janzam Posted March 15, 2007 Report Share Posted March 15, 2007 I would appreciate a professional opinion rearding whether or not port 80 (HTTP) can be used for incoming connections, even when not browsing the web?Also, i have just switched from a dynamic to a static ip with unlimited downloads. Beforehand, i used to be downloading new torrents at 400KB/s. Now, with the exact same settings, it remains at 10-15KB/s Maximum. Does one get credited maybe for uploading or something like that? Maybe since i switched to a new ip it needs sometime to get back to normal? I have no idea guys, so i'd reeaally appreciate your help, before i ive up on utorrent completely!! Cheers guys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5parky Posted March 16, 2007 Report Share Posted March 16, 2007 the default port for webservers is port 80, when you surf the web you connect to port 80 not from port 80 on your end, so if you set a program to listen for incoming connection on port 80 you won't have any conflicts unless you have something useing that port on your PC (like a webserver or other program set for port 80) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted March 16, 2007 Report Share Posted March 16, 2007 The default port 80 is often blocked by ISPs so customers can't run "illegal" web servers on them...and so viruses/worms designed to infect websites cannot auto-infect lots of customer computers. (If that port were unblocked by default, then viruses/worms would probably find whatever security holes they could to break in.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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