Shareaza

Shareaza should be able to choose random ports from within the startup wizard, before the page with the UPnP router config.

The 4 options that could be included are:

* choose random port from 1024 - 49151 (default) [use the .dat file I attached to this post in order to filter out already registered ones etc.]
* choose port from 49152 - 65535
* choose port manually
* use port 6346

How about including an option(I believe uTorrent has it) to randomize port on each startup?

This will not work for lots of people, as there are still much modem/router devices with turned off UPnP or even without the feature... or devices incompatible with Shareaza, that's why I proposed to use an UPnP library instead of our own code...

The very rightful scenario : Shareaza tries to use uPnP - if this fail - Shareaza suggest user to select either default port (6346), random port or if user know his modem/router configuration - manual port. All this must be on one dialog. Also in this dialog must be link to how-to about port-forwarding/NAT.


P.S. For someone Shareaza's uPnP work always, for someone(like me) -50/50, for someone - don't work at all. This is bit strange because eDonkey2000 uPnP (from year 2004?) work always - tried it with 9 routers (yes i have many network devices at home - around 20 different routers, many managed 24port switches, tons of WiFi and so on). Not to mention uTorrent.

Randomizing port... and that randomized port could be auto-portforwarded... Some dreams can become true...
"I would buy it for a dollar" - from Robocop
If that would work even for some users I think they would be delighted. Diz could could buy +4 routers and use diferent device every hour....
+1

FYI, Wizard port selection had been implemented in a Shareaza project fork.

Focus on simple. Enables Random to encourage uPnP. Currently ranges full 1030-65530, but any particularly common conflicts could be hardcoded. .Dat list is another matter.
...Per-session random must not be default, because it makes re-finding friends/family more difficult. And default port should remain 6346, otherwise anyone who has previously port-forwarded (or blindly in the future) will find reduced performance without realizing why. Simply prompting people to choose a personal number upfront should suffice.