Anyone know if there are any issues using the BT Voyager 2091 router? This is a wireless router, but I have it connected via ethernet cable and no other devices are connected wireless or otherwise.

Anyone know if this router need configuring or should it perform ok with LW straight out of box?

Im using LW ok - but not sure if it could be a lot better. I'm supposed to be on BT opt 3 - up to 8 meg connection, what kind of speeds should I be seeing?

Any help/advice most welcome. Many thanks.
System: P4 2.6 / XP pro sp2 / 1gb ram / Norton IS 2006 fully installed with all options on & LW permitted.

Frank

I'm not sure it supports UPnP. Unless you have one with new firmware which does support it. Telnet into your device & check the options. If there is none, then port forwarding is the go. See Port Forwarding for the BT Voyager 2091. Most important step is the 1st which is setting up a static ip. The port LW normally uses is port 6346. However you can choose a much higher port such as between 49152 - 65535 such as 64049. But whichever port you choose, you must add the same port number in LW's advanced firewall option as described on that link.

If you're using NIS, make sure XP firewall is disabled. NIS & XP FW's are known to clash & cause problems. Also results in less security with both running.

Many thanks - I'll check that. In LW's options/tools, the port to listen on is set quite high - I cant remember what exactly and Im not with the pc at the mo. As I said, it is communicating and downloading - I just wondered if this could be optimised for best performance. I was using a Linksys ADSL modem before.

frankf, you can only get max speeds with BT if you both live within half a mile of the local exchange AND you are connecting to the point at which the BT line enters your house. If you plug into an extension point, for example, that will reduce your download speed. The speed is also affected according to the time of day. Try downloading at 3am compared to 3pm and you will notice a massive difference.

What speeds are you getting?

I live within 500 yards of my local exchange (I'm with BT too) but I run an extension line to my computer. My speeds vary from 6.5MB at best down to 1.5MB at worst.

some BT routers just need the computer IP entering, rather than the static IP address. That instruction in the above url has that bit wrong - it says to set a static IP. For the OP if this is the case, all he/she has to do is open up the port he/she wishes for LW and it will work. The important thing is to make sure that the listening port and the outgoing port are the same. They can be manually changed. Choose the second option (manual - not Upnp) and change both that and the listening port to the same number and open the same in the router and it will work fine, the brick wall on LW will disappear.

For BT I would also suggest changing the port from the normal Gnutella - 6346 to 6348 to another number as BT seem to block those ports during much of the day. Nothing official of course, just what I've noticed...

I've never heard of manual port forwarding working without a static ip. After all port forwarding is based around the ip. But if the BT is something different, then it means it's a lot better than all other devices that are port forwarded. The reason being that normally as soon as one's ip changes (dynamic ip) then the port forwarding process will no longer work. But as suggested I'm happy to learn something new. And it proves the experts at portforward.com wrong. lol

I had an experienced user of p2p (not gnutella) suggest to me it's more effective to do a separate port forward for each of TCP & UDP, rather than do a single one for both. Apparently puts less stress on the device or something to that effect. Thus I do mine that way.

Hi Midnight - thanks for that info - the BT guy told me much the same when I was upgrading my contract to option 3 back in June, that you need to be almost living on top of the exchange for max speed. Connecting to the master socket would be the best but its at the wrong end of the house, so I have to go via extension.

As I mentioned earlier, I cant remember what port LW is listening on but its a 5 figure number, which is different from when I was running LW 4.9 (I'm on 4.12 x at the mo) and had a Linksys modem instead of this router - the port then was the famous 6346.

BT are running DLM on the line for the next few days, so I'll monitor and see how it goes.
If anyone has any more tips on increasing speed using this router I'd be very grateful.
Many thanks for replies.

Frank

Hi Checked the port yesterday that LW listens to and it shows 45938 - is that good / OK? Ist it where it should be for this router (voyager 2091)?

Many thanks for help.

Frank

That's an unassigned port, so that's fine. Or anything between 49152 - 65535 is also good.