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Schwip
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BitTorrent and firewall
#5188309 - 01/16/06 06:29 PM (18 years, 4 months ago) |
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I find myself using bittorent allot lately.....I believe that I'm using it properly and have downloaded quite a bit..... But sometimes the downloads will go nice and speedy (30kbs and up) and sometims they go really slow(.1 to 3kps).... Why is that?
Im currently trying to download a grateful dead best of cd....there were 30 some seeds and only 15 or so downloaders and the torrent 'health' was really high and in the green(found on torrentspy.com)....
I am running a firewall.....zonealarm. Is the firewall causing problems? I dont have zone alarm pro...so i really have no control of port settings....but when i first started bittorent the little window popped up asking if this program had permission to access internet....of course i hit 'allow' and 'rember this setting'......
I am running win 98....so no built in firewall......
I am not sure if my router has a firewall...
I have bittoret set to allow 15kbs upload speeds......
Alrighty....any input appreciated
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Re: BitTorrent and firewall [Re: Schwip]
#5188392 - 01/16/06 06:51 PM (18 years, 4 months ago) |
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Sometimes you just get on crappy torrents (crappy uploaders). If you get downloads occasionally that max out your speed, you probably have no problem on your end.
I don't use software firewalls though because they don't really do anything but annoy the shit out of me. Also, most routers have firewalls but it sounds like you are getting a connection so i dunno.
It also depends on the client. I use bit tornado and regularly get 600+ kbps on popular torrents.
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Re: BitTorrent and firewall [Re: Schwip]
#5188792 - 01/16/06 08:36 PM (18 years, 4 months ago) |
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test your configuration. find a torrent with many seeders that is known for high speeds.
check out www.legaltorrents.com or test download a linux distro like http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu-iso/5.10/
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Re: BitTorrent and firewall [Re: Schwip]
#5188842 - 01/16/06 08:44 PM (18 years, 4 months ago) |
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I was banned from a torrent site after they told me I wasn't "connectable" ....... I'm uploading every torrent at about 45-50 k (which tells me I'm "connectable"..I dunno) -- I can download off limewire at over 100k... I think I have some problem here with my torrent configuration or something...
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Re: BitTorrent and firewall [Re: Schwip]
#5188954 - 01/16/06 09:11 PM (18 years, 4 months ago) |
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Also, ISPs throttle ports for file sharing apps, including torrent clients.
You need a client that will allow you to manually set a random range of ports, then you forward them through your firewall. You have to do this because most ISPs now throttle ports in the 6000 range (forgot which ones in particular).
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Re: BitTorrent and firewall [Re: Vvellum]
#5189165 - 01/16/06 10:08 PM (18 years, 4 months ago) |
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alright.....
maybe i dont quite have an understanding of all this......
but i tested my bandwidth speed at cnet.... it comes up 350(or so)kbs....
i then tried a torrent over at legaltorents......d/l at about 40kbs
tried the linux link above.....d/l started at 60kbs then dropped and leveled at 40kbs
what the fuk is up with that? is there something i dont know about that is capping my available bandwidth somehow? i tried switching my port on BT to 4500....no change
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Re: BitTorrent and firewall [Re: Schwip]
#5189230 - 01/16/06 10:31 PM (18 years, 4 months ago) |
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350 kilobits per second (kb/s or kbps) is about 40 kilobytes per second (kB/s).
Bandwidth is usually measured in bits while download speed is often measured in bytes for some reason.
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Re: BitTorrent and firewall [Re: Catalysis]
#5189273 - 01/16/06 10:47 PM (18 years, 4 months ago) |
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Ooooohhhhhhh....
that is where i was confused.... thank you for clearing that up
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Re: BitTorrent and firewall [Re: Schwip]
#5195423 - 01/18/06 03:36 PM (18 years, 4 months ago) |
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portforward.com
I get speeds of 150+ Kbps
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Re: BitTorrent and firewall [Re: Schwip]
#5195763 - 01/18/06 05:21 PM (18 years, 4 months ago) |
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If your router has a firewall(and it probably does), you need to forward the ports you use for bittorrent to your own computer (i.e your own *internal* IP adress)
Also, make sure you've assigned your computer (i.e. your NIC) it's own static IP (again, internal).
Your router will have an IP address that it uses to connect to the internet. However, it also uses an IP address to connect to your computer, so make sure that your computer uses the same IP address to communicate with your router each time it boots up, otherwise the router might be forwarding the ports to the wrong IP.
http://www.portforward.com can tell you how to do all these things.
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