On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:20:56 -0500 "Aaron Griffin" <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
On 3/30/07, Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org> wrote:
Aaron Griffin schrieb:
I'm currently seeding all 6, though quite poorly - I need to open some more ports but my silly router doesn't accept ranges (one at a time is nasty).
Most torrent clients only need one port for all torrents (I think they use both udp and tcp). If you need one port for each, you should use another one.
I recall reading somewhere that bittorrent only uses tcp. I was also under the impression that using multiple ports within the bt range created faster uploads, but I may be wrong - I download these things, not upload, heh. This was actually the first time I ever used 'maketorrent' 8)
Since you can theoretically have 65536 connections open on a single port (though, more practically 1024), I don't know that the number of ports is the limiting factor. Jason