Hello,
I am using qbittorrent for torrenting and my ISP has refused to open up firewall because of fucking “security” reasons. however I can still seed the torrent how is that possible? I mean all the incoming connections should be blocked right? isn’t it how firewall works?
Stop using your ISPs router and they’re not going to have much control over it.
no they have firewall enabled on their side so even if I use my own router it won’t do much.
Who says the ISP isn’t blocking ports via a firewall?
I thought it was common practice for ISPs to block certain ports for residential connections?
It sounds like everything is working, so… whats the issue?
however I can still seed the torrent how is that possible?
Yes you can still seed as well as download. But you are limited and can only upload and download torrent data in swarms that contain peers that are themselves fully connectable (port forwarded).
So say you join a torrent swarm that only contains peers just like you (firewalled, no ports forwarded) then no one will transfer any torrent data with each other. Everyone is stuck waiting for a fully connectable (port forwarded) peer to join that swarm.
If the firewall just means no incoming connections, your computer can still reach out to the other side (if they open their port)
