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ledclone

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Getting my settings right
« on: February 03, 2006, 02:43:11 PM »

Gave up on edonkey as speeds were being throttled. Started with aMule. After a lot of mucking about I am getting downloads (but not very fast). I have tried different servers and different ports, but not really making a lot of difference (TCP at 4671 and UDP at 4672).

Anyone have any ideas the best ports I should go too - I suspect my ISP (through my network) is throttling P2P.
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Re: Getting my settings right
« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2006, 02:47:18 PM »

Sorry, probably nothing you can do about this, since most throttling solutions use packet inspection. Changing the ports doesn't help.

The only thing you can try is to use some "less well known" ports like 1677 or the MS-SQL one (kinda forget which one that is, 4523 maybe?) But most likely changing ISP is your only option here.

What you can try is setting your new connections / 5 second to a very low value, like 1-2, and your max connections to <100. This might keep the throttling to a minimun, but only if your ISP uses TCP-thread dropping software which is triggered by many (incoming) connections. Obviously your downloads will also be impeded by this.
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Re: Getting my settings right
« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2006, 04:57:10 PM »

I am connecting via a network so not a lot I can do about this. This also happened on my broadband supplier - before xmas I had no trouble with them at all
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