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Old 2006-06-26, 09:59 AM
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Re: Firewalled with no router?

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Originally Posted by TheMamba
Weird...
Actually, not really that weird. I've been having ISP problems at home. It will occassionally just drop the connection or it will get really, really slow. I tried connecting up to a torrent yesterday during one of the really, really slow periods and I got listed as firewalled. The tracker performs a connection test with your IP addy when you first connect. Since my connection was having problems, the test failed and I got listed as firewalled. I did NOT like seeing FIREWALLED listed under my name!
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