Tachikoma
Thu, 04-29-2004, 03:35 PM
I've just downloaded BitTornado, and found that I now have load of options that I never got with BitTorrent. Tornado says that it uses ports from 6881 to 6999. At the moment, the only BT port I've opened on the firewall is 6969, as this is the one stated on BoxTorrents ( from where I get the majority of my torrents).
However, my BT downloads don't seem to be going much, if any, faster than they normally do. I understand that d/l rates depend on the number of seeders and peers, etc, but I know that opening ports also helps - this is assuming that different torrents use different ports, seeing as BT uses a range of them.
The only problem with this is that I can only open 20 ports on the hub at any one time (and most are already in use), far too few to open all the BT ports. My question, then, is whether or not there is any way I can find out which port(s) a specific torrent is using, so that I can only said port(s) and optimise my downloads (like the 4.3Gb one I've got going now).
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However, my BT downloads don't seem to be going much, if any, faster than they normally do. I understand that d/l rates depend on the number of seeders and peers, etc, but I know that opening ports also helps - this is assuming that different torrents use different ports, seeing as BT uses a range of them.
The only problem with this is that I can only open 20 ports on the hub at any one time (and most are already in use), far too few to open all the BT ports. My question, then, is whether or not there is any way I can find out which port(s) a specific torrent is using, so that I can only said port(s) and optimise my downloads (like the 4.3Gb one I've got going now).
Any help apprieciated i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif