Top Gear season 4 and torrent problem

[jensked]

I'm not entirely familiar with torrents...

Here on my student room (with an internet connection from the university network), I can't get connected to more than 3 or 4 peers and no seeds. And he frequently gives a connection error.

Is this due to the restrictions the university puts on its network or is there something with the torrent?

downloadspeed 0kb/s (shown in orange) and uploadspeed: 10kb/s
client: azureus

[Buba]

Are you dling the torrent from the other thread? The piratebay one?

They usually are quite fast from there, but the tracker doesn't respond all the time... They got huge loads, obviously...

For how long has it been like this?

It may well be you are getting restricted on some ports...

Buba

[bigfoot1942]

open azureus and look at the ports the clients you are connecting to are using.
pls post the ports here, probabely ports like 21, 22, 25, 80, 110, 3389, 8080.
The Uni probabely restricted access to other ports.

[jensked]

now it doesn't do anything anymore.

There's a configuration wizard in Azureus where you can test ports. Now even the 6881 gives a 'NAT error'. So I can't connect to anything. So I also can't give you the ports those clients are using.

So now torrents don't work anymore.

[bigfoot1942]

still azureus tries to do a lot of things. View the "console"..

[jensked]

well

now it's working again...but very very slow and i don't connect to a lot of peers/seeds. mostly 5kb down and 15kb up

But i guess there's nothing we can do about it . The university network has a very fast connection, but they limit the connections for the students. I guess we'll blame it to that.

Thanks a lot anyway

[bigfoot1942]

blocked ports idd.
my wish for 2005 was more people used standard ports like 21, 80 or 445 (perhaps 8080) etc for torrenting. As soon as a client uses one of those ports you can connect for sure, and they would upload their share (like 10KB/s per client) and they would get a D*MN fine download speed in return.

unfortunately i cant make everybody use standard ports, but at least i do.

[Cruzz563]

I use 56560-56569, why don't you post what ports you want at least our members to use for our torrents, bigfoot?

[bigfoot1942]

i guess i tried that once, but it didnt get much response.
Anyhow, using port 80 for torrents would rule, there isnt a single firewall in the world that blocks connections to port 80.

[jensked]

why do I get a NAT error when I configure Azureus to port 80?

[bigfoot1942]

you cant forward ports
and port 80 incoming has been blocked by the IT staff of your UNI.
But you can perfectly connect to others running at port 80 and having their ports mapped. Your port 80 outbound hasnt been blocked, otherwise you would be unable so surf.