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I was only refering to the nature of the comment, which was somewhat derisory. The comment clearly questions my part in the problems I have been experiencing. I have a good understanding of the technologies in use here, and value the opinions of others, hence my appearance here. We can all share knowledge without being condescending. Again, and honestly, I thank everyone's input. Merged double post(s): Back to the topic in hand, and my apologies for any unrest. I'm starting to think that my ISP may have a part in my connection issues. I have been doing some reading on the use of traffic shaping here in the UK. It seems that since the move to 8mbps broadband, ISPs are being pressured to 'control' thiers users bandwidth use. I might just be grasping at straws here, but the intermittant nature of the problems I have been experiencing are causing me to look further for explaination. EDIT: You're quite right when it comes to intelligence. I stand corrected. EDIT2 by silverfire: Please do not double post.

silverfire, I'd appreciate you minding your tone. If you would like to question my intelligence or ability please do so directly, then I will gladly ignore all that you have to say. Thanks for your input.

Please tell me if I am being unreasonable, but I am not willing to give up my firewall. Is it too much to expect that utorrent behaves with a firewall installed? Besides that I have reproduced the same problems with and without a software firewall installed. I'm running out of ideas here. With regards to the tracker ports on TCP/UDP, would I be correct in thinking that there is nothing I can do about the tracker ports at my end? silverfire: Would you care to explain why software firewalls are of no help.

Ports are fully open for UDP and TCP. As explained in my previous message, I have tried with 2 different firewalls and with all firewalls uninstalled (including disabling Windows firewall). The only thing that made a difference was the deletion of all the settings in %APPDATA%. After deleting all the settings everything was working very well (and very fast) with over 100 nodes on DHT, even after reinstalling ZoneAlarm Free. Nothing had been changed, but on retutrning to my machine the next morning, DHT problems again. This sure is a tricky one. Any more ideas anyone? Is any body else having these troubles?

Honestly, I'm not trying to cause problems for you guys, but the DHT problem has returned. I'm now stuck on waiting to log in. I've not tried anything this time, I'll wait for your advice here. Developer type folks, please excuse the tone of my previous comment, I was getting a little frustrated. I realise how hard you work and really do appreciate it.

I have tried everything suggested in this thread. I have tried utorrent with ZoneAlarm Free, with ZoneAlarm removed, with no firewall at all, and with Kerio 2.1.5. With all this configs, utorrent will not connect to DHT (either waiting to login or 0 nodes). Before the latest update to utorrent, it had been working perfectly with ZoneAlarm Free, and through my testing I have disproved that ZoneAlarm is at fault. Then, I followed the advice given by Stucatz, and it's only gone and worked. Many thanks to you Stucatz. I'm a little concerned that the developers had so little insight here, but problem solved so nevermind. Thanks to everyone involved.