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This guide will help you turn this pesky yellow triangle into a nice green circle in uTorrent through port forwarding. Making that icon green will get you better download speeds, and thus, more happiness.
You may have noticed that I haven’t mentioned Azureus. Well, I just put that in the title, because I promised a friend (C-man) I would tell him how to do this for Azureus. You will see in this guide that explaining how to do this for uTorrent basically explains how to do it for any bittorrent client. On to the tutorial…
Opening ports for a bittorrent client has nothing to do with the bittorrent client (well, except for the port number….that’s kind of important). Opening ports is all about working with your router’s settings. I will be using a Netgear router for this tutorial. Most routers’ have very similar settings and options, so it shouldn’t matter if you don’t have a Netgear router.
Step 1: Find out what port your program uses.
I use uTorrent, but you may use a different BitTorrent client. In just about every BitTorrent clients’ options, there is a place to change the port it uses. For uTorrent, you just go to Options->Preferences, and the connection options pop right up. As you can see below, the port is 17120. Make sure you write down this port. You’ll need it later.
Step 2: Find out your network IP address.
Click on your start menu, and select run. Once the run box is up, type “cmd” in the box.
Now, a dos-like box will open up. Type in ipconfig and press enter.
Next, you will get a result like this.
Write down the IP address as you’ll need this later.
Step 3: Log into your router settings page.
This can be done by entering 192.168.1.1 into the address bar of your browser. After you have done this, you should be promoted to log into the router settings page. The default username is “admin” and the default password is “password”.
Step 4: Click on Port Forwarding/Port Triggering
Step 5: Select port forwarding and click on add custom service.
Depending on your router, you may come across different menus here. In any case, you want to make sure click on add a port and the forward option.
Step 6: Forward your port from Step 1.
Now, you should be given a few different fields to fill in about the port you are forwarding. First, you want to give the port a name. I usually just name it the same as the program it is associated with, so in this case it would be uTorrent. Second, you want the port to be open for both TCP and UDP. Next, you put in the port from Step 1. It may ask for a range, but you can just put the same number for both the starting and ending ports. Finally, you put in your server IP address as found in Step 2.
Congratulations! Now, you should be able to download and share much faster!
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Thanks! Worked perfectly. My dl speeds have tripled!
Wow. Ive looked at lots of tutorials trying to set it up. I finally got it. Thanks!
But what if you don’t have a router?!
marinus:
I’m not sure.
when i enter the IP adress on the website ..it gives me “adress not valid” ..can som1 pls help me !!! i have a netgear
What address are you putting in and what router do you have?
i m not able to log in the browser i types ip address in the adress bar i m not able to log in the page can not be displayed can u have another solution?
I’ve never had this problem before. You might want to try using a different browser or consult your router manual to make sure that is the right ip address.
Use http://www.portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/routerindex.htm to find your router and the specific way of configuring port forwarding.
hey when i log in to my router settings i dont any option like “Click on Port Forwarding/Port Triggering’….please help…i’m hvin 256 kbps n only get a speed of 20….this isnt fair..please help…
@Harshad You may want to check the website Jason posted above. Otherwise, I’m not sure. What type of router do you have?
well makr.. i think u can check this ip address 192.168.1.254.. i think it will help u..
How can I open the port required for Utorrent if I dont use a router? Is it possible?
You would have to open it in Windows by going to the Firewall options.
I can’t open 192.168.1.1 Why?Please help me
oh and i don’t use router
Halp i cant get my ports open either. this is what ive done so far…
Diabled zone alarm
Disabled avg
Disabled windows firewall
I got as far as step 3 but i dont get any log in details.. it just goes to a google search for the IP 192.168.1.1
I just dont get it as it work a few weeks ago before i had to format my dirve and reinstal everything all over again. I have SP2.
I cant think of anyting else to do.
ALot of people are depending on me for these downloads and i need some help please.
thanks
H
I see my gateway ip needs to be changed?? the last three digits are .254 not .1
Im in aussie do i need to contact my isp to do it? i used to be able to log into my router when i first got the new one.. but ive lost the details and cant remember how to do it now.
thanks
H