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fallenangel666

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Hi all,

I am new to torrents and newish to mac.
I am trying to port forward for either utorrent or transmission. I have done the static ip adress according to the port forwarding site but the port is still closed. I have been trying to sort this out for over a month :confused:, so am in need of help from the experts.
Please can someone tell me my problem. I have tried using both of the following routers.
http://www.linksys.com/en-apac/products/routers/E1500
http://www.linksys.com/en-apac/products/routers/WRT54GL
I also have satellite internet from http://www.ipstar.com.au/nbn/

I will check in again when I get home from work tonight. :)

Jo.
 

rabidz7

macrumors 65816
Jun 24, 2012
1,205
3
Ohio
Hi all,

I am new to torrents and newish to mac.
I am trying to port forward for either utorrent or transmission. I have done the static ip adress according to the port forwarding site but the port is still closed. I have been trying to sort this out for over a month :confused:, so am in need of help from the experts.
Please can someone tell me my problem. I have tried using both of the following routers.
http://www.linksys.com/en-apac/products/routers/E1500
http://www.linksys.com/en-apac/products/routers/WRT54GL
I also have satellite internet from http://www.ipstar.com.au/nbn/

I will check in again when I get home from work tonight. :)

Jo.

Are you port fowrding your internal or external ip.
 

LucasLand

macrumors 6502a
Mar 6, 2002
756
92
New England
VPN cause the problems

i had the same problem and discovered the solution and the fix was real easy. In my case I use a VPN. In my VPN settings I had to make sure that "port forwarding" was selected, direct VPN to a canada server and then restart mac. I then hovered mouse over the VPN icon at top of desktop where it showed me the port number. I then inputed port number into transmission and BAM the light turned green.

I didn't have to touch any other settings in transmission or router settings
 
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