Maggie Posted June 13, 2006 Report Share Posted June 13, 2006 Or should I buy the PORT TRIGGER ?Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WebReaper Posted June 13, 2006 Report Share Posted June 13, 2006 Yes, it's safe, it's just a number. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted June 13, 2006 Report Share Posted June 13, 2006 It's ok for others to see your port number. It's a requirement if you don't want to be firewalled in µTorrent.Port Triggers just makes it forward after seeing traffic on that port...resulting occassionally in firewalled conditions due to low traffic rate.If you're using a non-standard port above 4000, the security risk of forwarding 1 port for µTorrent is very low.You're at far more risk just surfing the internet even with EVERY port firewalled, due to stuff websites can feed you when you connect to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maggie Posted June 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 13, 2006 I have DSL - LAN with IP 10.**** I opened in ZONE ALARM the port 37***. In ALCATEL DSL modem I did the NAPT, as utorrent says in FAQ.Is it a safe number or what is the exact port number I should use ?I have to change them all to be safe.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
µtorrent-Guest Posted June 13, 2006 Report Share Posted June 13, 2006 MaggieThere is nothing like a "safe" or "unsafe" portnumber.They are all equal!NO need to worry. Just by surfing to a normal website like this here or any other you have ports open. you can chose what ever port you like! The only concern for you could be that when YOU choose a port that is well known for mail or something like that, that OTHERS get a stupid warning in their firewall that their client send mail to you. (which is of cause a false positive when you use on your side the mailport as your listening port)BTW:you can savely deinstall ZoneAlarm.It is "snakeoil" with no real use but causing trouble for legitimate programmes on you PC. Maleware does NOT care about ZoneAlarm!When you have XP it is enough to activate the build in Firewall!See this article from german Hackers (the good ones!) why ZoneAlarm and Co. are useless!http://copton.net/Personal_Firewalls/ccc-vortrag-en.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maggie Posted June 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 13, 2006 How can I know the mail port number?I am not such a ...big expert ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
µtorrent-Guest Posted June 13, 2006 Report Share Posted June 13, 2006 it was just an example!you can use what ever port you like!And please do not open so many threads here at once. STick in one and ask ALL your questions there so we that want to help you can concentrate on one point.are the other problems now cleared? Green light an such?!Edit: you can know the ports by googleing for "well known ports" !80 for "websurfing"25 for mailand so forth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atm999 Posted June 14, 2006 Report Share Posted June 14, 2006 you can use anything from 40000-64000 and know that 99.9% of programs don't use those ports. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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