Thought I might share this with others struggling with these issues.
I do music and video downloads through Azureus, and was always perplexed at how slow it was. Apparently I was having NAT problems. I just did not have a healthy connection, apparently due to my router. Azureus recommended setting up a static IP address and then do port forwarding. They have at least 30 pages on how to optimize everything, and admit that NAT problems can be difficult with all the router and software firewall combinations out there. I had spent countless hours over a 2 week period trying to sort out their instructions and got nowhere.
Then I came across a site called Port Forwarding offering free help for setting up your router and Firewall. In about 30 minutes I had my static IP address and port forwarding working. Now I am uploading and downloading five to ten times faster than before. Check it out if you are having problems in this area:
http://portforward.com
You give them your router model and operating system, and the program or game you are trying to get set up, and they come back with very specific instructions . They have it worked out for 100′s of router manufacturer’s and specific model numbers, and for all the usual operating systems and programs. (And if you have a router not on their list, you can submit a request and they will work with you to get it set up, then they add it to their list of supported routers.)
Just wish I had found this site earlier. It would have saved me a ton of time.
-Steve
OK, got my static IP and port forwarding for Azureus (Port 52440) working fine. But now, every morning after doing nightly downloads of music, I have trouble with getting my browser (IE7) to work. Email still works fine (uses ports 110 and 25) and the Azureus downloads are running strong, just the browser won’t work. A re-start of computer gets the browser to work but when I go to Azureus and re-start it, my browser fails again and won’t go to any sites.
I ran a Gateway Diagnostics (Network Diagnostics) it indicates a failure at: TCP port 80 on host 207.46.192.254 could not be reached (Error Code 0x274c) . It looks like the Diagnostics tries 3 other host IPs, all yielding the same error code.
Any ideas what is going on here? Something is going on with port 80. Is that the port my browser uses? If so what might I do to get it working?
I had port 80 engaged in something that I didn’t need in Azureus. Shut that off and web browser is back in action.
Hi Steve,
Sorry for the late response on this and glad to hear it’s fixed – sometimes, we’re lucky and the problem ends up being a small one
Have a great night!
Jim.