Airtel Blocking Joost ?

[Crazysah]

Weird? It works fine for me!

 

[Sushubh]

arey i posted within 15 minutes of downloading and installing and trying. joost has never worked for me! on XP, on Vista and of course not on Ubuntu

 

[Osiris]

this is from their tech requirements page:

You'll need to check that your firewall or router is configured to allow access by Joost application. In particular, make sure that the following are enabled:

[*]TCP access, outbound, to ports 80, 443 and 5223.
[*]UDP access, outbound, to port 4166 and 33333.
[*]If you want to chat from within Joost, you'll also need to enable inbound TCP access to port 5223.
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BTW, Isn't port 5223 also used by eMule? Not sure.. is anyone facing issues with it running emule?

 

[Sushubh]

well running no firwalls here. looking at the problems i am facing with torrents, i blame it ALL on AIRTEL

 

[Osiris]

are you running a daisy chained network configuration? i mean your airtel modem connecting to a wi-fi hub or something? i may be wrong, but i recall you mentioning that somewhere before. it is quite possible there are conflicts due to that arrangement. try running a full port check on your connection from one of those internet services (shields up or something similar.. portcheck) and also on those specific ports required by Joost, and see if the required ports are being blocked by your router/firewall whatever...run them on ubuntu as well.. and see if you see a difference. even if you are not running a firewall, vista has a very screwed up tendency to be paranoid about everything...btw.. you may want to also run a check on your torrent port as well.. more often than not its a port conflict that causes these speed issues esp. when dealing with P2P traffic.. but then it could be your local DSLAM and the tag your account is on that might be messed up. That you can only have the the local airtel monke.. er.. engineer check for you. in uTorrent (maybe in Az as well) do not use the random port option. Specify a static port for torrents and unblock that in your firewall and forward it in your NAT settings on your airtel modem/router.

 

[Sushubh]

the port check option in utorrent and azureus show that the ports are blocked. after setting on a couple of plugins things work fine...i guess i would have to wait for an updated Joost which would try to fix these issues on its own with the same technology Skype used to rely upon.

 

[Osiris]

then the problem is with incorrect port forwarding on your network. For P2P apps to work properly you need to resolve that, for torrent or joost.btw, joost and skype are two completely different entities.. not sure what good waiting for an updated joost app would do, if the primary issue you have is blocked ports... in any case Joost needs a minimum of 1mbps for it to be of any use.. else it just stutters.. just plain annoying. i would seriously look into resolving that blocked port issue first

 

[Sushubh]

well i talked about skype here coz joost is being developed by the same people who created skype. and skype was perhaps one of the first popular applications to find ways around firewalls and other network blocks.of course i need to get my blocked port problem solved... it's becoming a mess for me.i am also tired of airtel serving me blank pages... it happens pretty randomly. lasts for a couple of seconds.

 

[Osiris]

blank pages? what do you mean? on your browser, on random sites or all sites? you using opendns?

 

[Sushubh]

well its a weird problem i face whenever i am using torrents. of course they squeeze in all the bandwidth. even after closing the torrent client... all the website pages would load in blank. no errors. just blank pages. i have a feeling that this is a windows related issue coz i usually do not face this problem on my ubuntu machine.the problem last for a couple of minutes. a reboot works almost all the time. perhaps the torrent client opens up so many connections that the browser chokes and dies while trying to retrieve the data. just frustrating.