BitTorrent issues with FC4 isos
Alex Evonosky
alex at alexevon.org
Tue Jun 14 19:10:58 UTC 2005
Ben Steeves wrote:
> On 6/14/05, Jared Buck <JBuck814366460 at aol.com> wrote:
>
>> I'vve tried everything I can think of, and right now, BT in my opinion is
>>just not very efficient at downloading ANYTHING. At my current speed it will
>>take 8 DAYS to finish downloading the FC4 isos, and that isn't acceptable to
>>me. These slow speeds are the only reason I currently have a very big
>>dislike of BT.
>
>
> Talk with your ISP... maybe they're blocking/filtering ports.
>
> Investigate. NMAP your machine from the outside and see if ports
> 6881-6899 are open. It doesn't sound like they are.
>
Sounds more like they are mitigating traffic on those ports. They are
allowing them, but at only at bandwidth x on those ports. This is
usually done using mitigating appliances within the headend/ISP.
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