cvantez Posted August 9, 2007 Report Share Posted August 9, 2007 Hey guys,I did my best to look through the Sticky topics and such but could not find an answer or solution to my problem. At first uTorrent had a yellow exclamation point in the status bar. So I looked up some FAQs regarding port forwarding. So I went into my vista Windows Firewall and made sure uTorrent was allowed to do it's thing. Then I set up exceptions for port 5970, both UDB and TCP.It still didn't affect the port checking thing within uTorrent, but I read that I might have to reboot, so I did.Upon load there was no change. Download for a torrent with 12 (61) seeds and (1) 28 peers rarely surpasses 15kbp/s. Upload speeds are negligible, less than 1kb even, if at all.I really appreciate any help you guys can provide me.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - #Speed Test # Network Status Light is a red exclamation point, apparently due to my Vista Firewall, within which I have given uTorrent exception status (full access)# Checking port 5970 on 65.40.16.63...Error! Port 5970 does not appear to be open.# Upload limit: 0kb upload slots: 4 connections: 50 connections global: 200 max active torrents 8 max active dls 5. current port 5970# net.max_halfopen is 8# Vista Home Premium# Vista Firewall# Sprint 645 Series Modem, Ethernet cable from it directly to PC# Embarq/Earthlink DSL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nos_slived Posted August 9, 2007 Report Share Posted August 9, 2007 Your modem acts as a router, you need to port forward it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cvantez Posted August 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 9, 2007 it's not like installed hardware, so from the vista side of things it just senses a connection, so there are no settings or port forwarding to be done from within windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted August 9, 2007 Report Share Posted August 9, 2007 In Speed Guide (CTRL+G), you probably need to choose the xx/384k setting to roughly match your upload speed max. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cvantez Posted August 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 9, 2007 15/20k download, 0k upload, still red exclamation marked after your speed setting suggestion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nos_slived Posted August 10, 2007 Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 it's not like installed hardware, so from the vista side of things it just senses a connection, so there are no settings or port forwarding to be done from within windows.Perhaps I'm misreading and missing something, but how exactly does that relate to your modem required the port to be forwarded? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cvantez Posted August 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 there are no settings for the modem to speak of, near as i can tell. the modem isn't in my hardware list that I can find to be able to forward a port on. am *I* missing something?now the status is yellow, but with the previous suggestion of changing my upload speeds, my uploads are zinging along at 35kb, triple what i'm downloading at. jesus, this is frustrating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted August 10, 2007 Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 Usually, you configure modems or routers via internet browser window going to their LAN ip address. From their web page/s, you configure them....There generally won't be anything in your computer's hardware list for either your modem or router. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cvantez Posted August 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 i've set my IP to static in the settings, yet when I input the address in firefox it times out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciper Posted August 10, 2007 Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 What address are you putting into firefox? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cvantez Posted August 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 the IP address the tutorial on PortForwarding walked me through in obtaining.it's supposed to currently be set at 192.168.1.136supposedly if I enter that in a browser i'll be able to open a port on my modem.this whole this is getting ridiculous. I remember now why I gave up on bittorrent and just trolled for rapidshare/megaupload links; the speed is just not there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted August 10, 2007 Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 You'd probably want 192.168.1.1 to connect to your router and/or modem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cvantez Posted August 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 tried it already...doesn't work either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciper Posted August 10, 2007 Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 Open a command prompt and run the ipconfig command. Look for the number next to default gateway and enter that into firefox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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