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Port Forwarding / Static Address / Mac User
Just went to FAQ and searched for those terms and got "no matches," so I am wondering if I'm in the right place. Those terms (Port Forwarding and Static Address) are in the router manual, so it's hard...
Forget about static addresses & port forwarding - you're looking in the wrong place.
Every computer attached to a network running the tcp/ip protocols needs to have an ip or internet protocol address, this can be assigned dynamically by what is known as a DHCP server (usually your router) or static (unchanging and manually entered) - the only reason to use a static address is so that the computer will always have the same ip address.
Port forwarding is a procedure required to allow unsolicited connection requests to connect to a computer on the "inside" of a router using NAT (or network address translation), which is a process that allows a single public ip address to be shared by many computers on a network (each of which will have it's own private ip address).
Now - I'm pretty certain that you're no better off having read these explanations - I suspect you lack the networking background to understand them - if you need to know how it works, find a good book on computer networking, maybe a study guide for COMPTIA's Network+ exam - but - as the first sentence of my reply indicates - neither one is the cause of your problem - torrent clients connect from the inside out, so static addresses & port forwarding are not required for them to work.
As a matter of fact, with most consumer routers, you should be able to run a torrent client with NO changes to the router configuration, as long as you can connect to the internet, your torrent client should function - it is possible to prevent torrent usage with a corporate firewall, but most consumer product will not allow that level of control.
Every computer attached to a network running the tcp/ip protocols needs to have an ip or internet protocol address, this can be assigned dynamically by what is known as a DHCP server (usually your router) or static (unchanging and manually entered) - the only reason to use a static address is so that the computer will always have the same ip address.
Port forwarding is a procedure required to allow unsolicited connection requests to connect to a computer on the "inside" of a router using NAT (or network address translation), which is a process that allows a single public ip address to be shared by many computers on a network (each of which will have it's own private ip address).
Now - I'm pretty certain that you're no better off having read these explanations - I suspect you lack the networking background to understand them - if you need to know how it works, find a good book on computer networking, maybe a study guide for COMPTIA's Network+ exam - but - as the first sentence of my reply indicates - neither one is the cause of your problem - torrent clients connect from the inside out, so static addresses & port forwarding are not required for them to work.
As a matter of fact, with most consumer routers, you should be able to run a torrent client with NO changes to the router configuration, as long as you can connect to the internet, your torrent client should function - it is possible to prevent torrent usage with a corporate firewall, but most consumer product will not allow that level of control.