loba Posted September 23, 2006 Report Share Posted September 23, 2006 HiI am new to utorrent so please bear with me.I started downloaded a torrent and was enjoying speeds up to 150kb/s. Now I am running at 5kb/s and it is avail 7.999Why has the speed now lowered so much and how can i improve it??What is the avail field for? Sorry I didnt check it when i was at the higher end of download speed.Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munak991 Posted September 23, 2006 Report Share Posted September 23, 2006 do u have a light green ball below ur utorrent there??if not u have a yellow triangle or a red colour triangle.mostly is u didnt port forwardto solve the problem u should visithttp://www.portforward.com/english/applications/port_forwarding/Utor/Utorindex.htm(help alot)open a port for ur router/modemuninstall any antivirus softwareor u can open a port in ur antivirus software dont forget to done the statis IP good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loba Posted September 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 23, 2006 HelloI have the green light (with the tick and saying network ok) and down the portforwarding this morning already. On the instructions it told me to disable the firewall and enbale the correcr port. Do I leave the firewall disabled or can i now enable it for protection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason180 Posted September 23, 2006 Report Share Posted September 23, 2006 Leave it disabled..If you turn it on it'll probably go back to red color Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted September 23, 2006 Report Share Posted September 23, 2006 What instructions say to disable your firewall...? Port forwarding can usually be done without having to resort to disabling the entire firewall, so I don't see why you should have to do that, unless your router is *bad*. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munak991 Posted September 24, 2006 Report Share Posted September 24, 2006 open port for your firewallwindow firewall can be open port any firewall can open port except i dont really know how to open port for McAfee firewall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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