No network OK in µtorrent 1.2.2

[hofshi]

Hi,

eversince I upgraded to µtorrent 1.2.2, (A few hours ago), I don't have the network ok showing.

I have 5 torrents that I am only seeding, But I did have network ok in v1.2.1.

any ideas?

thanks,

Hofshi

[1c3d0g]

Hmm...did you uncheck "Randomize port each time µTorrent starts" (if you have port forwarded manually of course)? :|

[hofshi]

"Randomize port" is unchecked, exactly as it was on v1.2.1.

(I don't forward manually. I don't think I have a router, unless it is incorpotated into my ADSL modem).

Anyway, I didn't have this problem before, and I didn't change any options since the upgrade.

Might it be caused by the fact that none of my torrents are uploading at the moment?

all of them have 0(0) peers.

[ludde]

Probably your firewall is blocking it.

[hofshi]

µtorrent had all the permissions in my firewall, but just in case, I exited µtorrent , removed µtorrent from Z.A., restarted µtorrent, and gave all permissions back to µtorrent.

I still don't get network ok, but if I do, I will update you.

The DHT seems to be working fine (don't know if that's relevent or not)

[hofshi]

p.s. @Ludde: this is an opertunity to say many thanks for a great application. I don't know how you did it, but hats of to you, and thank you.

[1c3d0g]

Yeah, and whether you have a Modem/Router/whatever is not important...you should still find a way to forward a port. Trust me, your downloads and uploads really fly once you have "Network OK".

[hofshi]

They did before

why did that change after an upgrade?

I'm still using the same port as before.

[1c3d0g]

Well I know ZoneAlarm can be very picky sometimes, even denying access to Windows Update when M$ upgrades their system to the newest version. :/ But in your case I'm as confused as you are...

[hofshi]

well if you have any idea that I can try, it will be greatly appreciated, cause I'm at lost here...

Edit:

BTW, in the status area of ZoneAlarm, It shows µtorrent as listening to the port I chose, so I'm not completely sure that it's a firewall issue.

[Firon]

You did make sure to allow all outgoing connections right? And UDP too.

[1c3d0g]

Does "Network OK" come back if you use 1.2.1? If so, then this probably indicates a minor incompatibility with your particular system and µTorrent...if it doesn't show "Network OK", then at least you know that the newer µTorrent is not the cause.

[hofshi]

I'm using Z.A. pro.

When Z.A. pro encounters an application that it has never encountered before (as it did after I removed µtorrent from its program list) it asks the user if the application should be allowed to access the internet, and whether it should be allowed to act as a server.

To both questions I replied "yes".

This is exactly the same procedure I've done for all the previous versions of µtorrent, and it always worked.

I really can't think of anything I did differently this time, except that now it's the only time that I was ONLY seeding when upgrading w/o any active download.

[Firon]

Try running a torrent with a lot of peers (>100; download or upload), and let it run for a while.

[hofshi]

you are the man.

the minute I started to d/l openoffice.org v2.0 the "network ok" appeared, and it's d/l-ing at 125kbps.

Thank you very much for you support!

p.s. did I mention that I love this bittorrent client?

[lxwong]

So does that mean that uTorrent works very well under optimim conditions but fails miserably otherwise...............

[Firon]

No, it just means that you can't always get full speed on most torrents with ANY clients. Speeds problems are typically not µTorrent's fault, it's generally either a hardware issue, or someone with a crappy firewall / bad firewall settings / no ports forwarded.

[lxwong]

Sry I forgot to edit my earlier post as my uTorrent is showing Network OK in the status bar and is running fine. I cant understand why it refused to work for almost a week and only a few hours ago pulled its act together. I didnt change any settings so whats with uTorrent being so fickle.........

[hofshi]

In no way did I say that µtorrent failled miserably. in fact I never got in Az speeds as high as I get in µtorrent.

[amonrei]

This happens to me too. It was ok before ... hmm .. i don't have software firewall. Just a modem router and i'm sure it's port forwarded properly already. The speed is quite ok though. Weird ...

[chaosblade]

I just think uTorrent doesnt display the "Network OK" message if you're only running very small swarms because it would be unreliable (dont quote me here, i could be wrong).

[lxwong]

I just think uTorrent doesnt display the "Network OK" message if you're only running very small swarms because it would be unreliable (dont quote me here, i could be wrong).

On the contrary, I think u hit the nail on the head....

So next time I'll just quote you......

[slayers]

After I upgraded to 1.2.2, enable UPnP port mapping got checked in uTorrent (when it wasn't). It has happened on other upgrades but not consistently. Upon reading these posts you might want to check it, it's the sort of thing that might be playing a part on all this.