What and where is a "Router Port Number"?

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What and where is a "Router Port Number"?

Answer 1

Router Port Numbers

Answer 2

ok i can tell you can connect to the net, access your routers homepage, if not sure what tis check your "DNS" on your network connection for the ip address. Now type it into your web-browser, from there your router can be accessed and the changes made. As you don't say which router you r using thats as far as i can help. Failing that try the www site for the router's manufactere.

Answer 3

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What and where is a "Router Port Number"?

Hello, I am trying to figure out what is a router port number and how I am able to get it. This is for torrent dowloading purposes because I heard it can speed up your downloading time. BUT I do not know how to find it, thanks for the help!

Answer 4

In simple terms, a port number is much like a PO box at the post office. Data streams (like mail) is divided into numbers, and when it arrives to the destination, the number tells it which box it goes in. Each box in internet terms serves a different purpose or program. For example when you type www.yahoo.com it hits the server at Port 80. If you use remote desktop to connect to another computer that's 3389. In terms of a bittorrent, this is the port that people connect to you at and your router knows to forward all that "bittorrent data" to your PC.



It depends on you model of router/modem you use at home as to how to make this association. You can look it up in your user manual and is usually listed as Virtual Server or Port Forwarding. Most new bittorrent application make this association for you now through what is known as UPnP. Check your flavor of bittorrent client to see if it already does it for you. uTorrent does a good job.

Answer 5

Routers do not use ports but contain the ports used by your system. Each application will listen on a specific port to run. Port restrictions and rules can be configured from the router. For example, the default port for WWW or internet traffic to listen on would be port 80 the browser will listen on another port number. Your torrent program will be listening on a port number to get access to the internet and to run on your local machine. You might be able to speed the procees up by changing the port but I have not hear of that before. If you would like to see the port number that your torrent program is listening on then go to your Windows Firewall and under the Advanced Tab you will see all of the exceptions, this should show you the port that your torrent program is using. You can also use the netstat command from the command prompt (Start > Run > type: cmd, type: netstat in the command prompt) to see the traffic on your computer, do this when the torrent program is running.





Hope that this was able to answer your question.



Cheers,



Max

Answer 6

from where we identify the router. it belongs which company and model no. for example you can use this link.......



http://lh5.ggpht.com/_8ufcC3q2PbQ/SYprHxpHtII/AAAAAAAAAPI/4SkCOZjZotM/s144/IMG_3191.JPG

Answer 7

its that 10 digit number on the side of your router

Answer 8

Routers use many different ports for different things. For instance: port 80 is the standard port for surfing the internet. Port 22 is for SSH servers, 110 is usually for pop3 email protocols. So when they say port number they're probably wanting you to port forward a certain port (this means that your computer now allows connections like a server through the port that you specify).



I'll warn you though, port forwarding is dangerous if you don't have a good personal firewall, as it's like a by-pass to your router security.



To do a port forward you go into your router settings, depending on the router it could be anywhere really. Either advanced, server settings, or perhaps virtual server tabs.



After you forward a port you can tell Bittorrent to use that port and security won't be slowing you down as much. So theoretically it is faster, but it's up to you if you want to take the slight security risks.



Edit: The number that gorgi and raj are describing is your MAC-Address. This is specific to your router, usually used so that the government can track you down.



To Capt_: just because someone's using Bittorrent doesn't mean that they're using it illegally, p2p has other purposes as well.