how do i fix this problem? (bittornt qustion)

[dblue]

Why am I listed as not connectable?

The tracker has determined that you are firewalled or NATed and cannot accept incoming connections.

This means that other peers in the swarm will be unable to connect to you, only you to them. Even worse, if two peers are both in this state they will not be able to connect at all. This has obviously a detrimental effect on the overall speed.
The way to solve the problem involves opening the ports used for incoming connections (the same range you defined in your client) on the firewall and/or configuring your NAT server to use a basic form of NAT for that range instead of NAPT (the actual process differs widely between different router models.

The main idea behind being connectable or not is that, being connectable allows more people to connect to you and thus gives you more speed for downloads and uploads, i.e. you will get better speeds if you can accept incoming connections as well. This also will help you seed after finishing your download. On the contrary, being not connectable will affect you download and upload speed and make them lower or even make your upload speed as low as zero when you wish to seed something.

The whole trick behind all of this lies upon something called Port

how do i fix this problem?^^^^^ i have bitlord and i got a routor. do i have to open my ports so more people can connect to me? if so how do i open my ports? im also getting bad upload rates

[jimmalenko]

You need to open the ports that bitlord wishes to use on your router. Do a google search on "open ports <your router model here>" and take it from there.

[redwudz]

Look in BitLord preferences for the 'Listen Port', then access your router, usually with your internet browser program. You usually use the 'Virtual Server' page there. Add your listen port number as a TCP address. If you have Windows firewall, you may have to open it there, also.

Your router manual and the Bitlord site will tell you any other needed info.

[guns1inger]

You may have to port forward your router to allow the traffic through. Some routers make this simpler than others.

[lordsmurf]

Not video. Moved.

[thevoelk]

http://www.portforward.com

Search for your router, and then choose which client for BitTorrent. They also have other apps, such as online games to choose from.

They also have steps for port triggering. I can't rememebr off the top of my head which ports BitTorrent uses, but you should be able to set it both in your client and in your router to use a different range. Some ISPs purposely block the default range of ports, or slow them down. Comcast does in some of the really outlying areas of their service around me (another reason I went with DSL, along with work paying for most of it) to imporve performance.

[Faustus]

You may have to port forward your router to allow the traffic through. Some routers make this simpler than others.

Yes its true, you'll get the best performance usually be forwarding the port in question to the specific machine (IP Address) thats using the port.

[VenGeanCe]

bittorrent uses ports in range 6000-15000 but depending upon router model and ur client forward those many ports only

[Faustus]

bittorrent uses ports in range 6000-15000 but depending upon router model and ur client forward those many ports only

Untrue except perhaps with the basic program, it depend on the client being used. Azureus for example only uses a single port and its quite user configurable.