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Originally Posted by Timewarp
I've managed to work out why I was getting slow speeds with BitTorrent: if the tracker is on port 80, NTL's transparant cache intercepts the HTTP request and connects to the tracker from the NTL proxy server.
When the tracker gets this request, it tries to open port 6881 on the proxy rather than on my PC, thus other BitTorrent users cannot connect back to my machine and I get a slow download.
Has anyone worked out how to get round this?  Apart from using Torrents with trackers on other ports, that is.
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Sorted it now - SHAD0W'S BT client lets you set your IP address so that the tracker won't use the NTL proxy. Get it from here:
http://www.shadow2k.org/downloads.php
Wonder why no-one has posted the answer to this before?? (on this forum or any other). People must have wondered why they weren't getting good speeds on BitTorrent/NTL before. Strange.