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SuperCow · 06-12-2003, 20:13

I'm a BitTorrent user (BitTorrent is a P2P program for those who don't know what it is). In the last few days my BitTorrent download speed has gone down dramatically (I'm on the 600k package). After a bit of investigation I discovered the abysmall download speed was due to incoming connections from peers being refused (because somehow ports 6881 to 6889 were blocked). I initially thought I had misconfigured my software Firewall ZoneAlarm but it turns out the problem still exists even when ZoneAlarm is not running.
As I used to be able to accept incoming peer connections I can only deduct NTL has recently decided to block ports 6881 to 6889 to prevent users from achieving proper download speed with BitTorrent.

Has anyone else noticed this problem? Can anyone confirm those ports are indeed blocked by NTL, and can we ever expect these to be unblocked?

06-12-2003, 20:13	#1
SuperCow Inactive Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Hemel Hempstead Posts: 18	NTL blocking BitTorrent ports? (6881 to 6889) I'm a BitTorrent user (BitTorrent is a P2P program for those who don't know what it is). In the last few days my BitTorrent download speed has gone down dramatically (I'm on the 600k package). After a bit of investigation I discovered the abysmall download speed was due to incoming connections from peers being refused (because somehow ports 6881 to 6889 were blocked). I initially thought I had misconfigured my software Firewall ZoneAlarm but it turns out the problem still exists even when ZoneAlarm is not running. As I used to be able to accept incoming peer connections I can only deduct NTL has recently decided to block ports 6881 to 6889 to prevent users from achieving proper download speed with BitTorrent. Has anyone else noticed this problem? Can anyone confirm those ports are indeed blocked by NTL, and can we ever expect these to be unblocked?