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    leaving ports open and stuff

    To make bitcomet work better for downloads I opened a port on my router, allowing
    UDP and TCP traffic. This worked but I have noticed that even though bitcomet isnt
    open I keep getting IPs trying UDP connections. Why is this do you reckon?

    What should I do and is there anything to worry about?

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    Why not use a client such as Azureus to do it - uses uPNP to do all of that, no user intervention required?

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    I second the azureus motion

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    azureus isn't for the faint hearted, tends to eat RAM like its been funded by the guys at curcial.
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    Do you need to allow UDP connections for bit torrent? Its P2P so TCP should be enough or am I wrong.

    Your case sounds like the tracker is a little slow updating the fact you have closed the torrent. It may still be passing your ip to other clients a few minutes after you close Bitcomet.

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    Nc i had a feeling that was the reason.

    I use to use azureus but liked some of the features bitcomet had that az didnt at the time.

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    I use Azureus and the uPNP didn't work with my router - had to open the specified port manually
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    Quote Originally Posted by k0nigen
    I use Azureus and the uPNP didn't work with my router - had to open the specified port manually
    ABC works fine for me clean and simple. and you do only need TCP ports open not UDP


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    I wounder why people keep trying UDP traffic, I've not used torrents lately, as p2p speeds tend to anoy me too much.

    Is it possible they implemented their own PING function over UDP because so many block ICMP?
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