Listen port error on Vista - FIX

[yngmstr]

BEFORE YOU START!!!

You need to have TCP set up with a static ip behind your router. If it worked in XP s2 and you upgraded this might fix it. Don't know how to set up a static ip? Do a search for it on this forum, some of the mods here have great tutorials on it. This was the last thing I did, I had all my ports forwarded with my router, and all that fun stuff.

I am running Vista Ultimite on a

Intel® Celeron® D CPU 3.20GHZ

2 Gig Ram

100 Gig HD

32-bit Vista

Clearwire modem on a Linksys router

I upgraded from XP s2 where utorrent was working great, after the clean install, and going through and redoing my tcp and static ip. I was faced with the red dot, telling me to change my listen port, so I went through Windows Firewall and changed the open port and made sure it was there for both TCP and UDP and was still getting the red dot. It didn't matter if Windows Firewall was on or not.

I found looking through the help files that Windows Firewall has advanced settings, and these are active weather Windows Firewall is on or not!

So here is how I fixed it. The green dot takes a few seconds to come on, and the yellow triangle will come on if there is no direct incoming connections, but so far no more red dot. Oh and my speed is alot better.

First. Do a search in the start menu for "firewall" this will pull up "Windows Firewall " and "Windows Firewall with advanced security". Click on Windows Firewall with advanced security.

As you will see there are selections for inbound and outbound rules. Click inbound rules. This will bring up a list of the rules you currently have inbound.

Your open ports should be listed in here ( the ones you should have made in Windows Firewall ). On the right hand of the screen you will see "New Rule... Click on it.

Select TCP, and enter the port. Click next.

Click Allow all connections. Click next.

Next is where you want this to apply, I left all the boxes checked.

Now name the rule, I named mine Utorrent tcp inbound. Just to make it easier to see what it was.

Returning to the main window, you should see something like this.

I repeated the above for TCP outbound, UDP inbound and, UDP outbound.

So there you have it, a fix that worked for me, and hopefully will work for you.

YngMstr

Just found this and thought I might add it here... I was in another forum, and this can be another reason that you are only getting the red dot.

How To: Disable IPv6 and QoS

Theres a big chance that youre not using

IPv6 and probably have no need for QoS on your network.

How To Disable IPv6 and QoS on Microsoft Windows Vista

Click Start > Control Panel

Click Network and Internet > Networking and Sharing Center

On the left side pane click Manage network connections

Right click on your NIC and then select Properties

De-select IPv6 and QoS and then click Ok

Restart your computer for the new settings to take effect.

[yusky03]

thanks for the fix but it did not work for me i still get the listen error any other possible causes

it just happened out of nowhere one day utorrent worked then the next i get this error and my download/uploads are lowered

Edit: maybe a windows update could have caused it... just a thought

[kLAcK]

This worked for me! Thanks!