Torrent and wireless internet

Im using a wireless conection without security in my neighbourhood. I
have no idea who provides it, what kind of rooter it is, all I know is
that the connection is good and I never had any trouble with it. My
question is, how can I find wich port are open to use bit torrent
programs such as Utorrent or Emule. I was wondering if a Port Sniffer
could help me...
Thank you,
JP
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(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> Im using a wireless conection without security in my neighbourhood. I
> have no idea who provides it, what kind of rooter it is, all I know is
> that the connection is good and I never had any trouble with it. My
> question is, how can I find wich port are open to use bit torrent
> programs such as Utorrent or Emule. I was wondering if a Port Sniffer
> could help me...
> Thank you,
> JP
> (E-Mail Removed)
>
If you start a torrent with your neighbor's wireless, though he may not
know you are using it now, he doubtless will when his connection slows
to a crawl.

He might come looking for you ...

On 3 Feb 2006 15:43:42 -0800, in alt.internet.wireless ,
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>Im using a wireless conection without security in my neighbourhood. I
>have no idea who provides it, what kind of rooter it is, all I know is
>that the connection is good and I never had any trouble with it. My
>question is, how can I find wich port are open to use bit torrent
>programs such as Utorrent or Emule. I was wondering if a Port Sniffer
>could help me...

Before you go any further, consider whether you'd be happy with
someone using your internet connection like this.
Mark McIntyre
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In <(E-Mail Removed) .com> on 3 Feb 2006
15:43:42 -0800, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:

>Im using a wireless conection without security in my neighbourhood. I
>have no idea who provides it, what kind of rooter it is, all I know is
>that the connection is good and I never had any trouble with it. My
>question is, how can I find wich port are open to use bit torrent
>programs such as Utorrent or Emule. I was wondering if a Port Sniffer
>could help me...

You're stealing service now in a small way, and now you want help stealing it
in a big way?

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Tell your neighbour to stop "beaming" that deadly signal into your home
!

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>Im using a wireless conection without security in my neighbourhood. I
>have no idea who provides it

>question is, how can I find wich port are open to use bit torrent

Leaving aside the ethical, moral, and legal aspects of using someone's
AP without permission, you are going to suck up all their bandwidth
with BitTorrent, and make their lives miserable. Please don't.

<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Im using a wireless conection without security in my neighbourhood. I
> have no idea who provides it, what kind of rooter it is, all I know is
> that the connection is good and I never had any trouble with it. My
> question is, how can I find wich port are open to use bit torrent
> programs such as Utorrent or Emule. I was wondering if a Port Sniffer
> could help me...
> Thank you,
> JP
> (E-Mail Removed)
>
It is not a good idea to "freeload" on someone else's network without their
permission. As for going to make use of a bit torrent facility across it,
you are really asking for trouble when they find out that their connection
performance drops. They may well be paying for the amount of data being used
from their ISP and your "freeloading" is tantamount to theft.

Be honest and get your own connection.

Pierre

On 3 Feb 2006 15:43:42 -0800, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:

>Im using a wireless conection without security in my neighbourhood. I
>have no idea who provides it, what kind of rooter it is, all I know is
>that the connection is good and I never had any trouble with it. My
>question is, how can I find wich port are open to use bit torrent
>programs such as Utorrent or Emule. I was wondering if a Port Sniffer
>could help me...

You can use one of the internet based security scanners to find holes
in the firewall. However, the effort will surely be futile because
none of the potential list of open IP ports will point to your PC's IP
address. At worst, the owner of the router has setup some incoming
ports for BitTorrent, but pointed them at his computer, not yours.
Nice try.

Since the system is totally insecure, and since you don't seem too
interested in asking permission before using someone elses system, you
might wanna try just connecting to the web server in your neighbors
router and configuring it for your benifit. Beside not having any
wireless security, the router probably is running with defaults, which
probably includes the default password. You should be able to
identify the maker and model by the initial login screen.

However, if you still have something left of a concience, and actually
want to make an attempt to ask the owner for permission, you can use a
laptop as a crude direction finder by blocking most of the signal with
some aluminum flashing as a reflector. It's not the best direction
finder, but it will work well enough. For suburban neighborhoods, I
can usually locate the house by just walking down the road with my
laptop and watching the signal strength.


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> AP without permission, you are going to suck up all their bandwidth
> with BitTorrent, and make their lives miserable. Please don't.

On a purely technical note, you can throttle the bittorrent bandwidth.
It doesn't have to suck it dry but can run at a trickle.

David.

(E-Mail Removed) had me ROTFL with: news:1139010222.688857.232600
@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

> Im using a wireless conection without security in my neighbourhood. I
> have no idea who provides it, what kind of rooter it is, all I know is
> that the connection is good and I never had any trouble with it. My
> question is, how can I find wich port are open to use bit torrent
> programs such as Utorrent or Emule. I was wondering if a Port Sniffer
> could help me...
> Thank you,
> JP
> (E-Mail Removed)
>

The only advice I have is that you are a thief.