[OT] Of Torrents & Transfers & Firewalls

[amalventano at sc.rr.com (Allyn)]

> Except in my case it never began uploading anything.

realize that you may have been the only one downloading (me and foxx are 
seeding it, and there would be no reason for you to send parts of it to us - 
we have it all already).

> 4.) During the download I turned off the s/w firewall.

should have zero impact - so long as you have allowed the torrent program 
access to the net within the software firewall program.

> 5.) I think it was the IP translation on my end that masked my system from 
> becoming a upload site. (Pure, uncollaborated speculation on my part.)

possible. you need to see which port or port range your client is using, and 
manually forward that port to your computer on the nat box. heres a decent 
page on doing this:
http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=493
hth
Al


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> btw- Thx for the file in the 1st place, if it matters much I can research 
> more about the whys and wherefores but my need for bittorrent was just 
> satisfied and won't really be using it to get movies, etc.
>
> (Did I say Thank You yet?)
>
>
> TBerk
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