spi firewall

[RCBH928]

Hello,

I use torrent, and I always wanted to do an open port thing
I tried many times it never worked so I just gave up,
I am using an ISP with Wimax, i get good connection sometimes,
but at other times connections will be slow even downloading torrents with 200-500 seeders

I never thought I was behind firewall, but today i was looking into my router and found that there is an SPI firewall on

What is this? Shall I disable it?
does it affect anything?

using linksys router, which is very similar to this
http://www.linksysbycisco.com/APAC/en/products/WRT160N

[Hobie-wan]

Don't disable your firewall unless you want your machine to be more open to infections. You can see about opening up a port or range of ports in the firewall and possibly tell your torrent program to specifically go through those ports.

[Octopod]

http://portforward.com/

http://cinemageddon.org/doku/doku.php/g ... onnectable

http://www.utorrent.com/documentation/beginners-guide


Here are some good links for you.