Re: Must be a lot of downloads

Vlad_Inhaler wrote:
On Jun 20, 7:50 am, houghi <hou...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Michael Soibelman wrote:
Well at the time of my original post clicking on the link gave a 'server not
reachable' ERROR. Hence my post.**
I am sorry for not looking in my crystal ball and knowing that that was
the case. ;-)

houghi
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Well, I had exactly the same problem originally - timeouts - and when
I finally got going at around 17:00 UTC yesterday it was at ready-in-5-
days speed.
I only use torrents once or twice a year. Looking on the 'net to
check for symptoms of a provider throttling torrents, I noticed claims
that things work better if port 6881 is open. It does not make *much*
difference, only a factor of around 20 (10KB/sec -> 200 KB/sec).
Grrrr.

Is there anything in particular I need to worry about with 6881:6999
open?

It's better to use a port over 50.000 for torrents, since most ISPs don't throttle them; they throttle the default port instead (6881). Just open a port between 50000 and 60000 (to be connectable) and you're OK.

You also need to learn the concept of ports :P There's no "issue" with having a port "open". A port is an application. If the application that listens on that port is known to be bug free, it's safe. If the port is open but the application isn't running, then the port is closed anyway no matter if you "opened" it in the firewall. The firewall is simply allowing traffic on that port; if no application is opening that port, data sent there goes to nirvana.
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