Public wireless connections

[mars_army]

Hi, new user of Utorrent here, and so far I'm loving it. Was a longtime user of Azureus...and yeah, I still don't entirely understand Network settings and whatnot.

Just wondering, considering I do all my high speed internet stuff on wireless hotspots, what's the best Port and settings I should use?

At the cafe I go to a lot, I used port 6881 for Azureus and usually get around 30-40 kb/s which is pretty much the fastest it's gona get which is fine with me I suppose. I was using the initial port when I first downloaded UT but it was going much to slow and often wouldn't start downloads, so I switched the port to 6881 and now it performs about as well as Azureus did. However, the FAQ recommends not using ports 6881-6889 or something like that? So I was wondeirng if anyone had any suggestions.

Laptop specs: AMD Turion 64 1.8ghz, 1gb RAM, WinXP sp2, Windows Firewall

[ben]

i just use a random port, like.. 32999

[splintax]

As ben said, use a random port.

The ports 6881-6889 are used by default in most BitTorrent clients which means many ISPs will throttle them (ie. slow down traffic on them). I imagine this is even more likely to occur on a wireless hotspot..

[mars_army]

hey thanks guys.

i used a random port and now the speeds are above 100kb/s

is it better to use a port number in the ten thousand range? like the one ben said, 32999? or is it okay to use one in the thousand range like 5991?

[Animorc]

It's not recommended since other applications might use those ports.

[Firon]

Better to use a port above 10000.