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Maattp
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Maattp

Anon

Bittorrent question

On Bitcomet a light is allways on at the bottom of the screen saying that my Listening port is blocked. It says this will slow down my downloads. Any ideas on how to fix this?
bt1999
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join:2008-02-08
Markham, ON

bt1999

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You have to forward your ports and it depends on your router or modem. You can find instructions here: »portforward.com/default.htm

By the way, if you are using the SSH Tunnel, it won't matter if your ports are forwarded locally on your pc. You will essentially still have your listening ports blocked since the listening ports are really on Acanac's server.

It doesn't really matter, since all this means is that you can't connect to other peers that are similarly blocked on their own listening ports.

However, if you only use the SSH Tunnel during throttling hours, then you may want to forward your ports so that you can potentially get the maximum number of connections during off-peak hours.