Opening ports?

[Powerslave]

A friend told me torrent downloads will be faster if I open my ports, can someone explain to me how to do this?

 

[Hamiksaiaja]

what modem are you using? OS?

 

[Powerslave]

I'm using a modem I got from comcast, and win xp home.

 

[Bruce]

In your router find special applications and denote the ports you want to open.I'm not sure its gonna make it faster though.

 

[Powerslave]

thanks.