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alvize

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Topic # 13329 4-May-2007 15:46

Hello averybody, i'm new here!

I have Orcon broadband since 10 days and i can't get Utorrent and Emule working well because of the portforwarding.
Does anybody knows if it's possible port-forwarding with Orcon isp, if it's possible, how do you do that?

I've a netgear wireless router and a D-link modem ( from a previous Xtra account ).

Any help it would be really appreciated!

Cheers,

alvise

Sinn

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Reply # 69523 4-May-2007 17:11

Hi Alvise,

Welcome to Geekzone, port forwarding should work fine with Orcon and utorrent. I just set it up the other day and now isntead of the 4-5K I was getting I'm now getting much better speeds of up to 200K.

Try this link to help you with port forwarding:

http://portforward.com/routers.htm

Cheers,

alvize

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Reply # 69525 4-May-2007 17:44

Hey Sinn,
thanks for your answer. Could you tell me please which is between modem and router that i have to let port-forward?
I'm a little bit confused :-)
When i was with telstra i use to configure the just the router, but now with orocon it seems to not work properly.
Thanks again.
alvise

alvize

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Reply # 69527 4-May-2007 17:55

Hello again!
i've just tryied following the instruction form portforward.com
When i test the ports from emule i've got this error message:
Please wait while the ports of your eMule are being tested...

Testing IP: 60.234.152.169 (60.234.152.169)

Starting TCP connection test...

TCP test failed! UDP test will not be performed.

But i'm sure that i'm forwarding the correct ports from my router.
SHouldi set something on my Modem too?
Thanks!

Alvise

Fossie

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Reply # 69528 4-May-2007 18:21

make sure you made your computer have a static ip...

alvize

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Reply # 69534 4-May-2007 19:32

hello,
i've set a static ip address for my machine which is 192.168.1.136
default gateway 192.168.1.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
i've set orcon dns servers 60.234.1.1 and 60.234.2.2

but when i set the port forwarding on my router ( using 192.168.1.136 as ip address )
i still get this error with emule

Testing IP: 60.234.152.169 (60.234.152.169)

Starting TCP connection test...

TCP test failed! UDP test will not be performed.

I think that maybe it's beacause Orcon doesn't provide static ip addresses?

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Reply # 69537 4-May-2007 20:05

If your router supports UPnP then just enable it and use utorrent and the utorrent program does all the port forwarding by itself via uPnP. No need to manually port forward anything.

Thanks

bradstewart

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Reply # 69538 4-May-2007 20:06

Orcon provides a static IP by default. It doesn't matter whether you have one or not. What you need is a static IP from your router. Make sure you set the port to TCP and UDP when your forward it.

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Reply # 69539 4-May-2007 20:09

Switch uPnP off... If its on your port forwarding probably wont work. uTorrent recommends having it off.

richms

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Reply # 69616 5-May-2007 16:28

bradstewart:
Switch uPnP off... If its on your port forwarding probably wont work. uTorrent recommends having it off.

uPNP is broken on so many pieces of kit they say this to reduce support hassles.

It works great with it when used with most netgear routers, not linksys, seems to die shortly after starting up. the http server for the config file just stopped responding soon after startup, so apps were hanging for ages when trying to communicate with it, and linksyses answer was the typical one of swap the box out for another one.

The problem will be the cascaded nat's that the OP has, cant do that with upnp, its one major shortcoming of the spec that there is no requirement for the wan interface of a upnp enabled nat device to look for another upstream one.

Richard rich.ms