Kenneth Porter wrote: > When starting your torrent client, select a random range of ports not in > the usual torrent band from 6881-6999. Many ISP's are naively shaping > traffic on those ports to keep P2P uses from taking bandwidth from their > precious web users. By announcing ports outside that range, you can > often escape the shaping and get full speed that would otherwise be > throttled. I've been using ranges in the 50000's, but any random port > range between 1024 and 65535 should work. Newer clients can serve from a > single port. Older clients require a range, which should be between 10 > and 100 ports, as they serve each peer on a different port. > Good point, I'll have to play with it to see how RCN handles things.... -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome@xxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org)
