PUREMETAL Posted July 4, 2006 Report Share Posted July 4, 2006 Apologies up front for being a sub-nooob!!I get quite low Download speeds and on the bottom I get the red circle with an ! in it. When I place the pointer over that it says: "NOT CONNECTIBLE- YOU NEED TO OPEN UP APORT SO OTHERS CAN CONECT TO YOU" and there's all Xs on my Flags.I disabled all my firewalls and that changed nothing and haven't a clue about adding ports or anything. I now have 1.6- and I'm pretty sure that I didn't have this specific problem running 1.5- though speeds were always kinda slow then. I have Verizon DSL but am only getting d/l speeds of about 10 kBs and upload speeds a little bit higher.Any help would be appreciated and thanks in advance!Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SL83 Posted July 4, 2006 Report Share Posted July 4, 2006 Are you connected behind a router? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PUREMETAL Posted July 4, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 4, 2006 I don't believe so. How can I check? (Sorry about the noobiness...gotta learn somewhere ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SL83 Posted July 4, 2006 Report Share Posted July 4, 2006 Next to your DSL modem, is there another box? Netgear, DLink, Linksys, SMC, etc that allows multiple computers to connect to your DSL connection? Or, you can go to Start>RUN> and type "cmd /k ipconfig" without the quotes, and if your IP starts with a 192, you probably have a router. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PUREMETAL Posted July 4, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 4, 2006 the IP starts with a 192. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SL83 Posted July 4, 2006 Report Share Posted July 4, 2006 Then you have a router and you need to forward ports to your private IP address in order to get a green light.If you look at the IP listed in Default gateway, if you put it into your web browser, is SHOULD bring you to a login/web configuration page for your router. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PUREMETAL Posted July 4, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 4, 2006 ok, it's asking for username and password... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SL83 Posted July 4, 2006 Report Share Posted July 4, 2006 Try a blank username and the password admin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PUREMETAL Posted July 4, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 4, 2006 It just comes back to the same sign-up screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SL83 Posted July 4, 2006 Report Share Posted July 4, 2006 Then find out what router you have specifically, and go to www.PortForward.com and follow the directions. I'm off to bed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PUREMETAL Posted July 4, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 4, 2006 ok- thanks for the help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PUREMETAL Posted July 4, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 4, 2006 Update: well, I disconnected both my firewalls (the difference between that and last time it didn't fix the red icon was that this time I closed U-TORRENT and opened it back up) and that gives me a yellow icon down there, but the speed is still slower than molasses... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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