Chapter 16 Bandwidth Management
Table 58 Media Bandwidth Management Setup: Services (continued)
SERVICE | DESCRIPTION |
BitTorrent | BitTorrent is a free P2P |
| distribute large software and media files using ports 6881 to 6889. |
| BitTorrent requires you to search for a file with a searching engine |
| yourself. It distributes files by corporation and trading, that is, the |
| client downloads the file in small pieces and share the pieces with other |
| peers to get other half of the file. |
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Gaming | Online gaming services lets you play multiplayer games on the Internet |
| via broadband technology. One example is Microsoft’s Xbox Live, which |
| uses port 3074. As of this writing, your |
| Playstation, Battlenet and MSN Game Zone. |
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16.5.4 Services and Port Numbers
See Appendix E on page 253 for commonly used services and port numbers.
