How-to: Use your router as a BitTorrent Client

[dolphine]

I have a little problem with my firewall...
when I disable the firewall on the webpage all is going great
when I enable the firewall and set portforwarding 2700:2710 --> 192.168.1.1(Router) It gives me a error in enhanced-ctorrent because I'm downloadin from private trackers and they can't connect to me so can't downlaod from them

Isn't it better to OPEN the ports to your WAN address than to forward them to the LAN?

see my other post in iptables topic, but generally
iptables -I INPUT 7 -p tcp --dport 2700:2710 -j ACCEPT
should do the job for 2700-2710 work

Anyway, due to masquerade is could work also with FW on and no port open

BTW: enhanced-ctorrent uses 2706-2106 as default

Unofrtunately, I am almost unable to get any download to reasonable speed (5-10 times slower than utorrent behing the router) - even disabling the firewall does not work :-(

[back2basic]

thx It worked
my download is only 2-3 times slower than utorrent

[dolphine]

thx It worked
my download is only 2-3 times slower than utorrent

I'm not downloading that much to check - but I suspect that utorrent DHT feature makes the difference (it sees much bigger number of peers). As my line speed is 10Mbit symmetrical it can boost the DL speed to over 500kbit/s with some torrents whereas enhanced-ctorred gets maximally 60-70.

Other reason could be the torrents/trackers I'm downloading from - usually public with few seeds/peers (I guess that's where DHT helps utorrent to find other peers/seeds).

[back2basic]

as I mentioned before I only download from private trackers so I have DHT always disabled
My line speed is adsl2+ max20Mb a good 1600KB down and max 120KB up
when I download on my pc I gat a speed of 1000 down agains 55 up
but when I download with my router the speed is changing to 700 down and 250 up... How can my router upload @ 250 when my max up speed is 120

Grtzz

Ps sorry for the chrappy english (I'm dutch)

[TMownsu]

Probably has to do with how many connections the router can handle at any given time. DHT can help but it wont matter if the client/router can't connect to atleast 50-100 peers if there is that many in the swarm.

[IMM22]

Hi,

I keep getting the same error when trying to download torrent file.

"segmentation fault"

What's happening ?

Thanks !

[qz3fwd]

Here is are 2 dumb question:
1. Since enhanced ctorrent seems to be command line compatible with the asus ctorrent program, why not just replace the ctorrent executable in the custom firmware with your enhanced ctorrent version? That way the asus utilites should work together with the improved torrent client?

2. OR install enhanced ctorrent to the opt directory and change the name to ctorrent. That way if the system finds this ctorrent before the built in asus version it will use the fixed version without the file size limitation?