Windows firewall blocking download

Windows firewall is blocking my BitTorrent downloads. It has not worked properly since I moved back to the states from Germany. I also checked the setting for the firewall and do have BitTorrent as a safe site. Any suggestions? Thanks!

If you're using a satellite ISP service, you are probably firewalled by it.

Thanks--yes we are currently connected by Hughes Net (new housing with no phone/internet cables run yet). So how would I unblock the firewall from the satelite provider?

More than likely you can't. They block all but the necessary ports, on purpose because satellite communication is so expensive.

Paintball9:

Thanks for your reply--Idon't like the answer, but that explains the problem.

They probably even only give you a LAN ip address, so the same internet ip may be shared by multiple others.

Switech:

Thanks for your reply. I do not know how it was setup. No other way around it?

VPN might be able to get through, Its gonna cost you a bit though, and you're speed won't be great.

2 year old posts on some random forum I found say $10 to get a static public IP, you'd need to check with them to confirm the price and if they directly assign you a public IP.