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Originally posted by devhen
figured it out... apparently through my AT&T cable connection I can't accept incoming connections on port 4662. this is what is stopping me from downloading. i guess sometimes (very seldom) i can connect through port 80 and download a little bit but not enough to get anything accomplished. fasttrack clients like kazaa lite let me set my port to 80 and i can download very well that way so i guess i'll just have to give up on the gnutella clients.
i wasn't able to find any information on this on at&t's support pages. anyone know of anything i can do? any other at&t users out there that know which port i should use? |
Hello!
By changing to port 6346, 6347 or 6355 and then configure your FireWall or Router to allow communications over those ports you will probably be able to use Gnutella whitout a problem if your ISP allow it.
However you could be unlucky and your ISP may block Gnutella traffic. But the fact that you are able to connect at all and search for stuff and occassionally download at slow speeds indicates that your ISP may be using a packet analysing tool such as Packet Hound from Palisade Systems which will slow downloads to a crawl to conserve bandwidth from your ISP's point of view and also after a certain amount of time even cut the download off completely after it had found out it was Gnutella traffic. Read more about it here:
http://www.palisadesystems.com/
Also to seek for further troubleshooting techniques regarding the inability to download and Shareaza read this complete thread:
http://www.shareaza.com/forum/viewth...ID=3070&Page=1