zagan

Most windows software firewalls, hook into the network card drivers and intercept all packets before hitting windows, Have these set to block ports etc and you won't get any packets. The WinXP Firewall, blocks incoming packets only, (as per MS) therefore if you allow UTorrent inself to setup the winXP firewall you'll find... if you take a look and setup the rules properly yourself, that all incoming UDP packets for UTorrent are blocked because their isn't any rules saying to allow UDP traffic to UTorrent. The only major differance between a hardware firewall and a software one is the hardware one is in another box but it's still a software firewall ruuning the show, your computer just doesn't have the berden of running the firewall on it anymore.

I've worked out what the problem is. The tracker port needs to have TCP/UDP traffic allowed not just TCP traffic, then it'll work,. You'll probably find that while your main port has TCP/UDP traffic allowed, the tracker only has TCP. No idea why UTorrent is stuffing up like this but that seems to be what the problem is. Merged double post(s): Turning off all firewalls might make UTorrent work great but it'll also allow for all that spyware etc be allowed to go off and have a ball at your expense. EDIT by silverfire: The edit function exists for a reason. Please do not double post. Please the fourm would be running on a SQL database, read up how how many reads/writes can be made in 1 second a SQL server, if the server is falling over then get a faster server that can handle the load of the programs running on it.