Port 6881 being Blocked by my ISP

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zib@zib Posts 277 Registration date Tuesday September 25, 2007 Status Member Last seen July 24, 2013 - Aug 23, 2010 at 01:23 PM
jack4rall Posts 6428 Registration date Sunday June 6, 2010 Status Moderator Last seen July 16, 2020 - Aug 23, 2010 at 05:13 PM
Hello,

My ISP has Blocked this Port 6881 used in Utorrent ,now my download are not working i would like to know how can i make the Utorrent work on another port ? because am so curius to know how to set destination to another port, is there a way to change u torrent to use another port ?


Regards





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jack4rall Posts 6428 Registration date Sunday June 6, 2010 Status Moderator Last seen July 16, 2020
Aug 23, 2010 at 04:28 PM
Hello,

Try this 1.

First check your Firewall. May be its the firewall which is blocking it.

Click on "Options" ---> Preference ---> Network.

There you can find the option "Port used for incomming connections :"

Now enter the port number above 10000. Example: Enter port number as 45682

Good Luck.
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Ambucias Posts 47310 Registration date Monday February 1, 2010 Status Moderator Last seen February 15, 2023 11,164
Aug 23, 2010 at 04:31 PM
Hello,

Just out of curiosity, why would an ISP block a port? Thank you.
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jack4rall Posts 6428 Registration date Sunday June 6, 2010 Status Moderator Last seen July 16, 2020
Aug 23, 2010 at 04:54 PM
Hello Ambucias,
Even I was curious to find the reason about why the ISP blocks some ports. Well finally I just found in one article saying that there are few residential ISP's who block ports in their router to combat viruses and spam and we can't tell which port is not being blocked.
But I think its the firewall which is blocking it.
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Ambucias Posts 47310 Registration date Monday February 1, 2010 Status Moderator Last seen February 15, 2023 11,164
Aug 23, 2010 at 04:59 PM
Thanks Jack

In effect Torrents are a frequent transmitting source. A good ISP would use SSL.
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jack4rall Posts 6428 Registration date Sunday June 6, 2010 Status Moderator Last seen July 16, 2020
Aug 23, 2010 at 05:13 PM
Yes my friend, you are right. If they are good enough they should use SSL, but they are some
ISP who are sticking with the old ones. Don't know why they are not interested to provide
security to the users.
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