hrb68 Posted October 29, 2009 Report Share Posted October 29, 2009 Hi Everybody,Happy to be part of the utorrent experience. I have been using utorrent for about 4 months now and have found it to be the best and most straightforward client I've yet used. I've followed instructions and have successfully done port forwarding and firewall exceptions, which have worked well. I'm also using AVG free version and was wondering whether I should perhaps put exceptions in those as well. I am unsure how to do this though. Also I have read alot about the effectiveness of programs life Peer Guardian, some people say they are irrelevent and others say they are essential. I downloaded it once and it was a bit too confusing for a beginner like me. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moogly Posted October 29, 2009 Report Share Posted October 29, 2009 Just don't use it. uT has a built-in solution to block some IPs, it's ipfilter.dat (see the FAQ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted October 29, 2009 Report Share Posted October 29, 2009 It's still useless. All these anti-p2p IP filters are worthless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted October 29, 2009 Report Share Posted October 29, 2009 The *ONLY* thing a blocklist is useful for is blocking hostile peers...and that's only good *IF* you know the peers are hostile.Peer Guardian's associated blocklists (from BlueTack) block a huge number of dynamic ips on major ISPs. If these were ever hostiles, they almost certainly aren't now...they're likely some average Joe who has one of those ips now. And you'd be blocking him...If you're really unlucky, you could be in one of those ip ranges. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTHK Posted October 29, 2009 Report Share Posted October 29, 2009 Sometimes they block anti-virus updates Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hrb68 Posted October 29, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2009 Thanks everybody, geez there really are alot of opinions out there. I'm finding that if something i hear rings true then it's probably the way to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted October 29, 2009 Report Share Posted October 29, 2009 Face it, the NATURE of BitTorrent is to advertise your ip+port to anyone and everyone participating on that torrent ...so you can connect to them and they to you. Trying to hide your ip is like trying to hide your mail box...but you still want the mail delivered! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gone-Fishin Posted June 7, 2010 Report Share Posted June 7, 2010 As far as preventing getting sued, Peer Guardian won't help. ISP's keep records of dynamic ipaddresses and times for 6 months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted June 8, 2010 Report Share Posted June 8, 2010 And the copyright monitoring companies don't even always check that an ip reported by a tracker even exists before blaming it for copyright violations:http://dmca.cs.washington.edu/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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