Ports

[superquad1968]

What is the fastest port to use when downloading P2P? I'm on Cogeco high speed.

And while I'm asking why can I never get http speed from P2P. I understand that my DL speed is based on how many others are sharing but are there other reasons.

Thanks,

SQ

 

[thewheelman]

While, I have not heard of Cogeco deploying traffic managers, (traffic managers limit the amount of bandwidth a specific protocol or service is allowed to use in an area), they may have some online.

Try and use either the uTorrent or the BitComet client. Once installed , configure the client to use encryption, (this is critical)
set your upstream limit to around 20KB/s max,
and chose a nonstandard port.

Many have reported that using port 1720 works well, as 1720 is a designated port for VOIP and will not be blocked. (Truth is, this is a bug in the traffic managers and will be fixed)

Make sure your firewall, both the software type, like Windows built-in firewall, and hardware types, like routers, are configured to pass UDP and TCP on the port you selected.

There are lot of theories about how to get around the traffic managers, but 99% of these are just guesses.

 

[tarasbulba]

Basically any port should do just the same. However as others have noted some providers throttle down traffic to some ports.

You can use any port above 10000 since theyre never blocked or throttled down. Maximum is 65535.

uTorrent is best, and then Azureus. I dislike bittorrent for some reason.

 

[Bud123]

Alot of private bittorrent sites won't allow you to use bittorrent.
My choice is utorrent!

 

[Cobster]

there was a rumor that 1525 was ideal.
I just set my bitcomet for automatic, and it flies.
It depends on the seeds, I find.