Nothing I do will work, please help!

[arpitp]

I am behind a Netgear WGR614v5 wireless router, and I've followed the instructions at www.portforward.com for my router 3 times all the way through. I am SURE everythign is right.

I set uTorrent to listen to port 22630 (chosen at random), and set up my router to forward port 22630 to my static IP. (I have confirmed that my static IP and the forwading server IP match).

I turned off all firewalls, antiviruses, peerguardian, and never had norton installed. I even set my IP as the router's DMZ server (effectively forwarding ALL ports to my computer, and removing any firewall the router may be putting up). (I have tried with this on and off).

Despite ALL this, NONE of my ports are open. I've tried various online port scanners (eg. http://www.auditmypc.com/freescan/selscan.asp), and EVERY port is still protected.

Can anyone out there help me figure out why uTorrent cannot listen to this port (22630) that should be open to it?

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Points of interest:

-uTorrent 1.5 always gave me a yellow or red light, but I guess I never paid attention to it before.

-on a certain torrent, (not a fake) i have 13/1204 seeds + 30/2469 peers, but still decent download speeds of about 40-50 kb/s, but uploading when seeding weaker torrents is not so good.

-0 incoming connections at all times

-When I plug my computer (Toshiba laptop) directly into the modem, the same problem still exitst.

-my ISP is bell sympatico (toronto, canada), and they say they do to block ANY ports

-I do not have anything from the "Incompatible Softwares" list (no firewalls, only antivirus (Avast, is fully off)

-Splame wrote "UPNP is well and truly broken in v1.6 on my Netgear WGR614" and a whole buncha code that means little to me here: http://www.utorrent.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=195059#p195059

Scan saved at 11:07:25 PM, on 7/15/2006

Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)

MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.5450.0004)

Running processes:

C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe

C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe

C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe

C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe

C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe

C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe

C:\WINDOWS\System32\S24EvMon.exe

C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe

C:\WINDOWS\system32\ZCfgSvc.exe

C:\Program Files\Avast4\aswUpdSv.exe

C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE

C:\Program Files\TOSHIBA\ConfigFree\CFSvcs.exe

C:\WINDOWS\System32\DVDRAMSV.exe

C:\WINDOWS\system32\nvsvc32.exe

C:\WINDOWS\System32\RegSrvc.exe

C:\WINDOWS\System32\00THotkey.exe

C:\WINDOWS\System32\1XConfig.exe

C:\WINDOWS\system32\TFNF5.exe

C:\Program Files\TOSHIBA\TOSHIBA Zooming Utility\SmoothView.exe

C:\Program Files\SigmaTel\SigmaTel AC97 Audio Drivers\stacmon.exe

C:\Program Files\Synaptics\SynTP\SynTPLpr.exe

C:\Program Files\Synaptics\SynTP\SynTPEnh.exe

C:\Program Files\TOSHIBA\TouchED\TouchED.Exe

C:\WINDOWS\AGRSMMSG.exe

C:\WINDOWS\system32\TPSMain.exe

C:\WINDOWS\system32\dla\tfswctrl.exe

C:\Program Files\TOSHIBA\Touch and Launch\PadExe.exe

C:\Program Files\TOSHIBA\TOSHIBA Controls\TFncKy.exe

C:\Program Files\ltmoh\Ltmoh.exe

C:\WINDOWS\system32\TPSBattM.exe

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Distillr\Acrotray.exe

C:\PROGRA~1\Avast4\ashDisp.exe

C:\WINDOWS\system32\ctfmon.exe

C:\Program Files\PeerGuardian2\pg2.exe

C:\WINDOWS\system32\RAMASST.exe

C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe

C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE

C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe

C:\WINDOWS\system32\wscntfy.exe

C:\Documents and Settings\*** ***\Application Data\uTorrent\utorrent.exe

C:\WINDOWS\system32\notepad.exe

C:\Documents and Settings\*** ***\Desktop\HijackThis.exe

Any help anyone?!?!

[DreadWingKnight]

My first thought is to get rid of peer guardian (uninstall).

It provides no real protection and is very likely one of the causes of your problems.

DMZ does not solve as many problems with port forwarding or firewalls as you may think it should. In fact it can sometimes cause more serious problems than it solves.

When you set the static IP, did you set it inside or outside of your router's DHCP range (within the same 192.168.x subnet)?

[arpitp]

ok, so I turned DMZ back off

however, i've tried the portforwarding with and without DMZ and peer guardian

my router is 192.168.1.1

my (static) IP is 192.168.1.2 (within the range)

still same problem

[arpitp]

can anyone think of anything that will help?!

[Firon]

DMZ is fine as long as it's not a D-Link usually. Maybe some Netgears do it too.