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The_Meanderer
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Joined: Aug 11, 2005
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May 22, 2007 - 12:28 AM |
 
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BC, the 'local access' problem is to do with your IP address. You'll need to change the setting in your computer. I'll outline it here, hope it's easy to follow....
From the Start menu, choose Control Panel, then click on Network Connections
Right click on your Wireless Connection (whichever one you use) and choose Properties.
Ok, deep breath....
In the box, under where it says 'This connection uses the following items', scroll down to find
Internet Protocol (TCP/IP). Double click that entry
You'll get a new window pop up, and it will show that you 'Obtain an IP address automatically'. Underneath where it says that, you will see a place you can click for 'Use The Following IP Address'. Choose that!
Now type 192.168.0.200 as the IP address. (Check the note at the bottom of this!!!!)
DON'T PRESS ENTER!!
Press tab, which will take you down to the Subnet Mask entry and automatically enter 255.255.255.0
Now press the OK button, and close any other windows
This should get you and your router chatting perfectly!!! If nothing changes, disable the Wireless Connection, then Enable it again.
NOTE: 192.168.0.xxx is the standard address for a wireless router. If you know that yours is different, then enter the first three numbers that are specific to you.
How would you know?
You will know the address of your router, because you enter that to get to the set up menu. So if you have to enter 192.168.1.100 to get access to your router, you should use 192.168.1.xxx as the new IP address for your computer.
Hope that helps, take your time going through the steps, it's pretty easy. |
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Bluebag
LoopKicker
Joined: Sep 11, 2003
Posts: 861
Location: Shanghai
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May 22, 2007 - 09:33 AM |
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All fine, so long as you don't live in a place where they "improved" the phone system by making one of your phone lines into an ethernet port without telling you. Happened to me about a year or so ago.
Just one day your ADSL modem doesn't connect. Spent days figuring out what might be wrong (blown modem, whatever). Then tried direct connect of PC to port. Boing! It works - albeit MUCH slower than with the faster-grade ADSL I had before.
Eventually, it began running at a bit slower than base level ADSL (so much for the "improvement" - not to mention I'm out one phone connection as well).
But the capper is that they have their own router now between me and the net. I can forward all the ports on my own router I like, but I can't do a damn thing about the ones on their router downstairs.
Feckers.
Any suggestions (apart from moving house and/or killing these scumbags)? |
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hc
Post Roaster
Joined: Apr 04, 2007
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May 22, 2007 - 09:45 AM |
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dfoo
Post Roaster
Joined: Jan 19, 2005
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May 22, 2007 - 09:50 AM |
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You can't still use your existing phone line for your ADSL modem? ie: why are you forced to use *their* service? |
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lancesidecar
FooJay
Joined: Jan 07, 2005
Posts: 1631
Location: Hitsville, PRC
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May 22, 2007 - 10:45 AM |
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Hello Folks,
Another Mac Question:
I just finished downloading the entire season of The Wire Season 4.
When I go to play it using QuickTime it says that I need some plug-ins.
It sends me to the apple third party download page and there are many software options.
I don't know what I need to add on to play these episodes. They are .avi files but quicktime shouldn't have a problem playing those. (QuickTime is up to date btw).
Could it be that the files I downloaded have closed captioning and I need to add something?
If I upgrade to QuickTime Pro will that fix the problem?
Any ideas? |
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bleucheese
Veejay
Joined: Aug 01, 2003
Posts: 1974
Location: this side of the tracks
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May 22, 2007 - 11:11 AM |
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thanks alot hc and meanderer. i will check it out when i get home!
just got a handy new free ipod organizer: yamipod. check it out. |
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hc
Post Roaster
Joined: Apr 04, 2007
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May 22, 2007 - 11:30 AM |
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Lancesidecar you probably need the right codecs. It's easy to solve the problem. I'm not a mac user so I cant recommend you a solution but I'd suggest to google for "dvix mac" and "xvid mac" and see what happens.
In any case I dont think you need to buy any software to solve this problem, at least you dont on a PC, but I'll let a mac user answer the question in more detail.
Yamipod? Hmmm. Looks interesting. Will have a look. By the way I recall you using the computersolution guys to replace your pod battery. Is it working fine and how much have you paid? (Offtopic, I know...) |
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lancesidecar
FooJay
Joined: Jan 07, 2005
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Location: Hitsville, PRC
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May 22, 2007 - 11:42 AM |
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Thanks, HC. Everything I'm reading tells me it's best just to download mplayer or vlc to deal with mpeg-2,3,4 and divx/xvid formats........we'll see. |
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dfoo
Post Roaster
Joined: Jan 19, 2005
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May 22, 2007 - 11:57 AM |
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lancesidecar, download VLC. |
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bleucheese
Veejay
Joined: Aug 01, 2003
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Location: this side of the tracks
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May 22, 2007 - 11:58 AM |
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| key thing though is that you must have the router admin pwd. |
if i dont remember the pw and i reset the whole router, to redo the settings (and set the pw) is there an english webpage? or do i need to get a native reader to help me tonight? |
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hc
Post Roaster
Joined: Apr 04, 2007
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May 22, 2007 - 12:22 PM |
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In portforwarding.com you have guides with screen shots for all models of routers in English. That's how I figured out my own router (same as yours by the way).
The position on the screen for each place you need to click is exactly the same in the Chinese and English versions of the router.
Regarding the pwd, I think that if you reset the router you will reset its password as well and then go back to the default password that you can find on the manual of your router.
One crucial thing though: if you dont have your ADSL username and password once you reset the router you wont be able to connect to the net so be dead sure that you have this info written down.
@lance: VLC works very well on the PC and comes with all codecs you might possibly need. If there is a Mac version, then you are definitely covered. |
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lancesidecar
FooJay
Joined: Jan 07, 2005
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Location: Hitsville, PRC
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May 22, 2007 - 02:40 PM |
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Yup....VLC works quite well for OS X.
I tried mplayer too......it worked but the video skips quite a bit.
I like the VLC layout better. |
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bleucheese
Veejay
Joined: Aug 01, 2003
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Location: this side of the tracks
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May 22, 2007 - 02:42 PM |
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| . By the way I recall you using the computersolution guys to replace your pod battery. Is it working fine and how much have you paid? (Offtopic, I know...) |
its actually bullitt's old ipod that i borrowed/kept/gave to my girlfriend. what a guy! anyways its a 10G 1st generation so the big issue is it doesnt charge through USB. frankly, im not impressed with the new battery but it could be the limitation of this particular model of ipod. im going to ask her to get a full charge over night and see how much play time she gets.
i think it wouldve been more worthwhile to buy her a nano. instead, shes about to get a 2 year old 20G (with original battery) as Im upgrading to a video. |
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lancesidecar
FooJay
Joined: Jan 07, 2005
Posts: 1631
Location: Hitsville, PRC
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May 22, 2007 - 02:46 PM |
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(this is off topic but there seems to be a lot of knowledge on this thread)
Anybody know a good program to convert wma to mp3 for OS X? |
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Bluebag
LoopKicker
Joined: Sep 11, 2003
Posts: 861
Location: Shanghai
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May 22, 2007 - 04:31 PM |
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| You can't still use your existing phone line for your ADSL modem? ie: why are you forced to use *their* service? |
Good point, but my Desktop's in a nice little office - it's the phone port in there that "they" (management of my nominally serviced apartment block) hooked into their ethernet.
So now it's not a phone any more. Over a year ago (and a dozen times since) I asked them to give me a new line in there so at least I can get my office phone back.
I presume they're under orders not to do that - too many people would sign up for ADSL again and tell 'em to STICK their in-house Net service.
Either that or astounding amounts of laziness - either way, still no phone connection in that room. The nearest real phone port is out in the lounge room, miles away.
Actually, writing all this out has been both cathartic and convinced me I've got to finally do something about this. Thanks, guys. |
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bleucheese
Veejay
Joined: Aug 01, 2003
Posts: 1974
Location: this side of the tracks
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May 24, 2007 - 09:26 AM |
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1-after login on to the router thingy, click on WAN on the left navigation bar.
2-then click on the second tab on the right part of the screen
3-fill up the form as per this pic here (http://www.omni-china.com/portforwarding.jpg). Notice all the options checked. I'm opening port 20001 to ip address 192.168.0.101 (on purpose i'm opening just one port, I could open multiple if i wanted to).
4-click on the confirm button
5-go back to utorrent/azureus and change the port to the same port number as the one you created in the router (20001 in this case).
6-Should work after doing that...
port forwarding helps a lot to increase the number of peers that can connect to you, and hence for torrents with loads of seeders can improve speed considerably. |
did that and i am getting two error popups in azeurus:
1) (BIG RED X) ERROR
UPnP: Mapping 'Incoming Peer Data Port (TCP/20001)' failed
2) (BIG TRINGLE YELLOW EXCLAMATION) WARNING
If you have a router/firewall, please check that you have port 20001 UDP open. Decentralised tracking requires this.
I double checked the instructions you gav me and the settings for utor101 at 192.168.0.101 TCP 20001/20001 are saved. I double checked the options of azeurus and my incoming TCP UDP listening port is set at 20001.
what am i doing wrong here?
by the way- azeurus seems to be working fine though not alot of uploading happening. |
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dfoo
Post Roaster
Joined: Jan 19, 2005
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May 24, 2007 - 09:47 AM |
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Why not enable uPnP? If you do that the you don't need to manually open any ports in the router. |
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bleucheese
Veejay
Joined: Aug 01, 2003
Posts: 1974
Location: this side of the tracks
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May 24, 2007 - 10:26 AM |
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did a "port listening test" on azeurus.
20001 is NOT open.... |
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dfoo
Post Roaster
Joined: Jan 19, 2005
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May 24, 2007 - 10:57 AM |
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There are four possible reasons:
1/ port 20001 on your router cannot be reached (its blocked or similar). This is unlikely.
2/ You didn't forward port 20001 to your machine.
3/ You didn't tell azeureus to use port 20001.
4/ A local firewall on your machine is blocking access to port 20001.
My guess is that you are suffering from #4 -- if you are running windows XP SP2 then it, by default, installs a software firewall. Open a hole in that and you will be good to go. |
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bleucheese
Veejay
Joined: Aug 01, 2003
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Location: this side of the tracks
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May 24, 2007 - 11:43 AM |
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running windows vista. still cant understand how to change half the damn settings!
they just installed a cable modem this morning so the router is dead until after work at which point hopefully one of the IT guys can figure out how to set it up (again...)
rant:
1) it took 2 guys to install a cable modem. one to do the actual work, one to look around my apartment, nose around my dvd collection, open random drawers. very sketchy. when one went upstairs, i insisted we move en masse.
2) i now have a 30 meter long bright blue ethernet cable running from my tv to my desk...opposite side of the room.
3) there are coaxial cable clippings, metal shavings, electrical wire pieces all over the place. |
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bleucheese
Veejay
Joined: Aug 01, 2003
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Location: this side of the tracks
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May 24, 2007 - 06:27 PM |
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There are four possible reasons:
1/ port 20001 on your router cannot be reached (its blocked or similar). This is unlikely.
2/ You didn't forward port 20001 to your machine.
3/ You didn't tell azeureus to use port 20001.
4/ A local firewall on your machine is blocking access to port 20001. |
1) dunno
2) i believe i did in the d-link setup page.
3) i believe i did. thats my listening port. though when i test it azeurus says it doesnt work
4) i opened the port in windows firewall (make an exception) for BOTH tcp and udp.
still no go.
addendum to the rant- i.t. guy upon seeing the new cable modem setup: "why did you get that? cable is very slow and bad." |
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dfoo
Post Roaster
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May 24, 2007 - 06:43 PM |
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Did you port forward to the correct IP address? Does your computers IP address change all the time on your internal network? If you enable uPnP in the router & your torrent application this isn't an issue and you don't need to do anything (uPnP allows applications to open holes if your router themselves). Of course uPnP is a security hole by its very nature since if you have malware it could also open holes in the firewall... |
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hc
Post Roaster
Joined: Apr 04, 2007
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May 25, 2007 - 12:31 AM |
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^ Yep UPnP is very insecure. That's why I suggested having a single port opening mapped to one specific IP address.
It looks to me that your IP is not 192.168.0.101.
To find out your ip address:
1-Click on "Run" on the start bar
2-Type "cmd"
3-Then ipconfig, and see which IP is being assigned to your computer.
If you just access this given network assigning a static IP might be the better idea.
If not what you can do is to open multiple ports to multiple IPs in the same screen I mentioned before. Both alternatives will work.
And just curious why you would be using azureus? utorrent is so much better. |
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YorkshireKing
StreetBeater
Joined: Mar 16, 2007
Posts: 2238
Location: Loooooooooooooooooose in Luwan
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May 25, 2007 - 12:52 PM |
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Hey Im a NEWBIE to all this
Last night I Downloaded my first torrent using BitComet, searched for content using Scrapetorrent amongst others, thanks to The Meanderer for the tips, cheers fella
Now having waited 20 hours plus for an episode of 24 to download,( my connection is supposedly 2mb) lots of messing around, downloading VSO convertXto DVD software, I watched the content through VLC and it worked fine with a good quality picture and sound, I needed to convert it to DVD to watch on my TV so i used a free version of VSO burned it to disc and after some promting my Panasonic recorder played the disc, brilliant quality, great sound BUT an annoying message across screen " If you want to remove this message please visit http://www.vso-software.fr/ it seems I have to pay.
So I'm "borrowing" programmes off the net so I dont want to pay for this either, anyone got a site I can use which is able to burn to dvd and not put annoying messages up on screen??
Also any ideas how to speed up the whole process of downloading torrents, decent sites and such
In laymans terms please!!!!
Cheers |
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bleucheese
Veejay
Joined: Aug 01, 2003
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Location: this side of the tracks
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May 25, 2007 - 01:18 PM |
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| It looks to me that your IP is not 192.168.0.101.... alternatives will work. |
thanks ill try all that sunday night.
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| And just curious why you would be using azureus? utorrent is so much better. |
my buddy who bought this computer for me in the US last month shipped it to me with azuerus on it.
after surfing around and reading some boards, there seems to be universal agreement- as you said utorrent is the best.
i'll make the switch on sunday.
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| Now having waited 20 hours plus for an episode of 24 to download, |
if its a current episode, you must be doing something wrong. it takes me about 1-2 hours to download these using a (supposed) 2MB connection. |
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