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