silverhawk...is ur trick working still?

it doesn't work for me here in penang

i can connect to foreign peers , but cannot download from them
all my traffic is with local peers

again, question..

If i get tracker status = "offline", what does this mean?My downloading icon is red color (utorrent) and those with status "working" are in blue icon.. I still can download tho~

in utorrent, "offline" (timed out), which means no response from server after a period of times (base on your TCP timeout value).
Your downloading icon is RED, if none of the Tracker in your list is working.
else, you get BLUE icon.

As i asked you before, can you connect to the tracker? This isn't going to help you in your peer connections or speed.

I'm having the same problem atm, trying to find a way around it.

An offline tracker means the tracker is down. Most modern BT clients have "peer exchange" or "DHT" which allows you to download without the tracker. To put it simply, if you've connected to the tracker before, your client keeps a list of seeds/peers which it can use if the tracker goes down.

So, it's actually not a problem to get red icon,right? THanks alot~ I guess i'll just let it be..or perhaps shut down utorrent n open it again for a few times until i get the blue icon~~


Ahh,that's why i still can download without even getting my tracker status to "working"...
It's amazing that u said u use basic knowledge but yet u helped a bunch of ppl here!! It definitely helps u a lot by reading and researching here n there!! Way to go,man!!

i thing they working on sumthing again.. my bt client lost connection to any peers suddenly.. even local peers.. on 60.52.xx.xx.. anyone got the same prob?..

Could you please help a bit with the Proxomitron settings that need to be tweaked to get that effect? Step-by-step please, if possible.

Thanks

This post has been edited by the65thsquare: Jan 20 2007, 01:35 AM

About Port 8080, besides changing that in the BT client, do I need to set it in the firewall as well or it's two unrelated things?

can give a brief tutorial on how to use it and what setting need to tweak?
tried the PAW but somehow can't manage to get it running. maybe this one can be used with my system.

1) after download Proxomitron, extract and run proxomitron.exe(the green icon).. If any pop-up come out from your firewall just allow it..
2) In Proxomitron main window, "Edit Filter" section, click "Headers", then a "HTTP Header Filters" window will come out..
3) In "HTTP Header Filters" window, scroll down and you will find there is 6 user-agent option.. Choose any one of them by ticking at "OUT" section and then click "Apply", "Ok"..
4) Configure your BT client to use this proxy..
5) Launch Proxomitron log windows and then start your torrent task to see if it works..

Proxomitron was using port 8080 on default so if u're behind a router, forward port 8080..

This post has been edited by newbieockids: Jan 20 2007, 02:06 AM

Default configuration for most firewalls would allow port 8080. You should check it though.

thanks.
will try it when the sun come out. now head see stars.

btw, do we still need to port forward port 8080?
since it's the http port, i thought the modem/router will allow it to get through.

This post has been edited by xxboxx: Jan 20 2007, 04:52 AM

Please, just follow the instructions, and you'll be fine.

You don't need to forward anything, you're connecting to yourself anyway. Localhost means your computer itself.

This post has been edited by blindbox: Jan 20 2007, 08:39 AM

thanks but it doesn`t work with me last night.... so i stop using it but still open my client.... this morning i saw 2 files finished.. don`t know the exact speed but it started 0.1kb last night .... when i look at peers nearly 90% from malaysia..... thanks for seeding and now its my turn to seed.....

i'm getting this message:
"Failure: Please use a proper client."

I'm using PAW just as you mentioned it.

Tracker status: WORKING!!!

It works!! Thank you, silverhawk! YOU'RE MY LIFESAVER!!

Damnit.... TMNet lied to me. I called them on hotline two days ago and this support guy Zul told me he experiences the same problem at home but assures me that TMNet does not block p2p traffic... idiotic bugger.

YiQi, how did you confirm that TM-net blocks bittorents based on user agents? Some of Malaysian friends on p2p website are still able connect to tracker and do not experience this problem. Any explanation here?

TMNutz is blocking mine here (in my area), BUT in certain areas it isn't blocked. Its been like that since last week. That's confirmed!

Well, according to my test in this thread: http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/399220

If you have Firefox, install the User-Agent Switcher Add-On, then add a few agents, e.g. uTorrent, BitTorrent, etc... then browse some Tracker URLs, you will get 'Connection reset by peer' while switch to those 'blacklist' UA. If switch back to normal UA, you will see the normal response. Interesting huh!

Some people don't have such problem could be various reasons:
1. They are using P2P Clients that which is not in the blacklist yet or the client didn't show its real identification in User-Agent.
2. The area where they are is not throttled by this method, yet (maybe).
Just like some people's BT is working well but some are not.

Sometimes, also wondering, "Is TMNut really throttle our P2P? Could it be the International Gateway installed by other countries which we connect to?" This is the difficult part that no one can tell.

Note: User-Agent throttling is only affect the HTTP connection, not Peer-2-Peer BT protocol (or others protocol).


This post has been edited by YiQi: Jan 20 2007, 11:41 AM