Bittorrent question

[episodic]

I'm using bittorrent for the first time. I have the offical client. I was downloading Open Office 1.1.4 using it, and I placed myself on the dmz zone of my router.

I was downloading about 70k a sec, uploading about 10 (I'm on a slow dsl connection). . .

I get this from my software firewall:

Someone from borft.student.utwente.nl [130.89.163.15], port 33673 wants to connect to port 55207 owned by 'BTDOWNLOADGUI.EXE' on your computer


I denied this request. Is this normal? Why would someone want to connect to port 55207?

I got more warnings than this one. . .

 

[cerebusPu]

its okay. bittorrent is about sharing and uploading ya know?

 

[episodic]

Ok, what got me is all of the FAQ's say that you must open 6881-6889 - it never said anything about 55207.

 

[Injury]

As long as you are still downloading it, I wouldn't worry about it.

BTW, Wrong forum. What's with all the Software posts on OT the past couple of days? GEEZ.

 

[Kalvin00]

They probably had their program set to port 50000-60000, for example, and their program was trying to connect to you.

 

[ActuaryTm]

Originally posted by: episodic
Ok, what got me is all of the FAQ's say that you must open 6881-6889.

Torrent traffic is not limited to those ports, of course. One can configure most clients to utilize nearly any port.

 

[episodic]

Hmm ok - I accepted it then I got a flood of other people wanting to connect. I went ahead and made a rule to allow it.

Quick question what does the Super Seeder and Seeder option do on the front of the client?