Problem Downloading with Bittorent

[hossein761]

Hi everyone,
I have a problem. My ISP has blocked everyports related to P2P connections. Therefore, I can not download anything with Bittorrent,Limewire and any P2P program. I have heard that one can use some programs and settings to force the Bittorent program to use port 80 which is open.
I have searched the net, but could find what i wan't.
P.S. : I am using Windows Vista and have a Linksys wireless router.
Anybody knows anything??
Thanks

[mccoffee]

In the bittorent program itself you might be able to change the application to goto a lower range port then a higher one.

So if you see a port number higher than 65535 then make it a lower port number it should work. http://btfaq.com/serve/cache/25.html

[lamapper]

...a Linksys wireless router. Anybody knows anything?? Thanks

I have been working with DD-WRT to upgrade my Linksys Routers firmware in order to have access to/from the internet to my PC regardless of the wishes of my ISP. Seems the stock Linksys router firmware applies artificial limits that prevent you from doing some types of routing, logging and more.

FYI, Linksys is not the best router available for this, but its what I have so I use it until I can afford a better one. Check this list: (http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/What_is_DD-WRT%3F#Which_V24_build_do_I_flash_onto_my_Broadcom_router; Features of the different builds); to see what capabilities there are, I eventually want to move up to the Mega version :cool:, currently due to my linksys hardware I must run Micro. :(

To see if your router is DD-WRT compatible see if it is on this list: http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices; Supported Devices; and see if your router is among the ones listed.

If it is not, you might consider getting one that is DD-WRT compatible, you can take a $30 - $60 router and give it $600 worth of functionality. You want as much as you can get of the following: RAM; Flash RAM; CPU Speed; and a Mini Micro SD slots. While you can get 64-128; 16-32; 533 mhz; 2 slots respectively I only have 4MB; 2MB; 240 mhz; no slot :( but it works just fine for me. (I am still learning to configure mine, there is a learning curve with any new technology, new to me that is, DD-WRT has been available for many years now and is very stable. Just read about it as much as you can.)

Many ISPs are starting to do Deep Packet Inspection (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_packet_inspection; Deep Packet Inspection, see Subverting Deep Packet Inspection the Right Way at the bottom also) and when they come across a P2P application (i.e. bit torrent) they are doing a number of unfriendly things. Throttling traffic is the least of your worries, though this is happening too. One company got caught crafting / spoofing packets to tell your computer the communication was finished, therefore the bit torrent traffic just stops.

We can argue till the cows come home about whether they should or should not be doing this. The fact is they (ISPs) are doing this (anybody who says they aren't has another agenda so beware what they say http://www.inputoutput.io/?p=9; How to Subvert Deep Packet Inspection, the Right Way). Thankfully there are ways around it, but that requires us to learn and act.

Down the road your ability to do what you want will depend on your ability to encapsulate your traffic within an encrypted secure tunnel through their firewall so that you can do what you should be able to do without issue. It is going to get worse before it gets better. Good luck to us all!

DD-WRT will allow you to control your routing, shape your internet traffic and if you want, find another DNS provider, albeit it might be a little bit slower, other then your ISP if it is one of the many doing this. Since all the providers are banding together to attack social issues, you can figure that they all will start doing this eventually, unless enough of us vote with our feet and our dollars and switch providers to get away from it. Then, perhaps, they might be forced to change their ways. Personally I am waiting for a provider that will light fiber to me and give me 100MB / 100MB as they have had in Japan since 2000 for around $20 - $30 per month. The article I read about paying $53 / month for 1TB / 1TB, supposedly someone is offering this in Japan now, sounds great...I would buy it.

Without Government intervention, as they had in Japan, we will be stuck with $40 - $60 per month for 2 MB / 600 Kbps, yes it sucks. Of course they (US ISPs) are going to come along and offer 10MB / 10MB for hundreds of dollars; they will probably market the heck out of it as if its the second coming or something...but still will not give us what we should have had if they had not successfully fought (and won via lobbiest) the 1996 Telecommunications Act (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996; The Act was claimed to foster competition. Instead, it continued the historic industry consolidation begun by Reagan, whose actions reduced the number of major media companies from around 50 in 1983 to 10 in 1996 [1], reducing the 10 in 1996 to 6 in 2005)

As with all posts there are always those reading that will say it just isn't so...time to educate yourself:

http://text.dslreports.com/shownews/NY-Attorney-General-Investigating-Comcast-92153 - Good history on issue; NY Attorney General Investigating Comcast.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2269842,00.asp - Comcast Slams Critics, Denies Blocking BitTorrent (we now know that Comcast was lying, though they still deny it)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/10/AR2008071003327.html - Head FCC recommends punishing Comcast for blocking internet traffic.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/technology/view/kddi-to-launch-1gbps-fiber-optic-service-in-oct - KDDI to launch 1Gbps fiber-optic service in Oct; Saturday 27th September, 05:46 AM JST; KDDI; will launch 1 Gbps internet service to single family home and condo users in October, $5,985 yen/month ($56.50)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/28/AR2007082801990_pf.html - Blaine Harden; - In 2000, the Japanese government seized its advantage in wire. In sharp contrast to the Bush administration over the same time period. "Obviously, without the competition [forced by Government De Regulation], we would not have done all this at this pace," said Hideki Ohmichi, NTT's senior manager for public relations.