dkorchok wrote:Now Gentlemen, I phrased my last post as judicially as I could, because I know that many of you are volunteering your time and knowledge to this forum. But I can scarcely contain my frustration with this process. I had always thought the purpose of technology was to open up information to people, not to make it so esoteric that only the initiated can use it. I must say my feeling is that if any piece of technology cannot be operated intuitively, then the designers have failed. There is an assumption, even in the articles that I was referred to that, of course, everyone knows where a port should be forwarded to and everyone knows what values they want for various addresses, subnet masks and gateways. Well, everyone doesn't.
Don't separate the people from the technology, make the technology come to the people.
Port forwarding is beyond this software (meaning you might have to change settings in your router/modem). It doesnt matter how good /bad deluge is, torrent always needs atleast one port to be open to fully function like it should. If this in an problem for you maybe should try some other way to p2p.
Port forwarding isnt complicated and the web is full of good guides. If you cant find them yourselve or dont understand them then maybe this isnt for you. Or you can try asking for help in a forum like this BUT keep in mind that there are tons of different kinds of users. That means we dont know what kind of computer you are using, we dont know what OS you are using, we dont what kind of connection you have etc. etc. Heres some tips to get started:
1). Find out what your ip address is on the windows-machine. You can see this by opening start-menu and picking run. There you write cmd and after that ipconfig. You need this when doing port forwarding so that the device knows where to forward those packets.
2). Find out what kind of firewall(s) you have and how to do port forwarding on them. Also find out how to do port-forwarding on your modem/router. Just google with "my-device/my-firwall port forwarind"
3). Change the port in deluge (and in port forward) something other than the default port. For example 4005 or even 10002 or something like that.
4). Ask for an college/friend/relative etc. for help. P2P is so common that majority of young people knows how to do port forwaring and how to use torrent-clients =)
So what I am trying to say here is that it if you cant read it doesnt matter how simply the book is written. Same goes for anything in life. Even the most sophisticated car is hard to drive for someone who has never drove before.
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