From: Gary Britt 

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Thanks, I'll give ZipTorrent and emule both a try.

Gary

Geo wrote:
> "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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Thanks, I'll give ZipTorrent and emule both a try.

Gary

Geo wrote:

  "Gary Britt" <glbNOSPAM{at}gencogDOTcom.com>">mailto:glbNOSPAM{at}gencogDOTcom.com"><glbNOSPAM{at}gencogDOTcom.com>
wrote in message
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e$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/ipfilte
r_full.dat">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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