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Saturday, February 14, 2009

Importance of Port Forwarding in Torrent Clients

Many of us download stuffs like movies,music , games from torrents so it really matters how much speed you get, when you download huge file of size more than 1GB.

Most of the torrent clients use some random port numbers such as 55600. It is really important to allow the incoming connections on this port. When you open your torrent client, if a Yellow Triangle is displayed in connection status bar, it means the port has not been forwarded properly. and in these cases you get nearly 2 % of the actual download speed.

Following are steps forward the port properly.

- Make an Virtual Server entry in your router entry. It will be created automatically in some of the routers after you install the torrent client.

-Add an Exception to this port number in your Antivirus and Windows Firewall

-Restart your Torrent Client

Green icon gets displayed in the connection status bar. If your internet connection speed is 2mbps, you will get download speed of 170Kbps(depends on torrent factors) in your torrent client.





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