On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 09:37:15 -0700, Jeremy Hunt wrote: [...] >> Apparently bittorrent works regardless of blocked ports. What is it about >> azureus that's different? > > > Azureus has a UPnP plugin and most routers today have UPnP altough I'm not > sure if it's enabled by default. If you turn on the UPnP plugin Azureus will > negotiate the opening of the ports with your router and you won't need to > log in to configure it it doesn't matter if you have the password. [...] I found: <http://thesource.ofallevil.com/windowsxp/using/windowsmessenger/expert/smc7004vwbr.mspx> I hesitate to ask the network admin to enable UPnP as he's blocked ports for this very purpose. Hmm. Thanks for the info. Actuall, that's a rather odd site. It has Microsoft logos and what-not, but the URL is "the source of all evil." Anyhow, back to our regularly scheduled programming :) -Thufir
