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Old 2019-01-27, 01:43 PM
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Firewall help, please

Hi, all. Sorry to be asking a question so soon after getting here, but I got a little carried away, downloaded a handful of shows, and then noticed that I'm firewalled and not as good a citizen as I could be.

I've looked at the FAQ (several times) but don't feel any closer to figuring this out. In one place it refers to ports 6881-6889, but when I checked the "can you see me thing" it was looking at 80. My client (uTorrent Web) doesn't give me an "Options" menu to check which ports it's using. Clicking on the little cogwheel on uTorrent takes me to page that'd let me change where the downloaded files go, and it mentions something about speeds, but there's no port information, and I don't see a way to find more settings.

Is downloading some utilities manager really the best way to get this done? The free one from portforward dot com, I guess?

If I open more ports (and which ones?) does that open my computer to more annoying/malicious traffic?

Thanks in advance
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