Tranmission - Port Forwarding

This happened to me too. . A torrent website has detected that I am not fully connected to the server that's why my files are taking ages to download. Need to open a port to speed up the ins/outs of datas. just hope some torrent experts would be willing to SOS.

 

Go to your router's settings and forward port 9090 to your computer's IP address. Instructions for specific routers here:

http://www.portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/routerindex.htm

 

Hi blackiridium.

marvinp's suggestion is not working probably because random ports are being used.

Try this instead...

Assign/reserve a static ip for your mac and on your router configure DMZ and point it to the ip your mac. The point of DMZ is to expose your mac to the public internet.

hth.

'jopoy

 

Yeah, I also cannot port forward using 9090. And I already sought help throught portforward.com but to no avail. Any help?

I'm using a Linksys WRT54GC:

 

It's not a good idea to access the internet without a firewall so don't turn your mac's firewall off. What you need to do is to configure your router's port forwarding. To do this, you need to assign a static IP for your mac in your router. Then you need to assign the port/s that will be forwarded to the static IP you assigned to your mac. In your torrent client, you need to tell it what port you used in the router. See your router's user manual for instructions on how to do this.

You will then need to configure your mac's network settings so that it uses the static IP you configured in the router.

For transmission, you need to pick either NAT (Incoming TCP Port) or the automatic port mapping checkbox. Not both. So if you want to use port forwarding, you need to unselect the automap checkbox. If you did your router configuration correctly, you'll see transmission confirm that the port is indeed open.

 

@lamski: my router's user manual doesn't tackle this.

 

Try this: Pord forwarding for the Linksys WRT54GC Router.

 

Hope you can help me, lamski.

Here is my router setup:

- PC has the router
- iMac connects to router thru Airport
- I can configure my router thru the PC only

 

Have you tried configuring your router as outlined in portforward.com?

Are you able to access your router's administration page? On any machine connected to your router, open any browser (IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Camino, etc) and type http://192.168.1.1 in the address bar and press enter. You should be prompted for the admin user and password. From there, read the middle part of the link I put above from portforward.com.

 

The thing is, I'm not using BitTorrent. I'm using Transmission. Your link redirects me into configuring a BitTorrent client.

 

Hi Kaloyster.

Transmission is a BitTorrent client.

 

BTW, did you already check Transmission's help? There's a Portforwarding FAQ there with links to instructions on how or what you need to setup on your router. HTH

 

ISPs can sometimes block NAT and port forwarding. On the Azureus FAQ, PLDT is listed as a "bad ISP" because NAT is blocked by their servers. I'm still trying to figure a way around this too.

 

Use a higher but different number for the port. I use 50001-500010.

 

Hi.

Here's my post for Azureus that details how to punch open ports in the OSX's firewall. Just replace the port value with what you have in your Transmission's preferences.

HTH.