mars_army Posted November 27, 2005 Report Share Posted November 27, 2005 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben Posted November 27, 2005 Report Share Posted November 27, 2005 i just use a random port, like.. 32999 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splintax Posted November 28, 2005 Report Share Posted November 28, 2005 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.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mars_army Posted November 29, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 29, 2005 hey thanks guys.i used a random port and now the speeds are above 100kb/sis 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animorc Posted November 29, 2005 Report Share Posted November 29, 2005 It's not recommended since other applications might use those ports. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted November 29, 2005 Report Share Posted November 29, 2005 Better to use a port above 10000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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