whats the best listening port?

[57porkrollz]

just want to know whats the best listening port for the fastest download speed?

[DreadWingKnight]

There is no one best port.

[robincheema]

worst port?

[Thehound]

Well worst port is easily answered Anything between 6881-6889 is very bad because many ISPs are wise to torrents and will silently throttle those ports, even if they don't throttle or block the BT protocol. Likely to slow down n00bs polluting the internet with misconfigured clients That's just a guess because it's the only use I see for ISPs doing this, since most users know to pick other ports You should try to avoid other p2p ports as well, such as 1214(Kazaa) 4662(eDonkey/emule), 411-413(DC++) and some others.

[erafy]

Bad idea,

the well known ports: 1-1056.

port 0: I never tested on utorrent, but many programs dislike it.

This of course it meaningful if you have the possibility of choice, if you do not try going to gcc.com and take the shield up test. You should choice a blue port.

[schnurlos]

Best port to use: one in the range of 49152 and 65535 acc. to http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers because they are free and not registered ...

[Lord Alderaan]

schnurlos thats from a etiquettes point of view. But speed (which is what he asked for) based it doesn't matter.

I agree. 0-1056 and the old default ports 6881-6889 could hamper your speeds (not just because it could give problems with your ISP/Firewall/Services but also the firewalls/isps of peers).