On Thursday 13 Nov 2008, manish mallan wrote:

Hi, I have a BSNL internet connection. When i am using azureus, after some time, my download stops, it again starts & does this couple of

In torrent, peers will come and go so expect downloads to peak and drop (esp. if the peers you were downloading from are gone).

times. Every time, firestarter indicates a blocked connection. If i check the firestarter for blocked connections, i see this (not in any order): Port Source Protocol Service 57084 192.168.1.1 ICMP Unknown 4024 192.168.1.1 ICMP Unknown 62159 192.168.1.1 ICMP Unknown

The above has nothing to do with bitorrent, they are tcp connections to ports 6881-6889.

I tried to closely monitor this thing, as far i can tell, when ever this happens, download speed goes to 0 & then again increases. But some times i have to reset the modem.

You should not have to reset the modem and you should exercise some patience.

To get the max. out of P2P file sharing like bitorrent, you *need* to contribute back to the pool i.e. let other torrent clients connect to your system and pick up the chunks that are complete.

Have you opened up your firewall to allow incoming connections and port forward those connections (if needed)?

Read more about bit torrent, http://compnetworking.about.com/od/bittorrent/qt/bittorrentports.htm

Also Google search "bittorrent ports" for a list of other informative articles.