Opening port with Irish Broadband HELP!!

bishop brennan

Hoping someone could tell me in basic english how to do this!
Just got breeze 2MB installed but trying to download files from certain sites i keep seeing this thing about opening ports and id be afraid to go messing with it as im not all that clued up on all these terms:o
I'm finding downloading certain things is nearly as slow as my old dial up and other than that speeds are fine.
Am i even posting in the right forum or should i be in computers??
Hope someone can help me out!

The Fool

Are you using a router or directly connected?
Are you using a firewall?

Gran Hermano

www.portforward.com is your friend

All you need is the make/model of your router or modem/router
and the name of the program you want to use.
It'll give you a step by step guide .. even with pics

bishop brennan

Thanks for the replys folks.
The router i have is the one for the talk package "netgear ta612vsp" on a google search i found portforward site but its not listed

bishop brennan

Should i ring IBB and ask them?It seems a waste having broadband and not being able to get stuff fast.

bishop brennan

No ideas on this so folks?Don't know how to do this!!:o

thebman

Well where is it being blocked?

Irish Broadband don't block ports and the firewall on the router isn't setup to block ports for P2P default AFAIK so it depends on your settings. It most likely is just the windows firewall (assuming your using windows firewall) blocking the port. Just add the program to the allow list in the windows firewall options in control panel.

brim4brim

brim4brim wrote:

Irish Broadband don't block ports

Used to think so but my (well seeded) torrents have been crawling recently, although my connection maxes out for everything else.

chaostik

Deleted User wrote:

Used to think so but my (well seeded) torrents have been crawling recently, although my connection maxes out for everything else.

Indeed, let me guess: for roughly the last two weeks? If I'm right, please please help by contributing to the other thread on this forum I started about IBB's packet loss issues:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055095017

If you are able to try the packet capture I describe there it would help verify my hypothesis about there being packet loss on IBB atm.

Thanks

ouldscratch

Chaostik have you ever heard of a fixed wireless provider that didn't lose packets. There is no such thing. Packet loss is unavoidable if you don't want it then get DSL.

gerryo

Deleted User wrote:

Used to think so but my (well seeded) torrents have been crawling recently, although my connection maxes out for everything else.

That could be traffic shaping, which reduces speed on some ports to maximise BW for other ports. Not sure if IBB are doing it, but it's a possible reason.

ouldscratch

True. Those people that are losing packets could be sharing their transmission with a business on a 4:1 contention

thebman

Deleted User wrote:

Used to think so but my (well seeded) torrents have been crawling recently, although my connection maxes out for everything else.

We had this problem recently. I set the bittorrent ports to use port 80 instead and encrypted the connection. It works perfectly now.