Bit Torrent Ports

Hi,
I am a new Mac user and have recently purchased a Powerbook G4. I would like to use Bit torrent more efficiently on my Mac.
I would be greatful to anyone who can guide me on how to allow access to Bit torrent and other applications to specific TCP ports?
Your help would be highly appreciated!
Thanks,
Aditya

I would be greatful to anyone who can guide me on how
to allow access to Bit torrent and other applications
to specific TCP ports?
Are you behind a router ? If so, you must configure that device to do port forwarding on your Mac to ports 6881-6999.
To allow the bitTorrent ports through your firewall on OS X:
System Preferences -> Sharing -> firewall -> new -> other
Port Number -> 6881-6999
Port Name -> bittorrent
OK
This will allow access to the ports bittorrent uses.

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I removed and re-added the rules, turned off UPNP as well as turned it on with no success. And during the process of adding the rule back into the system I recieved an error stating that the port was already assigned even though at that moment there were no active assignments. So I changed port numbers and the issue went away.
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