Firewalls

[Cathedral]

Ok, I finally bit the torrent, ha ha, (sorry, bad joke).

No, really, I just learned all this bit torrent stuff, but my BT program is giving me a yellow light and i think it is because of a firewall Roadrunner provides for the customers.

Anyway, how do you find out if you are behind one, and how do you make it Bit Torrent friendly?

Thanks!

[thome]

How many Seeders are there and do you have XP or 98 or what

[FORD]

Your software firewall should have a listing of the programs that it has open, and the ones that it has blocked.

With most newer software firewalls, you can just set it at the program level and it opens the ports automatically.

Your BT client might ask for a specific range of ports by default, but it will probably let you use whatever ports your firewall has open.

For example, Bit Tornado defaults to ports 6881 - 6889. So if you can configure specific ports in your firewall for each program, then probably best to stick to that range.

[Cathedral]

Originally posted by thome
How many Seeders are there and do you have XP or 98 or what

6 seeders and i'm on XP...

[thome]

http://www.bittorrent.com/FAQ.html#firewall

[Cathedral]

Originally posted by FORD
Your software firewall should have a listing of the programs that it has open, and the ones that it has blocked.

With most newer software firewalls, you can just set it at the program level and it opens the ports automatically.

Your BT client might ask for a specific range of ports by default, but it will probably let you use whatever ports your firewall has open.

For example, Bit Tornado defaults to ports 6881 - 6889. So if you can configure specific ports in your firewall for each program, then probably best to stick to that range.

The thing is, I don't even know if i have a firewall. the ISP says it's free, so i imagine it's just there.
I don't know how to open this program to see the stuff you refer to, lol.

[Cathedral]

Oh, and i'm using Bit Tornado...this stuff is easier than i thought, ceptin' for this firewall issue.
But then again, maybe it's going as fast as it's going to.
it is downloading, just very slowly.

Thanks to both of you for responding by the way.

[thome]

Originally posted by Cathedral
6 seeders and i'm on XP...

rite mouse on your Internet Explorer Icon

go to the security tab click/ then privacy tab do both

then lower bar to Low


Or go to Start menu

click on Control panel

then click on Network connections

thenclick on change firewall settings

turn firewall off

Mine is like this but i have a security program that
promts me at an incurtion and i click ye

[Ally_Kat]

Originally posted by Cathedral
The thing is, I don't even know if i have a firewall. the ISP says it's free, so i imagine it's just there.
I don't know how to open this program to see the stuff you refer to, lol.

You do, cuz Roadrunner NYC does and it prevents me from doing a lot with filesharing. It's evil and hates me

[thome]

Originally posted by Ally_Kat
You do, cuz Roadrunner NYC does and it prevents me from doing a lot with filesharing. It's evil and hates me

Its automatic(default setting) but can be turned on or off best to put it back up after you finish torrenting
unless you have a security program like Norton..

[Cathedral]

ok, i have the windows firewall off already, I need to figure out where the damn controls are for Roadrunner, and their site is not accesible right now.
I'm guessing that is where it is, and that's where i can't get, lol.

All my virus stuff is off until i reboot when i'm done.

[Cathedral]

Originally posted by Ally_Kat
You do, cuz Roadrunner NYC does and it prevents me from doing a lot with filesharing. It's evil and hates me

Do you know how to access its controls?

[FORD]

If Road runner sets up their shit like Comcast does, you have to be running Microsoft Internet Explorer and run their proprietary web-based versions of the "security" software.

I won't give up Firefox, so I don't use their shit. Got plenty of my own options.

[thome]

Click on the yellow light on the torrent file page It will tell you what the lights mean.

I've forgotten its been a while i usually dumped (closed) the file clicked the
X and then go to JTT or whereever you torrenting from and i would reload as i did the first time .

better connection

[Cathedral]

I know what it means, it's tells me i'm behind a firewall and i should look into routing Bit Torrent through my firewall or proxy server, lol, and there's the sticky point.

It also says that maybe i haven't recieved any incoming connections from others. isn't that for if people are leeching off of me if i were seeding?

I got onto Roadrunner and i never downloaded their free software so i'm not using their firewall it seems.