B-Torrents

I'm having some major headaches setting up a BT download for Retro Core. I can download my self but I can't seed. Keep getting Port XXXXX is blacklisted. I know what this means but is there an easy way around it?

Yakumo

 

It sounds to me like your ip adres or ip group is being blocked by a firewall or is on an ISP blacklist.

Seeding a torrent is usually quite easy, just take a look at suprnova.org they have a torrent seeding bit.

 

what about forwarding a port in the router ?

search for portforwadring on google it can help.

but it is only a suggestion

 

Yakumo:
Who's your provider, and what's your setup? A lot of providers, even in Japan, will have ports blocked... a lot of times just on your modem. To get around them, you'll need to use the interface... fairly self explanatory if they give you permission to do so.

I was part of Metallic -- first DSL provider in Japan. For the first year, they didn't give people the passwords to their modems b/c they didn't have the time to fix them in the case they fucked them up.

The only provider I know out of the box in japan that does none of that is Usen. 100Mb/10Mb, 5 WAN IPs... no protection at all.

 

You guys are so lucky. I'm waiting my ass off to get FIOS and that will only be 30/5 mbit.

 

Pah! The best most of the UK can get is 2mb/512k!!!

Kyuusaku, if you're still here there's a post for you in general

 

i have 3/256 , but i heard that soon verizon or some telephone company is gonna give 30/10mb , thats enuff for me

 

And I have 256k/256k
Oh well

 

BTW, Verizon's FIOS is fiber... Internet in America can be as fast as you like it, but after 5M/256K, you'll start paying $100+/month. Once you get to a 10M tier, you're going to be paying $400/month. Hell, 768/768K SDSL would be $100+ :\

 

I'm with OCN and their 12mbps ADSL connection :smt009 I want Hikari Fiber 100mbps :angry :-D I heard that the 1gig line is due very soon.

Yakumo

 

I'm just happy with my 12/2 mbit connection, mostly because it's free :-D

 

10mbit to my room here at uni (proxy/firewalled to hell and back, naturally), but back in Wales my folks still aren't able to get broadband. They're stuck on ISDN for the next year or two. It sucks.

 

hmm i would be happy to seed this when/if i get the torrent file because my t3 line wants to help

 

stuck on ISDN here, pathetic when you find out that japan's up to 100mbit...

Although dec 1st the exchange is meant to be upgraded - go up from 64k to 512k - still rather poor, but hey, anythigns better than now.

 

Counts for nothing if you can't use the fantastic bittorrent.

 

Kyuusaku: Is that fiber all the way to the users house? If so, why the hell use it if it's only a few megabits? The materials are far more expensive than standard cable/DSL crap, and can still go pretty quick. My cable offered 30Mb/10Mb in Japan. Then, of course, the Hikari Fiber 100Mb/10Mb with 5 WAN IPs was just fantastic.... for shame nobody can ever keep up with you.

I'll be getting Road Runner when I get a permanent apartment. They're supposed 3MB and I have no clue what the upload is.

Question for you guys in the states that follow this... how come the states basically made DSL, then sat on it without any speed increases for 7 or 8 years? Japan was the LAST of the economically sound countries to get it (very interesting story on how it eventually came to be) and then surprassed everyone by a long shot within a year of having it.

 

Cuz they like overcharging us Gaijin. BTW, I have road runner, their upload is 128k, my download is like 300kilobytes/sec, thats.. 2-3mb i think. So your upload will be crappy, gaurenteed. The USA can easily go to 2megabytes/sec download easily but these companies like making money, and lots of it, so it wont change drastically anytime soon.

 

THink yourselves lucky. In the UK some companies still cap how much you can download a month and charge you more if you want to continue using thew service and the speed is crap. That's completely out of order in my book.

Yakumo

 

Here in holland we have plenty of adsl providers that say you have no download limit but after you download 10 gb or something you suddenly get a mail asking you to stop downloading or get you speed reduced to 56k :smt009

 

I'd like to be even overcharged at this point. Roadrunner / Time Warner Cable / Oceanic who offer cable tv in our building (fofice building) will not fucking call me back. I've left two messages saying I want their service.

I think I will learn to hate things about Hawaii for the exact opposite reasons I hated soem things in Japan. In Japan, nobody will think out of the box. It's by the book, and right now. Here, everyone thinks so far out of the box, they don't get any fucking work done. Lazy asses.