firewall trick for faster BitTorrent downloads

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 20 March 2006 15:10, Florin Andrei wrote:
>If BitTorrent is not as fast as it should, and if the cause is your
>local firewall blocking the upload channels, here's a command you can
>run as root on your system to open up the BitTorrent upload ports:
>
>iptables -I INPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp \
> --dport 6881:6999 -j ACCEPT

And what would be the equivalent to this when the port is forwarded to 
another internal address on the same subnet as the machine running 
iptables, please?  I beleive I'm cramping it a bit as it appears I only 
have one port open, the one  I selected in azureus when I was also 
running bt-4.11.

I'm currently showing 4 seeds and 65 peers in azureus, but dl speeds are 
ranging in the 125% to 175% of the upload speed, which is only half 
filling the upload pipe here.  Its somewhat restricted in order that 
mail etc can continue flowing.  I did, for a short time, see over 
1.1MB/Sec down, but it didn't last very long.  Its a 256/1.5 circuit.

>Run this if your local firewall is tightly closed and it will allow
>uploads.
>After you're done with BitTorrent, run the same command, but replacing
>-I with -D and it will close the firewall back up.

>--
>Florin Andrei
>
>http://florin.myip.org/

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