[Gllug] Biitorrent for a dummy

[Richard Jones]

On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 03:24:08PM +0000, Benedikt Heinen wrote:
> But - speaking of bittorrent - has anyone here ever used bittorrent on a 
> Mac (and encountered problems with it? Namely - incredibly slow 
> downloads)?
[...]
> And one of my machines that was also torrenting the CD image in question 
> only sent him about 2-3kb/s whereas some other peers downloaded at more 
> than 100kb/s from my machine...

I've used BT on the Mac with excellent results.  

In your case, it looks like your firewall is OK, but it bears
repeating: Check to see if you have a firewall in the way which could
be dropping the back-connections.  You need to ensure that at least
ports 6881-6889 INCOMING point to the machine running BT.

There are companies flogging devices to ISPs which (claim to) rate
limit "peer-to-peer" traffic.  Your ISP might have one ...

Rich.

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