lacroixdp Posted December 8, 2006 Report Share Posted December 8, 2006 Hello!I live out in the country and unfortunately the only internet service out here is cellular... HSDPA (1.2mbps down; 384kbps up) is pretty speedy, but Cingular is putting up a fight. By default, their APN (isp.cingular) blocks all incoming requests and per them it is setup this way on purpose so that you don't host websites, etc... Unfortunately the only way to open all your ports is to pay $5000 on top of several hundred dollars a month for an external IP Address. uTorrent currently hits my upload limit, but my download limit is low (10KB/s). If I probe my ports using ShieldsUp, it reports all my ports as stealth. uTorrent port checker confirms this - these tests are undergone on the system that the aircard resides on, as well as no firewalls or NATs being up on my end. Does anybody have any ideas on how to get uTorrent performing better? I have DHT enabled, but I get a red exclamation point indicating an error. I've talked to several insiders at Cingular and there just isn't a way to open up any ports, so unfortunately that's not an option for me. Thanks for any ideas anybody has! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted December 8, 2006 Report Share Posted December 8, 2006 Wireless providers generally don't allow you to forward your ports. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lacroixdp Posted December 8, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2006 Yes it's quite unfortunate... I suppose this is similar to how a university might try to block applications. So the performance I'm getting with it is about the best I'm going to be able to get with my ports being blocked by Cingular? Thanks again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted December 8, 2006 Report Share Posted December 8, 2006 If you select xx/384k in the Speed Guide, then yes, that's about as good as it's going to get for you. Maybe lowering the global number of connections to maybe 100 and per-torrent connections to 60 might also be a good idea, but that's about all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lacroixdp Posted December 8, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2006 I'll try those settings out - thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted December 8, 2006 Report Share Posted December 8, 2006 Those are just guesses, as I don't really know what's optimal for wireless connections, but I do know they might conk out much quicker than regular connections if you open too many simultaneous connections. You might have to play with those numbers, but the general gist of it is that you likely need to set the connection counts lower than the Speed Guide recommends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
12345 Posted December 10, 2006 Report Share Posted December 10, 2006 May be using "Tor" would help, it encrypts the traffic going in/out of your pc so that ISPs don't know what is passing through their networks. I don't know if it will work for you and I also don't know if utorrent supports it (may be some one here can tell you about that)see this website for more info about "Tor"http://tor.eff.org/and sorry that I won't be able to help you with "Tor" configuration because I'm not using it.[MERGE]I guess "Tor" is not needed because utorrent supports protocol encryptionhttp://utorrent.com/faq.php#Does_.C2B5Torrent_support_Protocol_Encryption.3F Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted December 10, 2006 Report Share Posted December 10, 2006 1) Tor should NOT be used for BitTorrent traffic.2) Tor doesn't encrypt traffic. It tunnels connections through a bunch of Tor nodes so to try to attain a certain level of anonymity.3) Encrypting traffic will NOT get around being unable to forward ports. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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