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trap_jaw4 January 2nd, 2004 02:03 AM

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Originally posted by Peerless
interesting...from what I have been reading lately, I suspect that your ISP is blocking p2p traffic..and when you used port 80, you fooled them for a bit...there is a new program out that system admins can use which is able to figure out what traffic on port 80 is from p2p usage, and I suspect you have been found out as it were..hence the 1 hr of good use, then sudden disconnect...
I doubt it, - LimeWire isn't using the specified port for outgoing connections. It's just listening on that port for incoming connections. Only ultrapeers need the listening port to get connected.
For leaf-ultrapeer connections LimeWire uses random ports from the higher ranges (32768 - 65535).

I rather suspect that someone was downloading something from you and this took up so much of your bandwidth that you couldn't sustain your gnutella connections. - In that case going to tools->options->upload-> basic and moving the slider to the far left should help.

If an ISP is blocking p2p traffic, it usually takes him only a few bytes of the message stream to identify it. So you would be disconnected in a matter of seconds.

trap_jaw4 January 2nd, 2004 10:05 AM

Some ISPs give connections to ports 8080, 80 and a couple of other ports a higher priority.

So you could fool primitive traffic shapers to give your traffic a higher priority if the remote host is listening on port 80. Many ISPs have already been using solutions like the one described in the article for a while, which allows them to give only verified web & email traffic priority.

icarshaman January 5th, 2004 04:41 PM

sohow do you change your port setting.?

trap_jaw4 January 5th, 2004 06:01 PM

Changing your own port doesn't help you. You need all the other servents to change their ports to take advantage of a sloppy ISP giving priority to traffic from and to port 80. Your own outgoing connections come from random ports in the 32768-65535 range.

Morgwen January 6th, 2004 01:56 AM

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Originally posted by trap_jaw4
Changing your own port doesn't help you.
If your ISP is reducing the speed of your ports it helps - at least it worked for me with eMule (provider Tiscali). My download speed increased from 3kb to 60kb...

Morgwen


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