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second_exodous
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 Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 10:10 pm Post subject: Routing bittorrent-the shadow through my firewall. |
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I get a yellow circle, indicating:
| Quote: | | You have not recieved any incoming connections from other. It may only be because no one has tried. If you never see the status light turn green, it may indicate your system is behind a firewall or proxy server. Please look into routing BitTorrent through your firewall in order to recieve the best possible download rate. |
How do I do that? I have a linksys befsx41, I've never really messed with the preferences, don't know that much about them. Do I need to change stuff there?
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Angrybob
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| Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 10:25 pm Post subject: |
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| you need to open up ports 6880 - 6889 I think, go to the bittorrent webpage It tells you in the FAQ |
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second_exodous
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Hmm, what is the applications name? I'm running bittorrent s-5.8.11 (SHADOW's experimental), or at least that what the about says. Do I need the correct app name for my router? The status isn't changing.
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second_exodous
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Oh, I just had to restart bittorrent, wow, now I'm downloading at 200/k a second, before I was only doing 1-3.
How dangerous is it opening these ports? Should I close them when I'm not useing bittorrent?
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ogre2112
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It's relatively safe. Most people leave them open. If you happened to have other services that also use those ports (probably not) then close it.
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