I want to host with a program called ventrilo but I'm not sure how to do it with the router. I tried opening a port in my router that the program uses but it seems everytime I open the program it uses a different port. I'm using TCPView from sysinternals.com. Plz help

http://www.ventrilo.com/setup.php When using ventrilo behind a firewall/router it is important that your router allow a connection to be established on the port specified by the server that you are going to connect to. The default port is 3784, however, the person who runs the server you want to connect to can change the port number to what ever they want. You will need to tell Ventrilo what the port number is when you define the server, but you might need to tell your router to "open" this port in order to allow outbound connections. Most routing equipment doesn't need this to be done, but some people do run overly restrictive router configurations that will only allow outbound connections to specific port numbers. Bandwidth usage will be determined by what codec the server instructs the client program to use. The default configuration for a server is to use the GSM 6.10 codec and sampling at 11Khz. After compression this will consume approximately 3K bytes per second per voice stream. Using the 3K bytes/sec example this will translate into the following numbers. If you are in a channel (not to be confused with a server) and there are 3 other people in the same channel as you: One of the other people talking will produce 3K bytes of inbound data. Two people in the same channel talking will produce 6K bytes of inbound data. Three people in the same channel talking will produce 9K bytes of inbound data. And so on.... As you can see the mathematics are very simple. The outbound traffic coming from you and going to the server will remain constant when ever you are broadcasting. Using the default codec you will produce approximately 3K bytes/sec of outbound data. If the server administrator chooses a different codec and sample rate then the bandwidth utilization will change as well. It might be higher or lower but only the server admin can control this. While connected to a server you can click on the "Setup" button and the voice page will show you which codec and sample rate the server has defined. This information is visible in the "Test with" box. Changing these values does not effect which codec you actually use. They are meant for use with the "Test" button so that you can hear how each codec will effect the sound quality of your voice transmissions. ---------------- if the above fails try the Ventrilo forum: http://forums.clant2k.com/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=113

It isn't only ventrilo that I can't host with. I've tried hosting with another program and I cant set my router to open up the port that program uses because it changes the port it uses everytime I open it. 1 time I open it, it will use port 2724 then 2712.