From: "Geo" 

"Gary Britt"  wrote in message
news:4556696e$1{at}w3.nls.net...

First off, use ZipTorrent instead of BitTorrent, it's Gui and much easier
to configure.

>   A.  Should one setup port forwarding in their router?
>
>   B.  Should one use a port range other than the default?

Yes, I would use ports 80-90 since it's pretty likely this will look like
http traffic if it uses 80 and it's less likely to be blocked.

> 2.  I've seen some paranoid types  wanting to try and avoid being
> tracked by the government or RIAA or MPAA recommend the use of a program
> like Peer Guardian 2 to block certain IP packets and connections that
> could be bad in these regards.

You could, or you could just join some private P2P group (usually a small
donation is required) and stay off the big public servers.

>   A.  Do you think someone should use Peer Guardian 2 or some other
> similar program with bittorrent?  How bad does this program affect
> overall performance of the computer and other uses of the internet by
> other programs?

This is why I like Emule, you just load a file when you boot it up and it
blocks everything in that file (IP list). The file I like is
http://headfucking.net/servermet/ipfilter_full.dat and loading and using
that is actually a built in function in emule so you don't need to run yet
another tsr type program.


>   B.  Why couldn't you just add the "bad" IP addresses to the Hosts
> file?

You could I guess but Microsoft is already bypassing hosts for their
websites. Personally I think the above list is a bit large for hosts (it's
about 10mb).

Geo.

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