On April 14, 2005 02:56, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 14 Apr 2005 09:47, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > > I presume you have to re-start the download to get the file read > > > again? > > > > > > Anne > > > > Exactly, Anne. And don't forget to open your firewall ports > > 6881-6999. After editing (as root) : service shorewall restart. > > Unfortunately I can't do that. Shorewall is on the box, so that's no > problem, but it is secondary to a hardware firewall/router that does not > allow me to open ranges, and doesn't give me enough spaces to open them > individually either. Still, by tomorrow morning I should have the CD1-4 > download complete. It took me almost 4 days to get the full set last time, > so 36 hours for this isn't so bad. > > Anne
That's interesting. I never thought to check this. My BT d/l was somewhat slow, but it worked, so I just started it and forgot about it till it was done. But when I checked Shorewall, the BT ports were not open! So I opened them. But then I realized that my hardware firewall/router was probably blocking these connections too. I have an SMC Barricade 7004-AWBR wireless broadband router. It took a while to decipher what I had to do, because they don't call it "port forwarding" like everyone else. They call it "Special Applications". I had to tell it that when it sees an outgoing connection on port 6969, it is to allow incoming connections on ports 6881-6889 (you can't just tell it to leave incoming ports open all the time, there has to be an outgoing trigger). In the process of working on this I did some googling and came across a very useful couple of sites. First, go to: http://dehacked.2y.net/BT/DumpTorrentCGI.php and upload your torrent file. After a few minutes (it's quite slow), it will spit out the hash id of the torrent. Then go back to here: http://btfaq.com/natcheck.pl and enter a port (6881 would be the first BT incoming port) and the hash id, and hit the test button, and it will tell you whether it got through. Do all this while you have your BT client running. Once I got the ports opened properly, my d/l rate started climbing steadily from the 20 KB/s it was stuck at. It's currently over 120 KB/s! Incidentally, in case anyone's wondering from my earlier messages, I finished the DVD d/l only to discover that at least one of my computers won't boot off a DVD, although it has a DVD reader in it, and can boot off a CD in the DVD drive. Possibly a BIOS limitation, as it's an older computer. So now here I am d/l'ing the CDs. -- Ron ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. "As you know, necessity is the mother of invention. I don't know who the father is. Remorse, I guess." - Red Green
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