Increase Torrent Download Speed using Port Forwarding ( Router Part )

Some torrent user might experiences slow p2p files download due to lack of router configuration such as port forwarding features or internal router firewall security blocking. Because mostly of the router default configuration has activate the firewall security to block all incoming bit torrent connection. Meanwhile, lack of router setting on port forward features or enable uPnP features might cause the torrent data transferring reach the destination on local area network slow or blocked

Example : Torrent client use TCP port number 6881 as default port and there are more than one computer on local area network. Whenever any torrent data reach your router using port 6881, the router doesn’t know where should the bit torrent data directed which local computer that have activate BitTorrent client

How To Increase Torrent Download Speed using router configuration:

• Firewalls can block nearly all of the ports used by P2P clients. To ensure the BitTorrent ports are made available to requesting clients. Turn off the router firewall and enable uPnP features allow the BitTorrent ports to pass through.
• Firewalls can block nearly all of the ports used by P2P clients. To ensure the BitTorrent ports are made available to requesting clients, a home router or firewall can be manually configured to accept them. Most home routers possess a feature called “Port Range Forwarding” to do this. This feature allows the administer to tell the firewall where traffic for a given port number should be directed. Example : you can set the port forwarding setting and ip address is your computer ip address like below :
• A BitTorrent client normally associates the TCP port number 6881. However, if this port is busy for some reason or there are other bit torrent client using the same port, the client will instead try successively higher ports (6882, 6883, and so on up to a limit of 6999). In order for outside BitTorrent clients to reach this one, they must be able to connect to the correct port.
• For BitTorrent, many home users set up port forwarding on the TCP range 6881-6889. These ports must be directed to the computer running the BitTorrent client. If more than one computer on the network may run BitTorrent, a different range such as 6890-6899 or 6990-6999 can be used for each. Remember that BitTorrent uses ports in the 6881-6999 only.

i hopes this configuring the router port forward features and changing the bit torrent client ports will benefit to torrent user to improve p2p files downloading speed. Especially some country internet services provider like to limit the connection offered on the these bit torrent ports. Hope that this torrent tips can help you increase torrent downloading speed significantly.