Port Forwarding Help Needed

[bilko]

please help, im always getting a yellow light, i have a mentor adsl modem/router and have forwarded ports 6881 - 6889 and 6969 with TCP via the VPN section of the configuartion site, is this the correct page, is so what does private and public ports mean?

i have tired 2 things

private port - 6881 / public port - 6999 / TCP

as well as

private port - 6881 / public port - 6881 / TCP
(this is repeated up to 6889)

as you can see i've tired forwarding the whole block as well as individually but still a yellow light, anyone else have this router?

please help, screen shots would be great, oh also i diabled all of my firewall software on my PC, help me get the green light! oh and i've left a couple bt running at home while im at work see whaty they are like when im home

[99shassan]

By the way you forward the ports 6881-6999
not 6881 - 6889

[bilko]

woo hoo!!! yeah i have a crap router that only lets me forward 20 ports, before i forwarded them i got 5k max
i forwarded ports 6881 - 6899 and 6969 and can now d/l at 100k....sweet

i was cursin bt a day ago but once you sort out the settings its brilliant
from what i can see there is no need to forward all the was to 6999

thanks for all the help, this forum is perfect

[bilko]

oh and i gotta green light

anyone that has forwarded and still can seem to get the speeds, i recommend uninstalling the bt software - shadows in my case - and then reinstalling it and it works fine

[muchspl2]

Originally posted by 99shassan@24 February 2004 - 14:18
By the way you forward the ports 6881-6999
not 6881 - 6889

incorrect
that is leaving more holes open than you need
by opening 6881-6889 you have the possibility to have 9 different torrents open at the same time, more than enough, more is only a security risk
please don't recommend that as it is incorrect
http://www.dessent.net/btfaq/#ports

[99shassan]

ok, thanks for the info