Bit Torrent Ports

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Bit Torrent Ports

Hi,

I am a new Mac user and have recently purchased a Powerbook G4. I would like to use Bit torrent more efficiently on my Mac.

I would be greatful to anyone who can guide me on how to allow access to Bit torrent and other applications to specific TCP ports?

Your help would be highly appreciated!

Thanks,
Aditya

PowerBook G4 - SuperDrive, Mac OS X (10.4.2)

Posted on Nov 14, 2005 11:09 AM

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Answer 1

Nov 14, 2005 1:14 PM in response to Aditya Bhatia

I would be greatful to anyone who can guide me on how
to allow access to Bit torrent and other applications
to specific TCP ports?

Are you behind a router ? If so, you must configure that device to do port forwarding on your Mac to ports 6881-6999.

To allow the bitTorrent ports through your firewall on OS X:
System Preferences -> Sharing -> firewall -> new -> other
Port Number -> 6881-6999
Port Name -> bittorrent
OK

This will allow access to the ports bittorrent uses.

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Answer 2

RockMar3

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Nov 26, 2005 11:51 AM in response to chairman rod

I did what you suggested to enable firewall. I'm having problems downloading Bittorrent and Torrent Matrix. The programs don't download completely and I get error messages saying "contains an application" or "can't expand file". I'm new to this and am using a PowerBook G4 w/Tiger 10.4 OS. Any suggestions would help. Thanks

PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.2)

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