6) Port Forwarding Router
Port Forwarding
Torrents use a user-specified port when uploading and downloading files. We have already told Transmission that we want to use port 59152. The last step is to forward the torrent port on your router to your new static IP Address.
- Find out the make/model of your router and go to portforward.com’s router page.
- On the router page, select your router.
- On the next page select “BitTorrent.”
- Ignore everything until you see “BitTorrent’s Port for incoming connections”
- Enter 59152.
- Skip down till you see “Please enter the static ip you want to forward to:”
- Enter your static IP Address
- Follow the remaining instructions to set up port forwarding on your router.
After you’re done, you’ll know it’s correct when you see the green light in Transmission’s Advanced preferences.
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after i entered 59152… I entered the static ip BUT it is saying that it couldn’t establish a connection. I tried both safari and firefox…
i’d keep trying, the site may be down at the moment
i went to router(westell versalink-327) then i went to bittorrent put in 59152 then i could not find “Please enter the static ip you want to forward to:” I have tried this multiple times maybe i am making a mistake somewhere. They only thing i found that said anything about my ip address told my to put it in the browser which i did and i tried every ip address i could think of(the original, the new one, the sample one on the page) and nothing happened. So whats up with this?
yea, i looked – either your router is missing a major part of port forwarding, or the guide left it out accidently. so try to find the part in your router -in the port forwarding section- where you specify the IP of the computer.
i got as far as entering the static ip and then got lost. will it still work if i didnt change my static ip to +50? i kept it the same. i just dont understand what i need to do from here.
- For IP Address, use something similar to your old address, but make the last segment of numbers something higher (add 50) so it won’t be accidently assigned to other DHCP clients on your network. For example, if your IP Address was 10.0.1.5, make your new IP Address 10.0.1.55.
Ok I changed it and added 50. I put in the IP and the port number on the page and nothing happened. I put the IP in the address bar in safari and it brought me to something called openDNS guide. It says i tried to visit the IP but isn’t loading. What is supposed to be happening? I’m so confused.
“I put in the IP and the port number on the page and nothing happened.”
-did you press return after entering the ip?
“I put the IP in the address bar in safari”
-why?
I think you need to re-read everything and go one-step-at-a-time. If you’re having a problem with the portfoward site, check there for solutions — also know that sometimes the site doesn’t work, you may have to try again tomorrow.
after entering the router ip address in the browser, i get the error; 192.168.30.1 uses an invalid security certificate. Is it ok to continue on?
I’m using firefox.
(Error code: sec_error_unknown_issuer)
yes