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jujueye · 11-29-2005, 04:14 PM

Okay, I got Az to work here. First time ever that torrents work on my home machine. Here are some things I did.

Apparently you need to use ANY port above, say, 40000. No, I don't know why. It may have something to do with unadvertised blocked ports by your ISP.

I had to forward the port I chose, but it looks like you're getting that to work. Use the Az configure checking too.

Also, I had to enable UPNP on my router. Nothing worked before that then blammo, it all fell together. Hopefully that is an option with your router.

Finally, yes: the source of the files can be a bitch. If you have just a few seeders and 50 leechers, you'll get no more speed than you did with your first dial-up modem. Az also allows you to se the up/download speeds so a lot of people will get the file, then seed it with a stupidly low up speed. It's disgruntled internet access at it's finest. If everyone would play fair, this would be a far cooler sharing option than it currently is. Anyway, when you are searching for files, at the very least find some that have a good seed/leech ratio to get you started. Otherwise you'll get things like an ETA of 5d 23h.........Yeah, I'm griping. There are lots of other speed problems than can be tweaked. Google is your friend.

11-29-2005, 04:14 PM	#17 (permalink)
jujueye alpaca lunch for the trip Location: in my computer	Okay, I got Az to work here. First time ever that torrents work on my home machine. Here are some things I did. Apparently you need to use ANY port above, say, 40000. No, I don't know why. It may have something to do with unadvertised blocked ports by your ISP. I had to forward the port I chose, but it looks like you're getting that to work. Use the Az configure checking too. Also, I had to enable UPNP on my router. Nothing worked before that then blammo, it all fell together. Hopefully that is an option with your router. Finally, yes: the source of the files can be a bitch. If you have just a few seeders and 50 leechers, you'll get no more speed than you did with your first dial-up modem. Az also allows you to se the up/download speeds so a lot of people will get the file, then seed it with a stupidly low up speed. It's disgruntled internet access at it's finest. If everyone would play fair, this would be a far cooler sharing option than it currently is. Anyway, when you are searching for files, at the very least find some that have a good seed/leech ratio to get you started. Otherwise you'll get things like an ETA of 5d 23h.........Yeah, I'm griping. There are lots of other speed problems than can be tweaked. Google is your friend. Last edited by jujueye; 11-29-2005 at 06:22 PM..