Azureus / Bittorrent Info and Cell Phone Saga
I finally got around to looking into how to get Bittorrent trackers to work better with Azureus. I found these two links the most helpful:
One of the main points is that ports 6881-6999 are now considered to be blacklisted. I know this is old news, but since I hadn’t looked into it in a while, I thought I would post it here for those that did not know. Using ports between 49152 – 65535 is now recommended. You only need to put one port in your configuration as opposed to the range before. Apparently this is because some ISP’s and sites are now blacklisting these ports because they were commonly used to send traffic. Azureus goes as far as to say that you should change the port you have set up every once in a while so that your ISP doesn’t block the one you had previously chosen.
Nonetheless, things could be better speed wise considering I have a 5mb line and can generally pulls files in at over 600 kb/s when not restricted by something other than my ISP. I am going to continue to work on trying to get better speeds. It was somewhat refreshing to see many of my torrents actually finish downloading this weekend and I had no issues with my entire network crapping out as I had before so it appears I am closer to a proper solution.
Cell phone saga… I have the Motorola V551 which overall is a great phone with great features but I am finding it is losing its connection too often. I will be talking to someone and then suddenly, while they can still hear me, I cannot hear them. I have an extended warranty on it which helps, however; the last time I took it into an outlet, I was told I could get a software upgrade done on it but it would cost me $40 or so because I just happen to be at a different outlet from where I had purchased which I thought was rather shite. Of course, the phone may need to be replaced which is all well and good as that may result in either a perfectly working phone or possibly an upgrade, but this will mean I will have to add most of any configuration back in manually as I have stored most of it on the phone itself as opposed to the SIM card due to the SIM being very limited in what it can do. I read about some other people complaining about the same thing in terms of losing the connection as well. It seems the firmware upgrade worked for them and otherwise the phone was replaced. It would be nice if Motorola found a way to allow users to do this instead of inconveniencing them by requiring them to take the phone in.