How to do it with an AirPort base station:
http://www.blueskyis.com/bittorrent/airportforwarding.php

Posted at 1:34 am on Nov 7th, 2004 by macgyvr64

I don’t mean to be an asshole, but since when was port forwarding a hack?

I hope this won’t be a one-stop-solution for everything nistead of hacks in the future.

Posted at 6:00 am on Nov 7th, 2004 by sundby

i agree with sunby. port forwarding is hardly a hack. it is practically common knowledge.

i love this site, but come on.

Posted at 10:34 am on Nov 7th, 2004 by BENTHEO

Well, Like i always say ” Keep on a GOOD hack”… As i thought “Opening the Hardware and change into a soup!” Tons of flavor soups… That changing the stuff inside into something useful, neat, strong, and magical… This site’s pretty cool.. it’s only one thing for one day… I like that..

Keep on a good hack…
Deaf

Posted at 12:30 pm on Nov 7th, 2004 by deaf

This doesn’t even come close to solving the problems that a P2P app causes, such as opening so many connections, or resolving so many names that the routers memory fills up and the device crashes!

Come on guys, this is bull!

Posted at 3:17 pm on Nov 7th, 2004 by Jordie

To me this would be great if I could figure it out. Currently I am using a Belkin router. Can anyone help me out? Thank you in advance.

Posted at 4:53 am on Nov 8th, 2004 by rick

aww come on! This is BS. I thought this was going to be some cool software that could do load balancing, or filtering bogus seaders, etc.
This is lame. I would have expected more from this site.

Posted at 10:34 am on Nov 8th, 2004 by tofu

regarding tofu’s comment above: you should look at the Sveasoft firmware for Linksys routers. The pre-release ($20/yr subscription) Alchemy versions of the firmware provides a variety of load management tools that are ideal for use in environments where torrenting takes place:

http://www.sveasoft.com/modules/phpBB2/index.php

Posted at 11:31 am on Nov 8th, 2004 by SYFer

Straight port-forwarding is a primitive way to do it anyway. On a Linksys, update to the latest firmware and enable UPnP on the setup page. Allow the uPnP service on whatever software firewall you use and use Azerus as your Bittorrent client. It’s much simpler that port forwarding, there’s no full-time blocking of ports—uPnP only takes what it needs, and you can torrent to more than one client behind the router.

Posted at 12:23 pm on Nov 8th, 2004 by nobby

Hardly a hack , port forward is mandatory for P2P for years, only difference here is that BT client tend to use more than a single port…

i love this site but i believe it has a huge charge to come up to, supplying a hack a day is a difficult task, lets hope this article today is not the begining of filling.

Posted at 12:33 pm on Nov 8th, 2004 by M4tt

give it a break… 1 non-hack out of 100 is not a bad thing. relax!

Posted at 2:30 pm on Nov 8th, 2004 by Pedro

pedro, I’m not dissing the whole site, in fact I love it and I have loved it since it’s they posted their first hacks. But that won’t stop me form telling them when they do something I don’t like, cause that’s what comments are for, getting feedback on content. If I was the hostmaster I would want people to both give positive and negative comments so I could know what they wanted.

Oh, and since I’m already at it, I wouldn’t mind it terribly if you guys turned of this *convert comments to all-lowercase* thing, because it looks like we’re a bunch of illiterate kiddies :P

Keep up the good work!

Posted at 1:31 am on Nov 11th, 2004 by sundby

hah! i just noticed the above comment . . . first of all, lowercase != illiterate kiddies. was e.e. cummings an illiterate kid? also, i think you meant “if you guys turned _off_ this *convert comments to all-lowercase thing*”, not _of_, right? you illiterate kiddy.

lover of lowercase,

-kyds3k

Posted at 9:38 am on Nov 18th, 2004 by KYDS3K

maybe you guys can help me with something..

i recently moved to a new apartment complex that gave free ethernet, but since i got here i’ve been unable to download on bittorrent at more than 1kbps. i’m pretty sure it’s just a matter of finding and opening some ports, but i don’t have access to the apartment’s firewall. is there any way to get around this? i’d prefer to do it without any actual “hacking,” but at this point i’m kinda desperate.

-julie

Posted at 8:40 pm on Sep 27th, 2005 by julie