On 10/18/07, Dazed_75 wrote: > I constantly see advice that for using a torrent I should set my > router to port forward a number of ports to the using computer. > Problem is that there may be more than one computer on the LAN using > torrents now that they are so prevalent. For example, I have an old > and a new gaming machine with different games that use torrents for > patch days. I download a lot of Linux distros (normally on a Linux > box) to try and torrents are great for that. I don't typically > download any music but if I did it would be on my media machine. > > So the question is how does one deal with that sine the router can > only forward those ports to a single machine. One thought might be to > forward one or two of those ports to each using machine. How do > people deal with this issue? > I found http://youscrewedup.com/torrent_router_tutorial/ which seems to answer the question in a couple of ways. 1) The name of the site is kinda wierd so I wonder if any of you can verify the information seems legitiimate. 2) According to the NAT section, it seems like it will work if you "just" unblock ports 6881-6889 on the router. I am wondering just how unsafe that might be. Input? 3) Further down in the article under "port forwarding, virtual server" it seems to talk about another method but I am a bit unclear on it. It seems to me that would somehow require the torrent clients on additional machines would have to somehow tell torrent servers to use a different port range than usual and I have not a clue how one would do that. Am I (once again) misreading something? -- The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. - George F. Will --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss