Comments on: Life in the slow lane

By: Keane

Keane — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 09:23:52 +0000

Bah, spoke too soon, Pipex have started throttling BitTorrent for everyone! Solution - encryption uTorrent’s latest beta does the trick…

By: Keane

Keane — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 23:19:12 +0000

I’m not completely sure about how bittorrent works, but I think the port you specify is used for both incoming and outgoing connections, otherwise I think my firewall would be blocking it… I guess the port you use is stored on the tracker.

I’m with Pipex - it costs slightly more, but I get unlimited downloads (or at least what appears to be unlimited)…

By: shauny

shauny — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 11:11:55 +0000

hmm have tried a few different ports - maybe port 80 would be worth a try as they’re not limiting my HTTP use - dunno if that will make any diff tho - i can’t change what other bittorrent users are using, so any of my outbound connections are liable to be bandwith-limited…

the usage did surprise me - I only have a 40 gig HDD!! I did get into a habit of leaving torrents running after they’d finished - so probably ran up a lot of bandwidth that way - ah and internet radio too - sometimes left that running 24 hrs a day without realising

which ISP are you with?

i’m not that optimistic we will get adsl2+ in april when BT says we will - judging by their past performance

By: Keane

Keane — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 13:12:55 +0000

Can’t you just change the port that Bittorrent uses? I’ve heard of ISPs blocking certain ports to try and prevent P2P, maybe changing the port to something non-standard may help. I changed mine and never had a problem (but then I don’t download 60Gb a month!! How big is your hard drive?)

Plus of course, I’m with a decent ISP

Boo to ADSL 2+, wonder how miniscule the chances are of the Lingfield exchange being upgraded!