By kluelos
From forum_name, BitComet Forum
First, take a look here:
http://forums.bitcomet.com/index.php?showt...ost&p=45711Your router has two sides. THere's a WAN side that connects to your modem and ISP, and gets an assigned address in the 88.55.xxx.xxx range. You have to set that side up the way your provider instructs you too, and leave it alone.
Then there's a LAN side. Your computer connects to this side. You pretty much control how this side gets set up.
On this side, the router has a completely different address, valid only on this lan, and only in terms of devices connected to that side of it.
Now, you get confusing. There are two commonly-used address blocks which are reserved for LANs, and your router should probably use one or the other of them. But you say instead that your router has "an address example" of 00.00.00.00
That's weird. It makes me think somebody's been mucking around with it and didn't know what they were doing. Is that what the address really is? If so, is it in the manual that way?
If not, then you need to find out how to reset the thing to its factory defaults. This is usually a little bit difficult to do, intentionally so because it shouldn't be easy to do by accident. you've usually got to stick a pin in a little hole and depress a button in there for ten seconds, or something like that.
It should reset to the class C reserved LAN block, 192.168.xx.xxx, but it might use the class B reserved LAN block, 10.xxx.xxx.xxx No big deal if it does, this just determines how many different devices can be on the lan. For most people, the first block gives them 256 x 256 = 65,536 devices. (That's usually enough.)
One address needs to be used by the router itself on the LAN side. Let's say that is 192.168.1.1, and make it so if it isn't. (This isn't the lowest address in the pool, the lowest one is 192.168.0.0 but the zeroes make people nervous.)
Its netmask defines the valid range for your network, and it's usually 255.255.255.0 Combine that netmask with your base IP address, and what it means is that the first three octets are fixed at 192.168.1, while the last octet can have any value from 0 to 255 - you can have 256 different devices on this LAN when its set up this way, and this is usually far more than you actually need.
Your computer will take up another of those addresses, and you've still got plenty left over.
The router takes all of the computer's requests and reframes them as if they were the router's requests. So when you visit WhatsMyIP.com, it is not your computer that's asking. It's the router that's asking at some computer's behest, and what gets reported is the WAN side IP address that the router got from your ISP via the modem. (If you have a second computer hooked to that router and it asked WhatsMyIP.com, it will be told it has the same address as the first computer, which would ostensibly be impossible - can't have two devices on the network with the same address.)
If you want to see your computer's IP address on the LAN, use the IPCONFIG command from the DOS shell. That address is not visible to anyone not on your LAN, and neither is your computer itself. All the outside world can see is the WAN side of the router. IPCONFIG will tell you you have a LAN-range address, something like 192.168.1.xxx
Ports now, you need one and only one port. It is the same port that you choose as a listen port and set up that way in your BitComet preferences. All of these other ports, this A through H nonsense, you can forget about. Compound misunderstandings. You just need the one port. You use it throughout.
I usually just tell 'em to use port 65432, because I said so, don't bother me, kid. This is to take care of the ditherers who go into fits if you tell them to just pick a port.
