nybelle Posted February 23, 2007 CID Share Posted February 23, 2007 Hi there, Here's my situation: I set up port forwarding to increase my bitcomet speeds. It seems though that unless my laptop that is running bitcomet is up, all the other machines accessing the wireless network cannot get to the web. What did I do wrong? Thanks for any input! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted February 23, 2007 CID Share Posted February 23, 2007 Hi there, Here's my situation: I set up port forwarding to increase my bitcomet speeds. It seems though that unless my laptop that is running bitcomet is up, all the other machines accessing the wireless network cannot get to the web. What did I do wrong? Thanks for any input! First off, I was not aware that port forwarding would do anything as far as speed , other than specify which computer the packets are to be sent to wich box, in case on a VPN , of ftp, or gaming ect. You have DSL, so you need to make sure the modem is in bridge mode and DHCP is on unless you have another router that is set up to lease ip's,(in this case turn off DHCP server ), then release and renew all dhcp. With my knowledge, the only way that other machines on the network will not connect to internet unless this one is on, would be if you had it set up as host and all others to connect through it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted February 23, 2007 CID Share Posted February 23, 2007 http://www.portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/Actiontec/MI-424-WR/BitComet.htm that should help ya BTW welcome to the forum! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nybelle Posted February 23, 2007 Author CID Share Posted February 23, 2007 Sorry, I guess I should have been more clear. We just upgraded to FIOS with Verizon. I followed the instructions on Portforward.com to do the forwarding. Now it seems that the other pcs on the network are being routed (?) thru the laptop to get out to the web, and unless it's turned on they can't connect. Does that make any sense at all?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted February 23, 2007 CID Share Posted February 23, 2007 Ahhh... That is the UPnP taking.. See if you shut that off it the problems go away.. You may want to chage to uTorrent.. it is a lot easier to setup and only requires the mapping of one TCP port to function correctly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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