BitTorrent and Firewalls
I have a wierd problem with BitTorrent lately, when I download Naruto and Prince of Tennis, the speeds I get are great, and since I use BitTornado, the status light is green which means I ain't firewalled.
When I download One Piece from Kaizoku Fansubs, I get the yellow status which means I'm firewalled or no one has attempted to connect with me. I use a linksys router and have my computer set as the DMZ host.
So I'm wondering if anyone knows what else could be causing the download failure. I get ridiculous speeds, and waiting 3000+ hours to download 10 episodes does not seem fun to me.
Also as a note, I had no problems getting the first 40 episodes from the same place.
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(3/24/04 8:36 am) Reply
Re: BitTorrent and Firewalls
Step one, take yourself *OUT* of the DMZ
Step two, enable port forwarding to your computer on the ports BT uses.
Then try to figure out what it going on.
Outside the DMZ it could be something as silly as some asshat trying a DoS attack on you so your connection drops so you don't slow him down.
There is no need to be outside of the DMZ to use BitTorrent
InvisiBill Registered User
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(3/24/04 3:03 pm) Reply
Re: BitTorrent and Firewalls
Like Ragwheed said, you should probably take your PC out of the DMZ. Putting it in the DMZ puts it outside any firewalling the router does. It's the exact same security level as plugging your PC directly into the modem (which isn't necessarily that bad, but you need to understand what's happening).
I have no idea why BT would work fine sometimes, but not others. I know some peer to peer programs won't work right if both ends are NAT-ed. It doesn't seem like this should affect BT, but it could be (or something similar/related).
Thanks
Actually, for some odd reason, even with DMZ my comp had ALL ports stealthed according to ShieldsUp! at www.grc.com
Its seem that I needed to static IP my network connection of my NIC, then set the port forwarding for the ports I want before it can work.
Not to mention I had to static IP every computer on my network because if I didn't 2 computers downloading from the same port would just screw everything up. Took AGES to figure out!
InvisiBill Registered User
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(3/25/04 3:19 pm) Reply
Re: Thanks
FYI, you don't need to manually configure your PC's IP to use port forwarding. The router will be set up to always forward those ports to that IP, so you just have to make sure that your PC always gets that IP. A lot of routers let you reserve DHCP addresses. It's regular DHCP, but you tell the router that MAC address 00:11:22:33:44:55 should always get IP 192.168.0.101. That way, it won't let other PCs get your IP address, and it won't give your PC any other IP address. But you don't have to manually set up other PCs, which is really handy.
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