I'm downloading an FZ interview with BitTorrent as I write, Jim. Thanks for your help, man! I'm going to set my ports according to your specs for my next download to make a comparison. Mark
Jim L wrote: > Most clients use only one port per download. They start at the bottom > 6881 and if you start a second download 6882 is used and so on. ISP's > are starting to cap and in a few cases block the known port ranges > however. For this reason many of the newer clients are using much > higher port ranges. Many also randomly change the port range. This is > causing problems for people that need to configure their firewalls and > forward ports in their router as all that must match the ports the > client software uses. Most of the clients that offer random ports as a > feature have an option to lock it down to a specified range in the > configuration however. Also another school of thought is that allowing > multiple torrents to use the same open port number is a good idea. > After all the more open and forwarded ports you have the more your > security is lowered even if just a tiny bit. Also XP with the SP2 > firewall usually only allows one open port at a time unless you > manually configure services like this. > http://www.geocities.com/gruven42/xpfwbt/xp_firewall_bt.htm > If you use easytree as well as zappaters their page should show you > without the red port numbers if everything is configured properly. > Remember that you only need to configure as many ports as you think > you would ever have torrents running. In other words if you never > download and or seed more than 3 torrents at a time you only need to > open three ports. > > My advise is to dump your client and try the all new original > BitTorrent client 4.0. Set it to a high range like starting at 59321. > Set all your firewall and port forwarding to the new higher range and > see what happens. Finish your downloads first however. Also set it to > always save in the folder you usually save the torrent folders in. > I've tried several clients and this one seems to be the most stable > and has the least drag on my system. The new version just came out and > has a bunch of new features. > http://www.bittorrent.com/ > > Now to answer your question about speed. If your allowing your client > software to upload at your connections maximum speed it will slow your > download. This is because for each piece you download a response file > must be sent telling the peer you downloaded from that the piece was > received. This is separate from the data your uploading to peers and > is just part of the presses. If your upload rate is maxed out it can > choke off the communication of your download and the download will > slow. What you want to do is join a large swarm and determine what > your maximum upload rate is and then turn it down just a little like > maybe 10 or 15%. This will allow free communication about your > downloaded pieces and they should come faster. Keep in mind that the > bittorrent protocol itself is a tit for tat system and generally the > faster you can upload the faster your download will go so don't turn > down the upload speed to much. > > Jim L <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Mark D. <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > *To:* Zappa List <mailto:Zappa-List@yahoogroups.com> > *Sent:* Sunday, March 13, 2005 4:33 PM > *Subject:* [Zappa-List] Bit Torrent Dilemnas > > > Greetings, community. I've been getting into Zappateers a bit lately, > and I'm wondering if someone on here can tell me if there is anything I > can do to increase my bit torrent download speeds. I believe I already > established a static IP address and my Windows firewall seems to have > made accomodations for my torrent client (called eXeem) for ports > 6881-6888 or 6889 or so, but some of these shows are taking 24 hours or > more. I have a cable modem, btw. When I look at the the network > configuration of the client it says the listen port is 6881; does this > indicate that it is NOT using the higher ports? I hope these questions > are relevant; this stuff's new to me. > Mark > > > > For further Z-related fun, please visit http://www.thebignote.com or > http://www.killuglyradio.com , thank you. > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > For further Z-related fun, please visit http://www.thebignote.com or > http://www.killuglyradio.com , thank you. > > > *Yahoo! Groups Sponsor* > ADVERTISEMENT > click here > <http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=129q6vbgr/M=298184.6018725.7038619.3001176/D=grplch/S=1705031154:HM/EXP=1110870499/A=2593423/R=0/SIG=11el9gslf/*http://www.netflix.com/Default?mqso=60190075> > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *Yahoo! 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