At 5:10 PM -0400 5/31/07, Gene Heskett wrote: >On Thursday 31 May 2007, Tony Nelson wrote: >>At 3:38 PM -0400 5/31/07, Gene Heskett wrote: >>>On Thursday 31 May 2007, David Timms wrote: >>>>Thom Paine wrote: >>>>> Any mirrors hosting F7 open yet? Does anyone know if they will open at >>>>> midnight tonight? >>>> >>>>And so, the torrent for F7 is now visible. >>>> >>>>DaveT. >>> >>>Unforch Dave, it appears that vz has found the azureas ports and blocked >>> them as it all came to a screeching halt about half an hour ago, after >>> about 900 megs was onsite. What ports can we shuffle this to, or do we >>> sue the bastards? >>> >>>I setup some more port forwards in dd-wrt, and told azureas about them, and >>>there is now a small amount of data getting through. I repeat, bastards, >>> and if you call and yell at them, they will of course deny it because the >>> minute they admit it they no longer enjoy that Common Carrier status with >>> the FCC. >> >>I use Verizon DSL. I use the standard BitTorrent ports and have them open >>in my firewall. I got a full-speed download, after restarting it once -- I >>had a partial RC2 download that I repurposed, which may have led me to get >>less than useful peers the first time. It's currently sharing at the >>max_upload_rate I set. > >On what ports Tony? Ports 6881-6999, which are the default ports that bittorrent-curses (and BitTorrent in general) listens on. >Here I have 6969 which AIUI is the tracker port, Are you running a tracker? I'm not. I'm just a User, not a Publisher. >forwarded & cleared all the way through, with 7000 and 36000 to 37000 for use >as data, all setup and port forwarded to this box from dd-wrt. Currently >making about 80kB on a 1.5mb link, seems to have leveled off at that average, >with about 37 to 40kB up. Half the normal dl speed in other words. Once you have the proper ports opened up, you should stop and restart the BitTorrent client. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
