Teksavvy and Bittorrent

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 11:10:54AM -0400, JoeHill wrote:
> Finally got around to signing up for Teksavvy, no more dealing with the robots
> at Sympatico, yay!
> 
> Having some of the same issues with my connection and wondering if all of them
> are to do with the fact that the physical connection is still to Bell's
> hardware.
> 
> In particular, I am finding that Bittorrent in problematic. With Sympatico I
> was showing in Azureus as being firewalled a lot of the time, and download
> speeds are really slow. This is seemingly continuing with Teksavvy. Uploads are
> incredibly slow, or nonexistent, usually meaning that something is preventing
> incoming connections altogether, IIRC.
> 
> Anyone have any experience with this, or know how I could test on my end what
> might be interfering? I know that with Sympatico I was frequently showing
> problems with my upstream bandwidth, and this is something I'm going to have
> Teksavvy check into, but if there's some tool I can try on my end to see what's
> going on, that would be cool too.

Are you running a firewall?  You almost certainly are, in which case
maybe it is telling you the right thing.  You usually want a certain
port range open for incoming traffic assigned to your bittorrent client.
With many of the router boxes you can have the bit torrent client open
and forward ports automatically using upnp, while others require you
manually forwarding a port range and telling the client to bind to those
port numbers.

I always use bittornado (btlaunchmanycurses specifically).  Seems to be
the best there is.

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