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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i figured it out!!! for everyone who is havin the same problem, you should try putting your router number instead of your ip address into the url bar…worked for me. might work for you to.
It seems that port forwarding download is only for PC (Windows) versions. I have a Mac and wanted to port forward for Bittorrent client “Transmission”. Do they have version for Mac? (I didnt want to pay for download only to find out I can not use it on my Mac computer.) Please let know ASAP if I will also be able to use it for my Mac.
I had the same problem with not finding a place to enter my static i.p., what i did was type into the browser my router i.d. Then I logged into my router and clicked on Static NAT, i then entered the static i.p. address there (which is the ip address plus 50)…. after I did this my downloads started working… Thanks for this helpful how to, greatly appreciated