Configuring Bittorrent on the BSNL DSL Broadband Router

After finally getting broadband connectivity at home, I spent a couple of days configuring my router to get maximum efficiency for the bittorrent technology. I won't go into much detail as to how I much trial and error was involved in this... we'll go straight to the solution. There are hundreds of tutorials out there on port forwarding, this post will just give info on how to do port forwarding on the router mentioned below.

Connection: BSNL Home UL 900 ADSL2+
Router: Starcom UT300R2U

1) Get your hands on a bittorrent client. I'll explain the next few steps using the uTorrent client.
2) Decide on a non-default port for your client. ISP's are attempting to strangle normal torrent ports, so using a non-default one will help. We'll refer to this number as PORT.
3) Access the router by typing in "192.168.1.1" on your browser. Enter "admin" and "admin" as your default credentials. If your password is non-default, you already know the device well, so I needn't explain what to do.
4) Ensure your PC has a static IP address. You can get its value using the ipconfig command on the Windows console. Let us assume it is 192.168.1.100 for now.
5) Go to the "NAT" option under "Advanced setup", type this IP into the text field, and click on save/apply.
6) Follow the path Advanced Setup->Security->IP Filtering->Incoming. Click on Add. Once the new page loads, follow the following instructions for each field:
Filter Name: uTorrent (or any other name - does not matter)
Protocol: Select "TCP/UDP" from the drop down menu.
Source IP Address: Leave blank
Source Subnet mask: Leave Blank
Source Port: Leave Blank
Destination IP Address: Enter the same IP here as you did in step 5.
Destination Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.255
Destination Port: Enter the PORT value here from step 2.
Click on save/apply and you're good to go.

Now configure the torrent client according to the tutorials for the same, and you'll have finished setting up the device.

Note: Save your router settings before and after you do this setup in two different files. Also, my device goes back to default settings when switched off and on again. You can use these backup files to restore it to a functional state.

Hope this was of help.
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