Blocked Ports

[Power Metal Dom]

I'm sure we have all run into these problems...

* some programs won't work: kazaa (a friend has told me), bit torrent (the same friend has told me), msn messenger webcam, yahoo webcam, WoW(a friend informs me), etc

* some websites: www.habbohotel.co.uk etc

My question is...how to make these work?

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[munchingfoo]

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[Brother Munro]

I assume you are on resnet. In which case you can do precisely nothing. Bit Torrent is a no-no as is a lot of other stuff, off the top of my head about the only open ports are email (21, 25) http and a few others. Nothing in the 6000 range (where Kazaa and Bit Torrent work) is open. I think video messaging works fine (my flatmate was using Skype though). If you really want I can do a port scan again.

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[munchingfoo]

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[orudge]

Yup. You can't do anything. At all. Not a thing.

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[Elron]

You can use Kazaa, Bittorrent and everything like that fine.

You just need to know how :p

And no, none of us here will tell u how, cos it's breaking the rules and wiresoc does not support that :p

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Quoting munchingfoo from 14:48, 4th Mar 2006
¬_¬ psst. You are misinformed ¬_¬

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[Kaydo.]

Rules aside, you really should not be using Kazaa anyway.

[orudge]

Indeed, a hideous piece of software it is, and there's more crap on the network than there is content. At least, last time I used it, which was a couple of years ago now...

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[Elron]

Quoting orudge from 14:49, 7th Mar 2006
Indeed, a hideous piece of software it is, and there's more crap on the network than there is content. At least, last time I used it, which was a couple of years ago now...

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200% Agreed

Bittorrent and News Groups FTW!!!

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[Malcolm]

I'm not so sure. I usually find something BitTorrent I really want, but chances are there's about 50 people leeching and nobody seeding any particular file you're after. IMHO it should be part of the BitTorrent protocol to seed as soon as you have the file, wouldn't this solve the problem?

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[Si]

Quoting Malcolm from 01:37, 8th Mar 2006
IMHO it should be part of the BitTorrent protocol to seed as soon as you have the file, wouldn't this solve the problem?

It is, although not everyone sticks to it. If you want to get good quality stuff quickly and are prepared to seed back what you take then you should join a private community. It's not too hard to find one with open signups.