itsok Posted January 6, 2007 Report Share Posted January 6, 2007 Utorrent keeps changing nat from yellow to green and back.I have been using torrents for years and have forwarded the port as i always did.Upnp is disabled both in utorrent and in the router.When i check with the http://www.utorrent.com/testport.php?port=5xxxx site it always says ok,whether the speed guide icon is yellow or green.The change does not have any consequences on speed or connections, the only thing it affects and i notice is that icon,which sometimes inbetween the changes disappears completely for a few minutes.This problem is rather weird,almost as the problem that my router sometimes when using bittorrent stops working(no connection and no response to ping) until restarted.Anyway: Im using a level one w-lan adapter and a speedport w500v.I have zone alarm pro 6.5 installed on windows xp pro sp2 with the windows firewall turned off.Also use Mcaffe virusscan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted January 6, 2007 Report Share Posted January 6, 2007 As long as it can turn green, alternating between green and yellow doesn't matter; itsok for it to do that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itsok Posted January 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2007 Thank you for giving me the reassurance i needed and i'm sorry for not coming up with a wordplay for your nick.Your actually one of the first to understand it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted January 7, 2007 Report Share Posted January 7, 2007 I couldn't resist the wordplay on your name (lol what a dweeb I must look like now... xD). And you're welcome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itsok Posted January 15, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 15, 2007 now the only thing i would like to know is why the icon can tell me the port is open while portprobe claims otherwise... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted January 16, 2007 Report Share Posted January 16, 2007 You're probably behind a proxy then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itsok Posted January 18, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2007 My isp denies that and i personally certainly don't use one...Anyway as i said before non of that actually has a negative effect on my ability to download or on my download speed.The reason i made this remark is pure interest and the will to understand the software i use.Since i 've had this "trouble" with utorrent not really knowing what the nat status is i noticed the above mentioned things: First utorrent sometimes switches back n forth between green and yellow no matter if portprobe claims that everything is ok.Second to that i noticed that portprobe is also giving me "wrong" results when utorrent claims nat is ok(green) by clearly stating that the port is 'stealth'(red).Thought of proxy problems myself so i specifically asked my isp about that.All this is just very hard to comprehend for me as i can not find any reasonable explaination, mainly because all this does neither affect my ability to connect to trackers and other members of the swarm nor my dl or ul speed which are always perfect. Anyway I would be real glad to continue this conversation... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted January 18, 2007 Report Share Posted January 18, 2007 When you use the port checker, does the URL contain :16000? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted January 18, 2007 Report Share Posted January 18, 2007 itsok, an overloaded connection can technically be unfirewalled (green in µTorrent) but so overloaded by µTorrent that a separate firewall check will return "stealthed" due to the connection attempt failing or no reply was sent...or reached...the sender. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itsok Posted January 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2007 I'm sorry switeck but i didn't completely understand what you mean. I guess that in your opinion it's portprobe getting connection attempt failing or no reply was sent when attemting to reach port 5xxxx that is listed in the URL(to answer Ultima's question).In case that was what you meant i think it only solves what is described in my 3rd post but not my first question...Thank you people for discussing this with me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted January 21, 2007 Report Share Posted January 21, 2007 Also, if you're on small torrents then there is no peers or seeds that haven't already connected to you. So there's no new incoming connections...and µTorrent assumes it is firewalled after maybe 15 minutes like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itsok Posted January 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2007 ok that is something i'll certainly keep in mind.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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