Amateur Posted February 28, 2007 Report Share Posted February 28, 2007 I have a Netgear DG834GT router, broadband line is provided by BT, Toshiba laptop with wireless connection, Norton Protection Centre, Windows XP and my windows firewall is disabled. I went to portforward.com and forwarded the appropriate port and have been happily using utorrent for about a month with a green tick in the NAT place. However, this morning I got a yellow triangle and then red exclamation mark and when I tested whether my port was forwarded correctly, there was an error. I went back to the port forward section and re-checked everything and green tick appeared again. Now I have the same problem and I have re-checked everything again with no success. Why is this and what can I do about it? I'd appreciate some help as I am newish to torrents and ports. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted March 2, 2007 Report Share Posted March 2, 2007 Make sure you set a static IP up for your computer and forwarded to that IP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amateur Posted March 16, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2007 I thought I had set up a static IP but maybe I haven't done it properly. Since I last contacted you I accidently reset my router. When I set it back up again the green light came on for about two days but now I'm back to having these issues. I have a red light, when I check in the statistics screen I have no incoming connections and downloading is painfully slow. I'm still getting an error in the port forward despite following all the instructions. Could someone maybe give me a simple guide to setting up a static IP so I can check I've done this correctly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted March 16, 2007 Report Share Posted March 16, 2007 http://www.portforward.com/networking/static-xp.htmHave you checked this yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amateur Posted March 16, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2007 That's actually what I initially set the static IP up with. I rechecked it all again and hadn't set the right DNS so corrected and my speeds have improved slightly. But I've still got that red ! and my port is not forwarded correctly despite having followed the instructions on portforward for my router and I still have no incoming connections. I've also checked the firewall information on my antivirus protection and changed that slightly. I don't understand why I had the green tick for about 6 weeks when I first setup utorrent and then now I'm having the incoming connection issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amateur Posted March 16, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2007 I have just been reading some of the other posts for NAT errors (quite far on as I had checked prior to asking for advice) and tried enabling the uPnP mapping. I now have the green tick back. I was sure that in some of the guides it said to make sure it was off. Thanks for all your help anyway. It is appreciated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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