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Port fowarding is awesome.....

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NokiaDude

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I set Kazaa to use a specific port to recieve incomming connections. Then I went in my router and used "Virtual Server" to foward the port to my computer. Now Kazaa Lite downloads stuff blazingly fast. I thought it was Kazaa Lite itself, I was totally wrong.
 
What does forwarding the port do that makes it faster? Are you on a college campus where they block or limit speed on those ports?
 
Originally posted by: AgaBooga
What does forwarding the port do that makes it faster? Are you on a college campus where they block or limit speed on those ports?
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That would be the only reason I could think why you would want to forward Kazaa's ports....
 
Originally posted by: AgaBooga
What does forwarding the port do that makes it faster? Are you on a college campus where they block or limit speed on those ports?
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I believe it makes a "tunnel" for the data to go straight to your computer, instead of having to wait and find your PC on the network. This tunnel is like the carpool lane on the freeway, all the other traffic has to go the speed of traffic, while the data on the "carpool" lane goes straight to its destination alot faster. Or maybe my built in firewall takes time to inspect the data and finds out where it's going to which slows it down, with port fowarding it says, "okay, go on through".
 
Originally posted by: NokiaDude
Originally posted by: AgaBooga
What does forwarding the port do that makes it faster? Are you on a college campus where they block or limit speed on those ports?
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I believe it makes a "tunnel" for the data to go straight to your computer, instead of having to wait and find your PC on the network. This tunnel is like the carpool lane on the freeway, all the other traffic has to go the speed of traffic, while the data on the "carpool" lane goes straight to its destination alot faster. Or maybe my built in firewall takes time to inspect the data and finds out where it's going to which slows it down, with port fowarding it says, "okay, go on through".
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As long as you request the data your firewall will not block it, it is only there to block data that you didn't request. At least that is the way most home router/firewalls work.
 
Originally posted by: MCrusty
Originally posted by: NokiaDude
Originally posted by: AgaBooga
What does forwarding the port do that makes it faster? Are you on a college campus where they block or limit speed on those ports?
Click to expand...
I believe it makes a "tunnel" for the data to go straight to your computer, instead of having to wait and find your PC on the network. This tunnel is like the carpool lane on the freeway, all the other traffic has to go the speed of traffic, while the data on the "carpool" lane goes straight to its destination alot faster. Or maybe my built in firewall takes time to inspect the data and finds out where it's going to which slows it down, with port fowarding it says, "okay, go on through".
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As long as you request the data your firewall will not block it, it is only there to block data that you didn't request. At least that is the way most home router/firewalls work.
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I think my router is dumb and makes the firewall inspect everything that passes through. I really want a Linksys soon.
 
Virtual Server is a feature on D-link routers... I never thought any differently of it than port forwarding or DMZ on a lynksis or other router, but considering I am dealing with college bandwith limmitations per port, if there is a way I can get around that stuff for my outgoing connections (I dont want to be a server) It would certainly be worth playing around with.

<trods off to find the dlink manual...
 
Originally posted by: NokiaDude
Originally posted by: MCrusty
Originally posted by: NokiaDude
Originally posted by: AgaBooga
What does forwarding the port do that makes it faster? Are you on a college campus where they block or limit speed on those ports?
Click to expand...
I believe it makes a "tunnel" for the data to go straight to your computer, instead of having to wait and find your PC on the network. This tunnel is like the carpool lane on the freeway, all the other traffic has to go the speed of traffic, while the data on the "carpool" lane goes straight to its destination alot faster. Or maybe my built in firewall takes time to inspect the data and finds out where it's going to which slows it down, with port fowarding it says, "okay, go on through".
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As long as you request the data your firewall will not block it, it is only there to block data that you didn't request. At least that is the way most home router/firewalls work.
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I think my router is dumb and makes the firewall inspect everything that passes through. I really want a Linksys soon.
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I doubt your router is dumb, it is prolly a standard NAT firewall. There isn't much room to be dumb...

 
Originally posted by: NokiaDude
I set Kazaa to use a specific port to recieve incomming connections. Then I went in my router and used "Virtual Server" to foward the port to my computer. Now Kazaa Lite downloads stuff blazingly fast. I thought it was Kazaa Lite itself, I was totally wrong.
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uh.. I don't understand how port fowarding makes things faster. All it does is skip the NAT layer. Shouldn't be much overhead for any decent router.
 
Originally posted by: fivespeed5
Originally posted by: NokiaDude
I set Kazaa to use a specific port to recieve incomming connections. Then I went in my router and used "Virtual Server" to foward the port to my computer. Now Kazaa Lite downloads stuff blazingly fast. I thought it was Kazaa Lite itself, I was totally wrong.
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uh.. I don't understand how port fowarding makes things faster. All it does is skip the NAT layer. Shouldn't be much overhead for any decent router.
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My router is a crappy SMC, from 1999. I don't know why but port forwarding just makes downloads faster. :hs:
 
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