Wireless Card problem with Torrents (2 questions)
 

I moved into a new apartment complex a month ago and it comes with free wireless internet. And they are using Wireless B. I have a Linksys USB wireless G adapter with speedbooster. I am running WinXP.

first question is, whenever I try to load websites, it doesnt matter which ones. Sometimes they don't load and I have to refresh a few times to get them to load. And if that doesnt work, I have to go to another site, then back to the first for it to load. I know I have a fast connections, cause I will sometimes download at almost 1 MB/s but the pages take forever to load. Is there a setting I can change to help improve the web page load time.

My next question is, whenever I try to load Azureus to download torrents it says it is DHT firewalled. So I call up Airimba wireless (the internet provider) and ask them to open some ports and they tell me that all ports are open. Also while azureus tries to download a torrent my internet connection goes down and I can't open up any websites.

ive tried to research the problem online but no luck, So i turned here. any help is appreciated.

how exactly is this setup?

does a line go into the complex and then get split by a wireless router?

and what access do you have to the setup, are you just given a SSID, or do you have access to the routers configurations to make changes.


and furthermore, if your getting shared access with the rest of the complex, dont be rude and hog it all with bit torrent, get your own line for that.

um, first off I'm not rude, and I can't connect to torrents so im not hogging anything.

The best thing I can figure is it is piped in to a central area in the apartments and the wireless connections are mounted on the side of the buildings. All I am given is an SSID and I have to access to the router at all.

That was more of a cautionary statement, regarding the possibility for hogging all the apartments bandwidth (aka the cable crisis of early 2000)

Anyway, when you are on a wireless router, you almost always have to have the specific port forwarded to your computer. I use uTorrent, and the specific port I have it running on is forwarded to my computers IP. If you do not have it forwarded, the router will send it out to all computers at the same time until someone picks it up. It usually never works this way though, thus the port forwarding part of it. Think of it as Line of Sight. If someone on the outside cannot see you (DHT Failed due to not being forward to your computer) they cannot make that connection. Firewalls can also prevent line of sight access (the router can sometimes be thought of as a mini firewall)

Since you don't have access to the router, you can see if the apartments network guy/handy man has access and would be willing to forward that port to you. They probably won't though.

Like Dilbert said, you are probably better off just getting your own connection, that way you can manage the router yourself.

Bit torrent can be very 'destructive' to a network connection, if you don’t throttle your self down you will cause massive lag on everyone’s connections, especially if it is shared between the entire complex.

does your ip address start with 192.168, 172.16-32 or 10? If so, you are behind a NAT gateway, and other computers won't be able to connect to you.

Depending on the system they're using for access control, the number of ports you're allowed to have open simultaniously is capped at either 50 or 200, more than enough for day-to-day use.

When you run a piece of software like Azureus, it hoggs every available port, leaving none for you to surf on.

Well I went ahead and just decided to get cable internet, it was the easiest and most trouble free option. I didn't want to have to turn in a school assignment online and have my internet crap out.