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P2P (Bittorrent etc) configuration & use discussion...ongoing (Only place to post!)

Cabaal · 2008-07-13 20:47:21

Follwoing on from this thread http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055132322 I thought it was time to unstick the above thread and create a new thread to allow people to discuss use and configuration of bittorrent and other P2P programs on their Broadband connection it doesn't matter if its wireless, adsl or…

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#572 07-03-2009 12:37pm
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#573 07-03-2009 5:41pm
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Maybe a stupid question but...

I'm trying to forward a port on my laptop but when I go to my Eircom Netopia 2247-02 router login page it bears no resemblance to the sample pages shown in the portforward guides. Instead of a Netopia page as I've seen on other routers it's an Eircom Broadband page with configurable router details but there's nothing about pinholes etc anywhere in the menus.
Is there anything I can do about this?

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#574 07-03-2009 6:07pm
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chilly wrote: »

Maybe a stupid question but...

I'm trying to forward a port on my laptop but when I go to my Eircom Netopia 2247-02 router login page it bears no resemblance to the sample pages shown in the portforward guides. Instead of a Netopia page as I've seen on other routers it's an Eircom Broadband page with configurable router details but there's nothing about pinholes etc anywhere in the menus.
Is there anything I can do about this?

Yeah, the portforward instructions are pretty useless in that regard.

Have a read of this and see if it helps you.

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#575 08-03-2009 9:18am
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I am completely shocked here. just moved from bt to eircom and my download speeds are currently 312kb/s. that is bloody fast, i never got a third of that of with BT.
guess who the happy camper is the morning. :D:D

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#576 08-03-2009 6:26pm
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DeepBlue wrote: »

Yeah, the portforward instructions are pretty useless in that regard.

Have a read of this and see if it helps you.

Thank you very much for that.I followed the instructions and along with the help of a friend I managed to do it!

I read up a little and it seems you can update your routers firmware so it is the same as the firmware that you follow in most of the port forward guides but I'm glad I didn't have to bother with that in the end.

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#577 09-03-2009 7:50pm
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DeepBlue wrote: »

Yeah, the portforward instructions are pretty useless in that regard.

Have a read of this and see if it helps you.

I spent hours the other day trying to get connectable using the portforward guide. Complete waste of time.

I had tried to do it in the past on numerous occassions and always failed.

Thanks alot for the guide. Now i am finally connectable

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#578 09-03-2009 8:06pm
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Must say...following portforwarding.com instructions for my Netgear Wireless G (UPS 10mg supplied) and I had download speeds (bittorrent) of 1.1mb straight after , thats double if not treble the speed pre portforwarding reconfig.

Happy Days

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#579 09-03-2009 8:49pm
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Nephew wrote: »

I'm on Irish Broadband 3mb and healthy, heavily seeded torrents have been absolutely crawling for the last month. Is anyone else experiencing this?

Ditto. Will occassionally max out on a private tracker, but most of the time its 12-15KB/s if Im lucky

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#580 10-03-2009 2:36am
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Hey guys, was hoping someone here might be able give me some insight on this. Am with IB at the moment on their 3MB package. All was working fine until recently when the connection kept dropping.

At first i thought this was just a temporary problem, however i have since realised that it is due to me running Vuze. As soon as the program starts running the connection goes. As soon as i fully exit it, the connection comes back on.

Is this something to do with settings? As it has been working 100% for at least the last 12 months. Or is it on IB's side, trying to throttle me?

Cheers

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#581 10-03-2009 9:49am
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any bittorent client will eat into your bandwidth, espically when you have a small amount, you could be connected to 100 other people at the one time, making regular surfing extremely slow,

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#582 21-03-2009 12:55pm
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Only getting 289kb/ps with 3MB bt connection; Even though there are over 1000 seeds!

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#583 21-03-2009 1:00pm
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CutzEr wrote: »

Only getting 289kb/ps with 3MB bt connection; Even though there are over 1000 seeds!

That sounds about right assuming you mean 289KB/s

Also, regular NTL user here and it does seem as if the traffic shaping has stopped, at least outside peak hours. For the last couple of months things have been flying along :pac:

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#584 21-03-2009 1:02pm
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CutzEr wrote: »

Only getting 289kb/ps with 3MB bt connection; Even though there are over 1000 seeds!

kb or KB?

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#585 22-03-2009 9:48am
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I can second that .....

I recently downloaded a 1.3gb bittorrent and got speeds of 1.2MB , it was a Sunday afternoon .total time 44mins , thats good right ?

I am on 10mb NTL Dub .with all proper ports forwarded on my router (as soon as i done this i got a massive increase in speed ) obviously i hear you say , but it was only when i downloaded the test tool "PFPortchecker" that i found out that not all the portforwards on my router were done properly as the port checker (the web based one) can tell you your ports are forwarded when they really are not hence the orangeexclamation mark at the end of the bittorrent window telling you have network problems when i was sure i had all ports configured properly.

It was only when i used PFPortchecker that i got a true reading and bittorrent window showed that all was in order (green light)

My 2 pence worth.

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#586 22-03-2009 11:11pm
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Getting horrible torrent speeds tonight on utorrent

like piss poor, must look into this port fowarding thing

I'm on eircom btw, its really shocking poor

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#587 23-03-2009 4:06pm
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I cannot connect to any torrents lately. Usually use utorrent and now tried Bittorrent. But still have the same - Error 'HTTP Error 503' while downloading URL -

Anyone know how to overcome this?
Thanks.

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#588 24-03-2009 1:18am
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Suspiria79 wrote: »

I cannot connect to any torrents lately. Usually use utorrent and now tried Bittorrent. But still have the same - Error 'HTTP Error 503' while downloading URL -

Anyone know how to overcome this?
Thanks.

Who's your service provider? Eircom?

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#589 24-03-2009 1:25am
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mixednuts wrote: »

I can second that .....

I recently downloaded a 1.3gb bittorrent and got speeds of 1.2MB , it was a Sunday afternoon .total time 44mins , thats good right ?

I am on 10mb NTL Dub .with all proper ports forwarded on my router (as soon as i done this i got a massive increase in speed ) obviously i hear you say , but it was only when i downloaded the test tool "PFPortchecker" that i found out that not all the portforwards on my router were done properly as the port checker (the web based one) can tell you your ports are forwarded when they really are not hence the orangeexclamation mark at the end of the bittorrent window telling you have network problems when i was sure i had all ports configured properly.

It was only when i used PFPortchecker that i got a true reading and bittorrent window showed that all was in order (green light)

My 2 pence worth.

M

Mind you

www.portforward.com is very good at setting up routers. I doubt there's need for any extra than just following the instructions there. Having said that I'm currently downloading the program to see what its like.

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#590 24-03-2009 1:29am
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skyhighflyer wrote: »

Also, regular NTL user here and it does seem as if the traffic shaping has stopped, at least outside peak hours. For the last couple of months things have been flying along :pac:

Personally I think its a great thing that there's traffic shaping a peak hours. I just leave my computer run at night and in the morning there's all my torrents complete! Lovely :-D!!! I don't need torrents to download during the day, and I don't want to slow down others connection.

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#591 24-03-2009 1:57am
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Hi Guys

Just wondering if ye could help with a problem!

I'm with Magnet and torrents don't work,although LimeWire works fine,anytime I start a torrent with utorrent if says that there is a tracker problem(Red Icon). Although I have run tests to see if the torrents are been throttled but it said that they not!

Any Ideas?

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#592 24-03-2009 2:11am
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72hundred wrote: »

Who's your service provider? Eircom?

It's O2

I was able to use Vuze. Still having the same error problem with utorrent and bittorrent though.

This is what happens when I try use bittorrent:

[2009-03-24 01:19:22] IPv6 is installed
[2009-03-24 01:19:33] Error opening Windows firewall: 0x80070005 Access is denied.

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#593 24-03-2009 4:25pm
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Still having a major problem, download speeds of max .5kb/s. This is a joke, contacted a number of friends all having the same problem.

Afraid to call eircom incase i get their usual retarded customer service, but at this stage it is a joke.

Trying to download the patch preload for WoW and its just becoming stressful.

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#594 24-03-2009 4:32pm
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Doc,

Not been to obvious but .... what is the indicator on the bottom of the utorrent window saying ???

Red ..connection issue
Orange.. possible portforwarding issue
Green...All ports open and everything ok

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#595 25-03-2009 6:37pm
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Hi guys and gals.

Anyone know what the correct preferred and alternate DNS server address's to use for UPC are?

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#596 25-03-2009 11:53pm
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Hey all
just a quick question, i was just looking to download some tv shows from u-torrent, so when i try to search for them using the search bar in the program im told that netgear has blocked the website.... has anyone else experienced this??? because its a load of balls for them to start doing that outta no where. if anyone knows a way aroud it that would also be appreciated. cheers.

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#597 26-03-2009 10:43am
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mad.mike wrote: »

Hi guys and gals.

Anyone know what the correct preferred and alternate DNS server address's to use for UPC are?

"The details you require are as follows:

89.101.160.4

89.101.160.5

If you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact us on our freephone number 1908 or email us on customer.support@upc.ie

Kind regards,
Catriona

Chorus ntl Customer Support Team"

Got these recently from upc.

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#598 26-03-2009 10:52am
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I only use this site for downloading
http://www.seedmore.org/
I have 3mb with eircom and can get download speeds of well over 200KB

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#599 27-03-2009 10:49am
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ok my problem i am downloading a file from utorrent but the connction speed is very slow, so i am trying to setup a proxy server for peer to peer connection.. can anyone tell me the easy setup for this. i am a eircom customer with a wireless router.

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#600 27-03-2009 11:07am
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johnnyc wrote: »

ok my problem i am downloading a file from utorrent but the connction speed is very slow, so i am trying to setup a proxy server for peer to peer connection.. can anyone tell me the easy setup for this. i am a eircom customer with a wireless router.

Proxy server for Peer to Peer? No no no, just open up the ports on your router to allow uTorrent to connect.

http://portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/Netopia/2247NWG-VGx/Utorrent.htm

And it is essential that you have enough seeds and peers with the tracker, 15 a piece and upwards is grand, even less from private sites.

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#601 29-03-2009 5:15pm
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mad.mike wrote: »

Hi guys and gals.

Anyone know what the correct preferred and alternate DNS server address's to use for UPC are?

a lot of people find that the 'official' ISP DNS servers for most ISP's can be unreliable.

personally I use the level 3 dns servers which run from the rather memorable 4.2.2.1 all the way to 4.2.2.6.

other people use opendns 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220 which have some decent tools for ad blocking and tracking the usage on your network if you register an account with them, but they also sell the information they gather from peoples surfing habits so if you like your privacy you might want to stick with level 3.

it's up to you though, but personally, I keep a file on my PC with a few alternatives in case the ones I'm using ever crap out. can't hurt to keep your choices open.

if you have a router that supports opendns you can set it up to block porn and stuff if you have kids, or include ad-blocking etc. too. very handy.

i also think they have an IP updater to tell them any time your IP address changes so they can keep track of you and YOUR dns requests so your settings will work for anything connected to your home network.

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