Need alternative bt client

[abu_has_the_power]

I'm using bittornado, and it's buggy as hell


i need another client that can randomize ports, and do the upnp port mapping thingy



help please!!!!

[zty]

I use Bitcomet

[Spam-King]

azureus

[abu_has_the_power]

none of those let u randomize ports. i think it's great security feature

[RealitY]

I thought Azureus can...

[Spam-King]

azurius does!

[abu_has_the_power]

it doesn't. it lets u put 1 number in as the port number




and also the upnp thing doesn't work properly for some reason. or maybe i did something wrong

[Spam-King]

that is randomizing

[abu_has_the_power]

i'm talking bout bittornado's thing where it's like 10000-60000 and it randomly selects one from there and forwards it.

[ilw]

why is that a security feature?

[mEtho]

azureus

[abu_has_the_power]

the most commonly blacklisted ports are smaller than 10000


and also, i use protowall, and when it randomizes the ports for every torrent, the evil bastards keep hacking ports 6881-6999


i just checked again, azureus doesn't let u do the port range thing

[abu_has_the_power]

It's not a security feature, it is a feature to stop your isp throttling your BT downloads.

They throttle the common BT ports, so randomizing them does two things. It doesn't use the common ports and it prevents isps from identifying ports we are using.


exactly. which to me is a good security feature. i have comcast, and they like to rat out their customers.


so is there anything besides bittornado?

[abu_has_the_power]

tornado's been good for almost 2 years now (it was shadows). now it's not closing properly. guess i'll keep using it

[erRor67]

yeah, the port # doesnt really help. They can still get ur IP address which is really all that matters.


Erm, I suggest Azureus as posted above. It has a great GUI, many features and is just a great app.

http://azureus.sf.net

[abu_has_the_power]

i've tried it. i prob would have stuck with it if only the upnp port mapping would work.

[lynx]

Bitcomet.
Does Upnp.
Lets you select your own port with randomiser if you want (but you have to do this each time).
Written in C++ so very low cpu/resource usage (except memory which is common to all).

[matt526]

it doesn't. it lets u put 1 number in as the port number


how is this randomizing? how do I randomize using Azureus? :helpsmili

[mogadishu]

wouldn't it actually be more dangerous to do what you want to do. If you have some huge number of ports that randomly get chosen, all of the possible ports have to be opened on your firewall (if you have one). So a hacker can get in using all those ports (or do something, i dont really know how hacking works) rather than having only one being able to be opened. So either you don't have a firewall (very bad) or you have a crapload of ports open (not as bad, but bad). Please correct me if im wrong.

[erRor67]

that is true. U need to open ur ports on ur Firewall and router if u have one. Randomizing isnt that great. Of course, every so often u can change the port ur using (thats what I do) and just change ur firewall and router accordingly. Not that hard. As for the throttling of bandwidth. Yes, u need to have a little common sence in picking ur ports. Almost any port greater than 1024 is a good port to use. ;)

[abu_has_the_power]

that's y i use upnp. it only opens the on that is currently being used. if i don't use upnp, my router has this thing called port triggering, which is also th same concept. so it's not dangerous

[4play]

you need some kind of services running on the ports to exploit to crack a system. so leaving bittorant ports open with nothing running on them is not really dangerous.

just set yourself up to use a set of ports that are not normally used by bittorent and you will be fine. randomly picking ports does not increase security or prevent port throttling in any way.

[SingaBoiy]

Y havent you bothered to go back a version yet?