Guide To Using Bittorrent

[kazaaman]

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[Thorz]

Hi m8s

I have been using Bittorrent without any firewall with great results (Shadow's). Today I have installed the last ZoneAlarm Pro 4.5 and I would like to ask you something:

Bittorrent client reports green status light, but my download speeds are not the same as they were when I was without the firewall. It can be maybe a question of hitting some bad seeders in this period, but I would like to be sure. As you may know ZAP configure the access to the programs automatically, so I suposse bittorrent client has gotten everything that it knows after I have autorized it to access the internet. I get people downloading from me, and the light is green in all the torrents that I have opened at the momment. Do you think that it is still necesary to open the port range on the firewall, or everything should work fine as it is now?

Thanks a lot for the info.

[lee551]

ok, i installed bittorrent and downloaded a few files with it. my share rating is very small: 1.5 usually, and my upload is usually like 5 kb/s. what files am i sharing?! and how can i configure which ones to share and which not to?

thanx.

[LINDOREZ]

lee551 with bittorrent you only share the file you are currently downloading or seeding. Please leave the client open as long as possiable so more people have a chance to recieve the file.

[lee551]

ok thanx LINDOREZ, so if its going slow theres nothing i can do about it.

[mat173]

Yes bittorrent is a great P2P for games, movies(screeners dvd vcd ETC)
Tv series, apps and so on.
you should get downloads of 55kb/s for almost all your downloads on 512 broadband www.suprnova.org is the best site it also has a search site www.novasearch.net

[colt45joe]

can somebody help me please? i use to use shadows experemental, and i would always get a yellow light, and i read that it had to do with routers or firewalls, now i use azureus, it is a bit cleare on the problem, its a NAT prb, but i dont even know what that is. im guessing its my router thats causing the yellow liight for expermental and odd smiley for azureus, soo, i have a D-Link 704 anybody else have this model? i dont know how to

For a router, you need to forward the ports used by Azureus in TCP. By default from 2.0.6.0 on, it is only port 6881.

can anybody help?

[kungartur]

Try go to http://grc.com , then select "Shields Up." You'll be able to test your "Common Ports." If you are not behind any firewall or NAT, it should showed "open!" . Also, you can tell it to probe port 6881-6889 using "User Specified Custom Port Probe" option.

[jack7777766]

Hey
I just did the shields up thing and found all my ports were on stealth mode including 6881-6889, this seems good for security but since my torent(shadows) has a yellow light(which I just realized is bad after reading this post) I was wondering what I needed to do to get it to work faster???
Im using winXP without any additional firewall stuff.
Also if I do anything will it make my PC vulnerable to anything??

Thanks
Jack

[jack7777766]

Oh
Also I dont think the winXP firewall is on, but Im not sure.

Thanks