Torrent tip: Use a non-standard listen port range

[Kevin J. Cummings]

Kenneth Porter wrote:
> When starting your torrent client, select a random range of ports not in
> the usual torrent band from 6881-6999. Many ISP's are naively shaping
> traffic on those ports to keep P2P uses from taking bandwidth from their
> precious web users. By announcing ports outside that range, you can
> often escape the shaping and get full speed that would otherwise be
> throttled. I've been using ranges in the 50000's, but any random port
> range between 1024 and 65535 should work. Newer clients can serve from a
> single port. Older clients require a range, which should be between 10
> and 100 ports, as they serve each peer on a different port.
> 

Good point, I'll have to play with it to see how RCN handles things....

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