help with bittorrent please - won't start

I've been attempting to set up bittorrent on my computer on my home
network. I have previously had that working when I had DSL, but last
summer I changed to cable modem. Currently there is a Motorola SB5120
cable modem, running to a linksys wrt54g wireless router, then a linksys
ezxs55w switch to which I'm connected. I've tried with both Gentoo and
Ubuntu with qtorrent and azureus - the result is always a failure to
connect. If I try the azureus nat/firewall test I always get a nat error.
The motorola surfboard has basically no setup parameters. I've set port
forwarding on the wireless router.

Anyone have experience with a mess like this?

thanks in advance.

On 2007-04-19 21:23, ray wrote:
> I've been attempting to set up bittorrent on my computer on my home
> network. I have previously had that working when I had DSL, but last
> summer I changed to cable modem. Currently there is a Motorola SB5120
> cable modem, running to a linksys wrt54g wireless router, then a linksys
> ezxs55w switch to which I'm connected. I've tried with both Gentoo and
> Ubuntu with qtorrent and azureus - the result is always a failure to
> connect. If I try the azureus nat/firewall test I always get a nat error.
> The motorola surfboard has basically no setup parameters. I've set port
> forwarding on the wireless router.
>
> Anyone have experience with a mess like this?
>
> thanks in advance.

You must select a high port for your incoming traffic , for example
55555 or something.

Open it for tcp and udp in your firewall, and then configure your wireless
router to forward incoming tcp and udp traffic to your machine.

And of course configure azureus or whatever to listen on this port.

/birre

On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:07:49 +0200, birre wrote:

> On 2007-04-19 21:23, ray wrote:
>> I've been attempting to set up bittorrent on my computer on my home
>> network. I have previously had that working when I had DSL, but last
>> summer I changed to cable modem. Currently there is a Motorola SB5120
>> cable modem, running to a linksys wrt54g wireless router, then a linksys
>> ezxs55w switch to which I'm connected. I've tried with both Gentoo and
>> Ubuntu with qtorrent and azureus - the result is always a failure to
>> connect. If I try the azureus nat/firewall test I always get a nat error.
>> The motorola surfboard has basically no setup parameters. I've set port
>> forwarding on the wireless router.
>>
>> Anyone have experience with a mess like this?
>>
>> thanks in advance.
>
> You must select a high port for your incoming traffic , for example
> 55555 or something.

I've done that.

>
> Open it for tcp and udp in your firewall, and then configure your wireless
> router to forward incoming tcp and udp traffic to your machine.

I've done that. It seems like the cable modem must be stopping things but
it is not configurable. I'm hoping someone with that same cable modem
might offer some suggestions.

>
> And of course configure azureus or whatever to listen on this port.
>
> /birre