Port Forwarding difficulty with uTorrent
Lion:
I searched for port forwarding, but nothing came up. Since I see quite some people are using uTorrent, maybe I can find help from people with experience.
I'm stuck at "set up static IP address" in setting up uTorrent to download (I'm trying to download the IKEA stuff). I Got DNS servers addresses right (both from command and from calling my ISP. The rep kept asking why do I need the addresses, and said you need Business account to have static IP address, and then said it will break the router...). I also found my ISP listed in the DNS server addresses thread at uTorrent help forum, they are the same as what I found.
I don't mind buying the XP, but If I can't get it to download, I won't be able to get no-CD crack for Apartment, which I will buy but I'm sure it has super SecuRom. Without a crack, I'm definitely not buying Apartment. Forget about Sims3. :'(
I got this help from witch:
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Do you go through a router? My router gets assigned a dynamic IP address on the internet as a matter of course, but each of my machines have a static IP within the home network. That works for uttorrent. Usually static IPs on the net are for business and webpages and so on.
If you have a modem, I don't know how that works.
So the rep was not completely full of BS. Good question, I thought what I have is a router. Now that I looked at it again, it says "RCA USB Cable Modem" in Network Connections (so it is a modem?). But I followed the port forwarding guide, everything turned up exactly as said (screen shots and everything), except, it doesn't work in the end. The connection uses a dynamic IP address. Once I set it up as the guide says, it gets disconnected.
Help!
Also, what protection do you guys have against possible legal action from EA and such when you torrent stuff? I read wiki on file sharing and SecuRom, I'm a little worried.
witch:
In my router - 10.1.1.1 is the address in IE - I also have to setup special ports for each machine. So machine 9 might run on one port and machine 13 another. Have you set up the ports in the router/modem, whatever you have? There was another section for rules that I didn't find was the same on portforward.
Doc Doofus:
Here you go:
http://www.portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/routerindex.htm
They have a port forwarding guide for just about all routers.
You do not need a static IP to use utorrent.
As for legal problems, well, you won't have any, although it's up to you, how you deal with the ethics of it. For instance, I have a close friend, a very, very close friend, who has downloaded all of the EPs and the base game, too, and paid for none of them, ever since the game first came out. It's simply awful to consider. But that's what he has done, and he'll have to live with the shame, although, when you think about the money he saved, he may live with it very well. I'm just assuming.
witch:
Lion mentioned s/he'd been to portforward in the thread this split from, Doc. The screendumps matched the router/modem and all.
Doc Doofus:
You have a cable modem but no router?
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