Red Exclamation

[miggab]

I had Azureus and decided to switch over to Utorrent. Everything was going fine until a few days ago I had to reboot my pc and when I restarted I noticed the red exclamation and nothing I do works. I know how to forward ports as I learned how to do that with Azureus. I turned off the XP firewall, I forwarded the appropriate ports both on my internet connection and on my NETGEAR router and still nothing. As I said earlier it was working fine before. I would appreciated any help.

[abbad0n]

Did you turn off "randomize port every time uTorrent starts" in preferences -> connection? If you didn't just put in the old port number and see if that fixes it.

[Ultima]

You did set a static IP for your computer when you forwarded the port, right?

[miggab]

Randomized ports is unchecked. I do not have a static IP address, but this has never stopped either UTORRENT or AZUREUS from working before.

[µtorrent-Guest]

non the less it could be that you have now after the last PC restart a new IP!

so check your portforwarding rule for that

[Ultima]

If you don't set a static IP for your computer, you're asking for something like this to happen. The only way you can guarantee that the port will always be forwarded to your computer is if your computer can keep that IP.