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Firewalling for the BullGuard Personal Firewall






 

Before we can open ports for BitTorrent, we should set the ports that BitTorrent uses. Here is a brief walkthrough on how to do that. Go ahead and open up BitTorrent.



In the menu at the top of your screen, click the View link. Then in the list of options that drops down click the Settings option.



A new window should have poped up that looks like the picture above. There are a few tabs at the top of this window, click the Network tab.



The number in the starting at port box tells BitTorrent where you start looking for open ports. BitTorrent works it's way up from that port number until it finds a port that is open. Every port that BitTorrent has to check takes time. So it would be a good idea to open the port that you enter into the Starting at Port box. Many ISPs block ports in the 6000 range. Please choose a port between 10000 and 60000 then enter it into the Starting at Port box. Then enter that port into the box below.

BitTorrent's Port for incoming connections

If you plan on downloading multiple files at the same time via BitTorrent, you need to open up one port for each file. This guide will show you how to open up one port for each file. If you chose to put port 12540 into the Starting at Port box and wanted to have five files going at the same time, you should open ports 12540 to 12544.

Open up BitTorrent.


You might see a window pop up like the one above. If you do, put a check mark in to the Remember my answer and don't ask again checkbox. Then click the Yes button. Doing this allows all traffic in and out of your network for that program. Now we will show you how to limit what ports are allowed for that application. Go ahead and open up BullGuard now.


Click the Firewall button near the left hand side of the page.




On this page you will see a User Level drop down box. Make sure that it is set to Advanced. Then click the Profiles tab at the top of the screen.


Double click the Custom Security button.


Now click the Security tab at the top of this window.


Make sure there is a checkmark in the Detect Modified Applications checkbox. Then click on the Application Rules tab at the top of the window.


You should see an entry for BitTorrent in this table. If you see more than one entry for this application, delete the others so that there is only one entry. It is currently set to allow all traffic for this program. Change the Direction drop down box from In + Out to Incoming and click the OK button at the bottom of the page.


Another window should pop up for BitTorrent. Once again put a check mark in to the Remember my answer and don't ask again checkbox.Then click the Yes button at the bottom of that window. Now go back to BullGuard.


Double click the Custom Security button.


You should now see two rules for BitTorrent in this table. One of those rule's Direction should be set to Incomming. The other rule's Direction would be set to In + Out. Change this second rule's Direction to Outgoing. Now we have two rules for BitTorrent. One of them will regulate the incoming traffic and the other one will regulate the outgoing traffic. Double click the Ports... drop down box for the Incoming rule.
  
Ports
  Local Ports:
    
 
  Remote Ports:
  
Click the Ok button to save those changes. Then click the Ok button on the Custom Security page. Now BitTorrent should be restricted to only the ports it requires.