The enchanted broomstick Posted May 4, 2005 Report Share Posted May 4, 2005 (edited) im trying to use Bit Comet as has been talked about on here before i think and all i keep getting is it saying "connecting" for hours!! Now i believe its the firewall settings on the network server, we are on a wireless connection internal network connection of 106mbps and a internet connection of 10mbps, i heard of a thing called HTTP tunnel, i dont really know much about it but the general jist of it is that it runs along the same port as the web browser ? if im wrong please correct me. I have tried working with things like Ares, BearShare etc. but get get the same problem so i thought i would go for this torrents thing. Basically i wanna be able to download music from work because of the great connection we have and unlimited bandwidth, along with the amount of time im here per day ;) Any recommendations on either programs or ways around this would be absolutely gorgeous and you can have a big fat KISS for it (Y) cheers, stu :lol: Edited May 4, 2005 by The enchanted broomstick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smo™ Posted May 5, 2005 Report Share Posted May 5, 2005 Do you have any idea what firewall you guys have? It may be blocking port 80 (HTTP). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
24seven Posted May 5, 2005 Report Share Posted May 5, 2005 Do you have any idea what firewall you guys have? It may be blocking port 80 (HTTP). ← The internet wouldn’t work if port 80 was blocked on the firewall. Have you asked if it’s ok to use bit-torrent to download music on your works connection? I don’t know where you work, but it’s just a guess that they wont be too happy about some one doing illegal things with there internet connection. Any sort of tunnelling is pointless, as it needs a machine for you to tunnel through, which means your connection will be limited to the speed of that machines connection. So you might as well not bother and just leave the torrents downloading on that machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nb88 Posted May 5, 2005 Report Share Posted May 5, 2005 Torrent programs dont usually use port 80 though? When i use Azureus i have 6881 forwarded on my router. Try going into settings and see which port its using. Noz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The enchanted broomstick Posted May 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2005 we have the novell security on our network i know that much. First i tried it on "no proxy" setting that dont work then i tried the HTTP1.1 as the proxy using my server address and the port as 8080 but that dont work either. Im running out of ideas. :-" Stu :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nb88 Posted May 5, 2005 Report Share Posted May 5, 2005 we have the novell security on our network i know that much. First i tried it on "no proxy" setting that dont work then i tried the HTTP1.1 as the proxy using my server address and the port as 8080 but that dont work either. Im running out of ideas. :-" Stu :P ← Well if theyve blocked port 8080 on the network (which they might to stop p2p programs), then that might be the problem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The enchanted broomstick Posted May 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2005 but my Internet Explorer uses port 8080, surely if this was blocked off then i wouldnt be able to view any webpages? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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