Topic: Transfers in the Hotey Pt.2 - Port Protocol

[Gordon]

turns out laptops come with the new 4 pin firewire and not the 6 pin

those aren't new buddy

[Just Taper Mark from NC]

turns out laptops come with the new 4 pin firewire and not the 6 pin

those aren't new buddy

hey man I'm just now making my 1st laptop venture here and know nothing about them
so cut a brother some slack.look how long it took me to break away from DAT 

but my whole world has been turned upside down with windows 7 and what does/doesn't work on it so now I got learn something else besides wavelab 

[Gordon]

good luck!  still rocking xp pro here 

oh and I think there is a way to run in xp and use wavelab.  check out the 7 threads.

[Just Taper Mark from NC]

alright gordon,I got my vaio so don't run out on me now! 

[boojum]

IIRC the problems with FireWire and USB shorting/failure in the 7nn series resulted from hot plugging and unplugging the boxes.  I now plug my box in and then turn it on.  This is the safest way.  And use the "eject" function of your MS system when done and then turn the 7nn off and unplug it.  These are extra steps but IIRC SD recommends this.  It is the safest way.

[Just Taper Mark from NC]

well everything worked flawless this weekend after one minor glitch which was my fault and a quick fix after a couple hours sleep but when I got the actuall torrent set up and tried to start my seed it wouldn't go because the hotel had ports blocked.soo...

I'm sure some of you have encountered this before so what do you do?

[Gordon]

no matter what at any hotel anywhere you will show up as "firewalled"  ie ports blocked.  this generally doesn't matter and you can still upload.  as you found out this isn't always the case.

couple things.  never use the "bit torrent port" 6881 or whatever.  use something random over 30k (at home as well).

if there is a ethernet connection use it instead of wireless.

check if you can upload before hand.  I find a torrent on etree with a roughly even number of seeders and leechers.  jump on for a few mins to see if you are able to upload.  remember at the hotel your ports are always "blocked" but it shouldn't matter most of the time.  if you are able to upload on a regular torrent you should have no issues seeding one.

NEVER ask the hotel about blocked ports or let them know what you are doing.  they don't like you taking all the bandwidth


so moral of the story is 99% of times uploading from the hotel goes off without a hitch even though you are "firewalled".  1% of the time you can't.  better luck next time!

[Just Taper Mark from NC]

w3rd

as soon as I hit the driveway it was 2 clicks and the 1st one was up before I had the front door open,the 2nd one took a bit longer because I had to go see what the bathroom had been up to while I was gone 

[fleish]

If you have the option in your torrent client, don't statically set the port at all. Try to use NAT-PMP or UPNP so your computer can try to negotiate with the router and get an unused port that the router will then NAT through for you so you don't appear "Firewalled".