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[andrew_jorgensen]

Got it.

Marking time at 12:33 am.

Also, one seed and 185 leeches on the torrent of tonight's Battlestar Galactica. It is, I suppose, unlikely that I'll finish reading the novel before I'm done downloading the show.

(Update: BSG finished in 4 hours, 36 minutes. After 5:48 I'm on page 460.)

Comments

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

Where are you downloading BSG from??

[dherblay.livejournal.com]

mininova.org

It's currently reading at 28 seeds and 1874 peers; I've been downloading for an hour and twenty-three minutes and I'm sixteen percent done.

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

Eh, usually takes me eight hours at best for Alias, or whatever I'm downloading.

[dherblay.livejournal.com]

Wow. I think you need to check your firewall or increase your upload speed or something.

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

I have no idea how to increase my upload speed, and I don't have a firewall.

[dherblay.livejournal.com]

Yahoo/SBC gave you a router/modem, right? That probably has a firewall on it.

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

Is that what that weird machine is that goes between the phone jack and the computer? So what do I do with it?

[dherblay.livejournal.com]

What type is it?

If it's the type they gave me (the 2Wire), which it probably isn't because mine is wireless, you type "homeportal" into your browser's address bar and configure the firewall from there.

Otherwise, you Google BitTorrent FAQs until you find a technique that looks like it will work.

And, frankly, I don't know what to do on a Mac anyway.

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

I typed "homeportal" into th ecomputer and it's showing me info about my modem, the broadband link, the home network, the firewall.

I asked for firewall info. It's showing me the settings, but I'm not sure how to interpret them.

[dherblay.livejournal.com]

What I did, and I'm not sure this made any difference, was click on "Firewall Settings," then switch from "Maximum protection" to "Allow individual application(s)." I then added a "new user-defined application," which I named Azureus, though you don't use Azureus as your BitTorrent client. I then assigned it ports 6881-6891, which are the ports through which Azureus receives data requests on Wintel machines.

Since you're on a Mac, though, and since Macs are the wonderfully invulnerable machines unsullied by the evils of malware that they are, try running your router in DMZplus mode the next time you're downloading a torrent.

This page (http://azureus.aelitis.com/wiki/index.php/PortForwarding) contains information on configuring the Mac OS X built-in firewall for use with BitTorrent, though I don't know if it's valid for all BitTorrent clients or just Azureus.

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

Isn't the DMZplus mode the mode that lets *anything* through!?

Yikes.

Thanks for the link.

I have a BitTorrent client for the Mac that's just called "BitTorrent".

[dherblay.livejournal.com]

I thought Macintosh users laughed in the face of spyware.

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

Well, maybe I've been protected from it all this time by this nifty firewall and didn't know it. Someone could have built an Ev0l Mac Bristow!

[dherblay.livejournal.com]

This site (http://www.portforward.com/routers.htm) has pretty much everything you'd need, both instructions for every router known to humankind, and a listing of the requisite ports for each BitTorrent client.

[buffyannotater.livejournal.com]

I should have it on my doorstep in the morning.

Although, if Amazon doesn't ship it tomorrow, it'll be free, so, with all the other reading I have now anyway, I won't be devestated if it's late. ;)

[dherblay.livejournal.com]

But Roooooooooobbbbbbbb, it's the BEST BOOK EVER.

Oh, wait, so's all the other reading.