6881-6999 won't cut it ?

[Dammit9x]

Nowadays a lot of trackers send torrents through ports outside of that range.

How am I supposed to tell my firewall router to let them through without opening every port?

Why would trackers want to deviate from a standard set?

[GundamGuy]

Nowadays a lot of trackers send torrents through ports outside of that range.

How am I supposed to tell my firewall router to let them through without opening every port?

Why would trackers want to deviate from a standard set?

Well i im not sure threw what port you connect to the tracker... but those ports are used to connect to other peers, i believe. Anyway with some clients you can tell them what port to use. I would recomend using a client, that has that option.

[Dammit9x]

I am talking about torrents that show you something like "http://sometracker.somewebsite.com:xxxx/announce" when you see the details of it, where xxxx is a number that is often outside of 6881-6999. Are you saying the number is just irrelevant?

[render.]

That port is the port that you access the tracker at, it has nothing to do with you own computer.

[ADW]

Why would trackers want to deviate from a standard set?

Many ISPs tend to supress or block p2p traffic nowadays. Any usage of "standart" sets tend to ease their job.

[apcarr]

you should never use ports 6881-6999, use a client that lets you choose your own port like azereus choose something like 49160

[Ragnar]

You know, I'm pretty sure the ORIGINAL Original BT client let you pick your ports. You don't need Azureus for it

[polobunny]

Why we shouldn't use default ports?
Anyway, yes, you can change ports with the original bt client as Ragnar said, and you know, this thread is a bit old...

[Ragnar]

Heh, yeah this thread is a oldie

Many ISPs tend to supress or block p2p traffic nowadays. Any usage of "standart" sets tend to ease their job.

That'd be why. There's been a rumor going around that 30-40% of the total bandwidth of the internet is being eaten by BT So ISPs would find it easy to stop it by blocking port 6881, which far too many people are still useing.

[polobunny]

And? I don't see the problem in blocking a few ports on 65000 possible ports...Anyway, as you know, you can simply change it anytime, so what's the matter?
If port 6881 still works, I don't see why you should change it.

[GundamGuy]

Heh, yeah this thread is a oldie



That'd be why. There's been a rumor going around that 30-40% of the total bandwidth of the internet is being eaten by BT So ISPs would find it easy to stop it by blocking port 6881, which far too many people are still useing.

Why do we pay people to block what we want to do with what we have payed for?...

[polobunny]

Ok, start stealing your internet then.

[AcidPenguiN]

I would reccomend you get Azureus and then if your router supports it, use upnp. . . it seems to have worked for me

[tacos r people2]

I would reccomend you get Azureus and then if your router supports it, use upnp. . . it seems to have worked for me

UPnP is nice if you need it - but if you can do it manually, turn of UPnP, because there's still quite a few security holes with UPnP that will put you at risk.