slow bittorrent downloads??..

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Tommie

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im having slow bittorrent downloads....how do i make it go faster??..i have turned off my firewall that xp has....i have configured and opened up the ports for my router....it is always yellow....its not green anymore....its not going as fast as it use too....
 
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scarecrow

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Change the default port (6881) to something else, preferrably a number over the 50,000- some ISP's block the standard P2P ports.
More than that, some use special anti-P2P filters based on network traffic sniffing, but unfortunately this can be countered only by changing ISP...
 
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Tommie

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can u give me a range frum what port to what port to use??..that most people r more likely to use other then 6881-6889....
 
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scarecrow

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Say 52,221 to 52,241 should suffice even for heavy traffic, although myself am using Azureus (or XBT on old, slow machines) as clients, which both require just ONE port (TCP and UDP) being open.
It does not matter at all which port the other clients are set at... once you aren't bottnecked by either your firewall or your ISP, you should be able to connect full speed to other peers, regardless of the port(s) they use.
Just avoid leechers clients (G3 etc...) or clients with bad bittorrent protocol implementation (Shareaza, MLDonkey etc...) as many trackers have banned them.
 
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