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| Author: | Fogmeister [ Sun Jul 04, 2010 10:43 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Port blocking |
OK, I've got annoyed with not being able to access any web whilst the rest of the house has P2P running etc... If I block all ports from 1025 to 65534 are there any obvious ones that I'll need to open in order for the web to work in general? |
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| Author: | JJW009 [ Sun Jul 04, 2010 11:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Port blocking |
Most games, VoIP and instant messenger apps use ports in that range. For example, MSN uses TCP/UDP 1025 - 65535 for various things. The best solution for file sharing is a router which supports some kind of bandwidth management. A lot of different routers have various options. Incidentally, I use ports 443, 80 and 8080 for bittorrent. It helps other people to get around their firewalls to improve my download speeds. |
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| Author: | Nick [ Sun Jul 04, 2010 11:54 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Port blocking |
What router do you have? As JJ says a lot of routers have software that mean you can throttle certain IP/MAC addresses and/or protocols and/or ports to certain speeds. Even if your router doesn't support this sort of stuff out of the box, software like DD-WRT/Tomato gives you those features and cab run on nearly all routers. |
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