlier just for you
Simply follow the instructions on this page to the letter, substituting your local IP and port number that we found earlier for the examples given, job done
Don't have admin rights on your router??
If you (like me) are sitting on a connection that is shared by your whole building block you may not have access to your routers config
If this does not give you any results you may have too ask the Internet admin in your building if he can open a port for you
But don't worry you just have to find a port that is already open (and there is almost always a bunch) you can do this by performing a port scan on your system on PC Flank: Make sure you're protected on all sides.
You will have too click start test to confirm that you want your system scanned.
And then click continue to confirm your IP.
Then you will have to chose between a TCP connect scanning and a TCP SYN scanning you wanna chose the (standard) TCP connect scanning and press continue. You will now be asked what ports you want to scan.
Chose to scan a range of ports (the 2'nd option from the top)
and in the box write 49152-65535 (remember too open any firewall you may have on these ports while doing the scan) since these ports are generally unused and rarely protected.
Remember that when you have found an open port you will have to go back in your torrent client (utorrent/azureus/transmission/etc..) and set it too use that port
Windows firewall:
Windows firewall, if you use windows, will probably be on and blocking all your ports, to open them, just follow my lead:
Click Start, click Run, type Firewall.cpl, and then click OK.
Make sure its either set to off or "On (reccommended)", allowing exceptions.
Next go to the "Exceptions tab", Click add port, add it, press OK, Press OK again, done.
Norton Antivirus / Norton Personal Firewall
Open Norton Internet Security or Norton Personal Firewall, Double-click Personal Firewall, Click the Program Control tab.
You should see the list of Application rules.
Click Add. You see the "Select a program" browse window, find and select the executable (.exe) for your client.
Select "Permit", Select a catagory, click OK, done
McAfee
Open up the McAfee Security Center.
Click Internet & Network which is located right in the middle of that window.
To the right of the Internet & Network area click the configure link. Click the Firewall protection is enabled bar on the right side of this window.
Click the Firewall protection is enabled bar on the right side of this window. Click the Program Permissions link in the menu on the left hand side of the window.
Find your client in the Program Permissions list and click it to highlight it.
McAfee does not allow you to determine exactly which ports BitTorrent uses. So you have to "Grant Full Access", which allows all traffic in and out of your computer your client.
When you are done click the Ok button all the way back to the main menu.
P.S. If you have anything to ad or if there is something i haven't covered properly please feel free to post questions/sugestions
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