'Port forwarding' confusion!

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Hi,

I have Airtel internet connection with 220BX modem in bridged mode with Linksys WRT54GS router (official firmware). Connection is made using PPoE dialing from router and router has inbuilt upnp support. I use utorrent with a random upnp port over Windows XP.

My question is - Will it be useful if I abandon using upnp port in utorrent and do a manual port forwarding in Linksys router? Or are my settings as good as they can be?

Thanks!
 
get rid of upnp

do a manual port forward

restart router twice...

its better than upnp and crap... atleast thats the way i do it!
 
What is the advantage of manual port opening over upnp?

Are you suggesting I should disable upnp option in the router too? Won't it affect other services such as Skype?
 
UPnP is a protocol that allows any UPnP capable application/device to open ports as and when required on a router that also supports UPnP. The advantage is that you don't need to assign a static IP on your computer and create a manual port forward rule.

The problem is that on most Linksys routers, the stock firmware does a pretty botched-up job of implementing UPnP properly. Which version is your WRT54GS? If it supports it, I'd suggest you flash the router to Tomato or DD-WRT. Both these firmwares do a much better job of implementing UPnP. It actually works!!
 
My Linksys WRT54GS is Version 6. I recently upgraded its firmware to latest official version. Linksys claims in Firmware Release Note that they improved uPnP & Bittorrent support.

I am thinking of sticking with official firmware for now. I will keep uPNP enabled in router but disable it in uTorrent and do a manual port forwarding only for utorrent.

BTW, if I use only one PC with utottent on a wired connection, does it still makes sense to do port forwarding?
 
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