I am thinking about signing up for telstraclear, but saw on the faq that you can't make a static ip address.. I've been told that a static ip address is required for using utorrent and when I did create a static ip address along with port forwarding ofcourse my speeds increased dramatically.
I was just wondering how not being able to create a static ip address will affect utorrent?
There should be no need for a static IP address from your ISP. The only place you'll want a static address is on your network card on your computer, but this is only if you are accessing the internet via a router. A static address makes it easier to set up the manual port forwarding rules required for uTorrent to run well. Even this static address isn't essential, as uTorrent has ways and means of telling modern routers to forward the traffic automatically for you without any configuration.
To determine if it is necessary, start up uTorrent then go into the Speed Guide (on the Tools menu I think) then down the bottom there is a button to check if the necessary port is forwarded correctly. All going well, your web browser should open up and show a green "OK". If not, look up the brand of your router on this site for infomation on how to configure it.
Hmm I'm sure that's where I went for my current router to do port forwarding and I had to set up a static ip, but I'll double check and do a bit of digging.
You do not need a static WAN IP for bit torrent, by WAN IP I mean the ADSL Router's External (WAN) IP assigned by your ISP.
If your ADSL router supports Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) you don't need any static IP addresses at all. If it doesn't you may need to change your PC (or mac)'s IP address from DHCP to manually assigned and manually forward a port to that IP address in your router.
So best case no manually set IP's, worst case you need to change your PC's local ip address (nothing to do with your ISP).
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