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Thread ID: 74287 2006-11-17 06:59:00 P2P and Download Manager/Accelerator distressed damsal (11483) Press F1
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499923 2006-11-17 06:59:00 Help please, I have been using BitTorrent to download from P2P sites (with IE) but unfortunately I was sucked in to "Go Large" and the bottom fell out of my speeds, I read that a Download manager/accelerator could help and I downloaded "BitTorrent Ultra Accelerator" by Traffic Speeders (seemed like a good idea at the time) and everything went pear shaped, I have got rid of this software and everything is back to what I had before which is very slow, does anyone know of a good download manager/accelerator that works with IE and BitTorrent and how to use it? distressed damsal (11483)
499924 2006-11-17 07:41:00 Welcome to PF1, i think we need a seperate section for p2p/bittorent. Download accelerator like getright supports torrents but i dont think there is any speed difference. if you want speedy torrent downloads move to sweden. gum digger (6100)
499925 2006-11-17 07:50:00 But getright isnt free. Speedy Gonzales (78)
499926 2006-11-17 07:50:00 I fear that xtra doesn't like p2p or torrents or downloading or . . a lot of other things, so they slow you down until you promise to limit yourself to 2 emails a day.;) Whatever, they will throttle the bandwidth quite a bit. R2x1 (4628)
499927 2006-11-17 07:50:00 Some ISPs block or restrict the common ports associated with P2P and torrents. Investigate you bittorrent client and see if it allows you to change the default port.
Ian
i-gordon (962)
499928 2006-11-17 07:51:00 Thank you gumdigger I have seen the speeds the downloaders get in Sweden and I know I won't get that but I would be happy with 10kbs as this would be ten times faster than what I am getting, I am lucky at the moment to get 1kbs. distressed damsal (11483)
499929 2006-11-17 07:53:00 Some ISPs block or restrict the common ports associated with P2P and torrents. Investigate you bittorrent client and see if it allows you to change the default port.
Ian

Thank you will try this also.
distressed damsal (11483)
499930 2006-11-17 07:56:00 If its not the ISP it'll be SP2 if u have XP, that lowers the amounts of ports (like from 50 to about 10) as well.

There is a patch that says it fixes this somewhere.
Speedy Gonzales (78)
499931 2006-11-17 08:03:00 If its not the ISP it'll be SP2 if u have XP, that lowers the amounts of ports (like from 50 to about 10) as well.

There is a patch that says it fixes this somewhere.

Thank you, I am running XP, I will search for a patch.
distressed damsal (11483)
499932 2006-11-17 08:38:00 These are the default ports on the main P2P Programs, and are likely to be restricted most ISPs

BearShare 6346
Bittorrent 2181, 6881-6999
Blubster 41170-41350
eDonkey 4661-4662 5737
eDonkey2000 4661-4662 4665
eMule 4661-4662,4711 4665,4672
Gnutella 6346/6347 6346/6347
Grouper 8038 8038
Kazaa 1214 1214
Limewire 6346/6347 6346/6347
Morpheus 6346/6347 6346/6347
Shareaza 6346 6346
WinMx 6699 6257

I suggest any port in the 10000 to 11000 Range or higher if you can change it.
Ian
i-gordon (962)
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