Port Forwarding

[Skinny]

So when using Utorrent. Sometimes the port forwards fine and sometimes its limited by a firewall....

Is there any reason as to why its inconsistent?

Also i'm on sky if it makes any difference.

Ta.x

 

[JackoR26]

You need to port forward on your router mate but thats a whole other can or worms lol

 

[stooby]

It shouldnt change as to wether it's forawrded by the same prgram. Once you set it to forward via your router settings it should stay forwarded.

 

[Alex H]

Does your connection to the router change? If you were the only device connected when you set it up, you'd have been allocated one IP address, which could change depending on other things being connected on different days. I had these problems, ended up forwarding to a small range of IPs that I knew my computer would be allocated (192.168.0.2-6)

 

[Andy.]

i had a similar problem when i used to use it as the router had rules applied on a pc level rather than for all. If the desktop picked up another ip from the router when it logged on, the rule would not work and i would have to add another one. Might be worth checking.

^haha, i was beaten to it.

 

[Skinny]

Ah yeah. Didn't think of that, wireless connection whereby my ip on the network switches around.


Guess ill have to dig up the sky password and go and change the router settings, giving my self a static ip and making sure its forwarded on the ip.

 

[JackoR26]

i had a similar problem when i used to use it as the router had rules applied on a pc level rather than for all. If the desktop picked up another ip from the router when it logged on, the rule would not work and i would have to add another one. Might be worth checking.

You could set your pc to the static ip

 

[Adam]

Yeah you need your local (pc) connection on a static IP.

 

[Andy.]

You could set your pc to the static ip

Yes, i ended up doing that in the end. It took me a while to work out what was going on though.

 

[Skinny]

Yeah cheers, completely missed that line of thought.... makes sense now.

 

[PinkoCommie]

Ah yeah. Didn't think of that, wireless connection whereby my ip on the network switches around.


Guess ill have to dig up the sky password and go and change the router settings, giving my self a static ip and making sure its forwarded on the ip.

IIRC, as sky routers are just netgears, you should be able to put a dhcp reservation in for your PC, so it'll be setup via DHCP, but will always give you the same IP.

 

[Chapperz]

www.portforward.com or net - all the help and advice you should need!

 

[iain187]

IIRC, as sky routers are just netgears, you should be able to put a dhcp reservation in for your PC, so it'll be setup via DHCP, but will always give you the same IP.

I have done this on my sky/netgear router, can be done!