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Posted 2004-07-23, 09:49 AM
in reply to Medieval Bob's post starting "I can never get more than 5kbps on..."
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You need to be able to accept incoming requests. The whole point of the bittorrent system is that you get a faster DL, because everyone consuming the download bandwidth is providing it to others, so the number of downloaders has little effect on the download speed. In order to keep people honest, the BitTorrent server, which orchestrates all this peer2peer sharing, only allows you to download as fast as you upload, plus some offset. If you're behind a firewall, it can hinder others' ability to get connections to you, and so since the server thinks you're snubbing them, it snubs you.
So, you need to forward the appropriate range of ports (6881-6889) at the firewall, if you want good downloads.
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