Checking your ISP's ports

[Marmite the Dog]

I heard that the ISPs in Thailand like to block or throttle ports to save on bandwidth. Is there anyway I can find out which ports are restricted (with MaxNet) so I can tell uTorrent to use an unrestricted one?

A nice little utility would be splendid.

[melvbot]

Quite a few of these around

Glasnost: Test if your ISP is manipulating BitTorrent traffic

[Thetyim]

so I can tell uTorrent to use an unrestricted one

Waste of time as far as I can tell.
TOT seems to open and close ports all the time.
I have to check every hour if my allocated port is still open

[Muadib]

I use a program called 'NetInfo' for doing port scanning to see what services are available and what ports are blocked on an IP address... It's free download from the net and does a pretty good job...

[baldrick]

grc.com for inbound checking

use 500 , 1173 , 1194 or something they expect to see encrypted traffic on ( default VPN ports )
Cisco VPN ports

[Thetyim]

^
Thanks, 1194 seems to be working

[baldrick]

1194 is the default port for openVPN servers

[Marmite the Dog]

I also noticed that I can't DL Top Gear either from my account at UK Nova or from Pirate Bay.

Other files are DLing OK, but TG & another popular programme will not even start.

WTF?

[melvbot]

I also noticed that I can't DL Top Gear either from my account at UK Nova or from Pirate Bay.

Other files are DLing OK, but TG & another popular programme will not even start.

WTF?

Tried IP Torrents?

[Marmite the Dog]

Tried IP Torrents?

Yes. That's where I'm trying to get Sunday's True Blood from.

[Gallowspole]

Try EZTV - TV Torrents Online for True Blood

[Marmite the Dog]

^ Thanks, but the point is that I shouldn't have to. There's loads of seeders for these downloads and they're on private trackers already.

I have just forwarded my ports using Maxnet's nameservers. Maybe I should try opendns instead?

Also, I have forwarded that 1194 port, but it's still blocked. I'll try the other ports or just turn the fucking modem's firewall off completely.

[Marmite the Dog]

Well, the port checker with uTorrent says my port is still closed. I have disabled the router's firewall and XP's. I am using OpenDNS's nameservers and have the port forwarded.

What a crock of shit this all is. Saying that, my dns lookup is much quicker.

[Thetyim]

Have you enabled UPnP on your modem ?

[Marmite the Dog]

Have you enabled UPnP on your modem ?

Yes. I have now, but if the port is forwarded, it shouldn't be necessary, right?

[Norton]

^Hope you did a system restore point before you buggered up your PC.

[Marmite the Dog]

The internet is running better, but uTorrent is just as shit, so bugger off.

[Thetyim]

Yes. I have now, but if the port is forwarded, it shouldn't be necessary, right?

Correct
Also if UPnP is enabled then you don't have to forward the port so it's a belt a braces suggestion.

[Norton]

Shit it is. I'm getting a download speed of about 50 kbytes/sec on my Isaan 3G thingy.

[baldrick]

just got war inc at 100K , my max - 3hrs.

[Marmite the Dog]

Just wondering is a restart would help any of this?

[Marmite the Dog]

Shit!

I just hit a random port number which took it away from the forwarded port and used the PnP feature.

Gone from 20kb/s to over 500 and Top Gear has started. Fekkin' computers...

[Thetyim]

^
Sounds like we have the same problem

[Gerbil]

Make sure you have encryption turned on. That's always solved it for me.

[Thetyim]

I got encryption & DHT enabled