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11-07-2004, 11:35 PM
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Registered: Oct 2004
Location: Sac, Calif
Distribution: Slackware 10.0
Posts: 123
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How do you get bittorrent to work??? *Wont Connect to Torrent*
Well i got bittorrent program to work, but when i try to connect to a torrent file it stays red the whole time, says that i'm not connected to any peer while downloading, it has that for all three of the different downloads that i'm trying to connect to. thanks for any help to which i could solve my problem 
Last edited by gbdavidx; 11-08-2004 at 01:11 AM.
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11-08-2004, 12:26 AM
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Registered: Oct 2004
Location: Sac, Calif
Distribution: Slackware 10.0
Posts: 123
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sweet thanks, that all worked |
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11-08-2004, 12:53 AM
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Registered: Oct 2004
Location: Sac, Calif
Distribution: Slackware 10.0
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i'm at www.bittornado.com/ and my status light is yellow that says my server port is being blocked... how do i fix this? i have ports 6681-6889 open |
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11-08-2004, 06:51 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Feb 2003
Location: UK
Distribution: Slackware/Gentoo
Posts: 19
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Azureus is great because of it multiplatform java base - i like it because you can specify which files in the torrent you can donwload - however seemed quite slow on a celeron 533 with 512RAM - Go suprnova it!
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11-08-2004, 01:26 PM
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Member
Registered: Oct 2004
Location: Sac, Calif
Distribution: Slackware 10.0
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um how is that suppose to help? you just stated your opinion...
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11-15-2004, 04:06 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Feb 2003
Location: UK
Distribution: Slackware/Gentoo
Posts: 19
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sorry it was my opinion not a fix your right, but i thought you'd fixed it?
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11-15-2004, 09:40 PM
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Member
Registered: Oct 2004
Location: Sac, Calif
Distribution: Slackware 10.0
Posts: 123
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i can open azuerus up, but it wont connect to any peers... is there something i have to configure on linux so i can download from bittorrent
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11-15-2004, 09:55 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: May 2004
Location: Australia
Distribution: Gentoo
Posts: 3,545
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Are you behind a router/firewall? You need to forward certain ports for bittorrent to work.
And while we're on it, I reckon Qtorrent is a great client because it's just so basic. Who needs features when what you have does it's job and well? |
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11-15-2004, 09:56 PM
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Registered: Oct 2004
Location: Sac, Calif
Distribution: Slackware 10.0
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Quote:
Originally posted by gbdavidx
i have ports 6681-6889 open
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i actually have 6881-6889 open, are those the ports your talking about?
Last edited by gbdavidx; 11-15-2004 at 09:57 PM.
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11-15-2004, 10:02 PM
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Registered: Jan 2004
Location: USA
Distribution: macOS, OpenBSD
Posts: 669
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You need to have tcp and udp open, in other words inbound as well as outbound. If you use mandrake, just open up the firewall with drakfirewall.
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11-15-2004, 10:08 PM
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Member
Registered: Oct 2004
Location: Sac, Calif
Distribution: Slackware 10.0
Posts: 123
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i use slackware 10.0 with kde 3.2
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01-04-2007, 06:24 PM
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Member
Registered: Jun 2005
Distribution: Mandriva LE 2005
Posts: 71
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Same problem with Frostwire
I'm running PCLinux and I'm wondering if it's a firewall issue where I can't connect to either of these prgromas.
Both say Starting connection/starting up... But they just sit there.
I went under security in the control panel and it is set to allow everything.
What's up??
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