corewerkz

Great tutorial, but I’m having trouble getting away from the red stealth light. I have AT&T cable, so I’m pretty sure it’s a static IP. I went to the portforward link, chose my router (2wire 3800HGV-B), clicked bittorrent, found 1 box about a port number and entered the number you gave, but couldn’t find anything else. Is that page supposed to be a guide? There was only one box on there and nothing else. Please help!

hi will,

yes, the portforward site is only a guide to show you how to portforward on your particular router. basically, just do what it says on your router at home.

the box you’re typing the number into on the portforward site is only to autofill that number in the correct places throughout the portforward web page — it’s not really a necessary step, but helpful.

your wan/isp ip address is of no concern for torrents, static/dynamic-it doesn’t matter. your local computer’s ip address may matter, you should probably set that to a manual ip address as explained above.

again, your router’s ip address (both wan & lan) is insignificant. your torrent computer’s ip address should be static, because this is the address you are forwarding the torrent port to (i.e. port 59152 goes to your computer at 10.0.2.39 which is a static ip address).

get it?

I think so, but in that guide, it’s telling me to do things in bittorrent. Do I just not do those steps because we’re using transmission?

in transmission, set port to 59152.

go to portforward page you metioned. ignore everything on that page up to, “BitTorrent’s Port for incoming connections.”

in the box type: 59152

follow remaining instruction on the page, logging into your router at 192.168.1.254. or whatever it’s ip address is, edit firewall settings, etc.

make sure where it tell you “Use the Select a computer box to choose a computer to forward ports to” that you are selecting YOUR computer’s name — the computer running Transmission.

i have just bought a new imac and have been looking for a new torrent especially after being a pc user .i have found your site most informative and will be downloading transmission asap thanks bandit1956.

Well i did all the said instructions but still end up getting the port as stealth…not sure why any ideas?

first things first, loose your router and see if the port is stealth. if so, your computer or isp is the problem. if not, it’s your router. go from there…

Okay. I’m having issues. I’m pretty sure I don’t have a static IP (according to the folks at Apple, I don’t) so I followed the steps as closely as I could, although the middle six steps aren’t so clear and the windows look a bit different, but the port is STILL closed. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. I have an AirPort Extreme if that helps anyone help me… Thanks.

Nevermind. I got it.