Port open, yellow signal, up speed good and dl speed sucks

[Hydro_PT]

Hi to all .

I posted here some time ago, asking how to open a port with my router. I was finally able to do it, I opened this port "6112". Now the problem is that: the port can be open but I always have a yellow signal near the end of the page; the download speed is around 3 kB/s or less; the upload speed is around 30/40. I read your guides, tried everything to have more download speed and nothing. No way. My download speed, on the tests I made is about 350/370 kB/s and upload speed is around 30/40 kB/s.

And even more troubles: I don't know why, but my ports are always open and then close, open and then close again. I just tested some minutes ago port 6112 and it was OK. Since the speed was really low, I tried port 23404. Updated the router, no problem. Go to test the port, it was GREEN. Cool. Tested it 2 minutes later and it was CLOSED! WTF? And since that time, it is closed... I tried another one, 25994, updated router, port closed, no downloads.

I really don't get what is wrong, yesterday worked just fine, downloaded a torrent to test and amazing speeds, green icon, port open. Today is this sh*t .

Can you give me some ports to use, please? Or I can just use a random port?

Btw, here are some screens I took.. Utorrent is actually stopped, no download or upload. I'm really with a WTF face :S

PS: My ISP gives me a dynamic IP everyday. In my router you can see my current IP, yesterday wasn't that IP, so today I had to changed it to my current in order to get a GREEN in the port test. Maybe my problem is that? Or my problem is because I'm using the BETA version?

I'm really confused with all of this. Do I have any setting wrong? It's weird, yesterday worked so alright, I don't get it :S.

Please someone help me, I'm going to smash the router, its making me sick .

EDIT: Looks like the forum is cutting my images.. here are the links, please take a look .

http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/8584/ahhtw8.jpg

http://aycu24.webshots.com/image/37023/2005123325904590477_rs.jpg

EDIT2: Port 25994 is already opened again, just tested. WTF? :S And download is now at 64/70... WTF is wrong? Although the yellow icon continues and speed just keeps raising... O_o

EDIT3 -_-': I went to play a bit of Half-Life and I just checked how Utorrent was.. and guess what, speed at 10kB/ and port CLOSED. I don't do nothing and ports are always opened and closed, opened and closed O_o

[jewelisheaven]

Yea, this forum supports BBCode so tags are better direct links squash it into the frame.

Just looking at the images, it looks like you're putting your external IP address (WAN IP) in the configuration. Shouldn't you be putting in the LAN (static) IP so it knows where to send your packets to?

Also have you checked the links in my signature?

[Hydro_PT]

Thanks for the answer jewelisheaven ^^.

Yeah I'm putting my external IP. I just changed it. Used cmd command, ipconfig /all and got an IP which doesn't change, is always the same. Updated the router with the new IP, port is green and download speed is up up and way .

And yeah, I checked your links. Sorry about the pics thing on the rules, I never understand how to work with IMG tags, even I'm admin in another forum and I should know that lol. About the "erase the downloads on the list when showing Utorrent" I did that to one, the other it's just songs for Frets on Fire game .

And yeah, I read How-To, especially speed-guide. Nothing of that worked (that at least I noticed). Besides, when I had the modem only, I could download without problems and without changing definitions.

About this:

SLOW TRANSFER SPEEDS (be it upload or download) in µTorrent

* COMMON PROCEDURES (reiterated just to be sure)

* Make sure you have a green network status light in the µTorrent status bar and/or the port checker in the Speed Guide (Ctrl+G) shows the port to be open

I don't have a green light... I'm now downloading fast and without trouble, port is opened but there is a little yellow icon down there... when I used only modem, I always had a green icon. I'll wait a few more time to see if the port hangs on or not. I hope so, I can't understand why it closes and opens again, from time to time .

Thanks in advance

EDIT: If the connection hangs on (port doesn't close, speed good) I'll let Utorrent download the entire night. And then I'll have some conclusion about it... I hope .

---- UPDATE ----

Speed is really low now, less than 10 kB/s, port is open but stills that yellow icon down there...

[jewelisheaven]

Check the availability on the General tab. If you have just as much as everyone else in the swarm there is no problem. I'm glad your speeds improved.

[Hydro_PT]

At least the port close/open, close/open thing has come to an end. Thank god

Speed is now good... pretty good I may say. I just hope it continues like this. It's weird because it downloads good for a time and then just drop down :S.

I checked availability... I have 19.989 of availability. Is good, bad? Btw, what is swarm? I see here this: "Peers: 15 of 325 connected (0 in swarm)" :S

Tomorrow morning I can say something more... I will see how much it downloaded in the night...

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Oh dammit! While writing this speed dropped to 20 kB/s... sh*t sh*t sh*t . I don't get this.

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Just stopped the torrent, started again and speeds are good again but now they are already bad again O_o. What's wrong?

[torrero]

what settings do you use in

options,preferences,connection and

options,preferences,bittorrent ?

[jewelisheaven]

Also check the pictures in the signature of kurahashi-san to see if THAT is what you're experiencing on this torrent.

[Hydro_PT]

Torrero: I use in Connection this:

Randomize port each time Utorrent starts: OFF

Enable UPnP port mapping: OK

Add Utorrent to Windows Firewall exceptions (Windows XP SP2 or later only): OK

Enable NAT-PMP port mapping: OK

Proxy server type: (none)

Maximum upload rate (kB/s): 20

Maximum download rate (kB/s): 0 [unlimited]

In BitTorrent I have:

Global maximum number of connections: 130

Maximum number of connected peers per torrent: 70

Number of upload slots per torrent: 3

Enable DHT Network: OK

Enable DHT for new torrents: OK

Enable Local Peer Discovery: OK

Ask tracker for scrape information: OK

Enable Peer Exchange: OK

Limit local peer bandwidth: OFF

Protocol Encryption:

Outgoing is Enabled. Allow incoming legacy connections: OK

jewlisheaven: Well, see for yourself... this is what I got.. is now downloading good, but upload is really bad... I just can't have both alright . When I used my modem, I always had good download speed and good upload speed. Upload speed is stable but low and download speed is pretty unstable and kinda medium...

http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/2189/hgfzx2.jpg

PS: And the yellow icon stills there.. can't put it green, but port is green and opened.

[jewelisheaven]

err no matter your line speed... any of the professional support would tell you your router is incapable of handling that many connections.

upload slots 3? Limit it to 1 and you can run more concurrent torrents... Peers per torrent.. 50 is overkill. From max connections I gather you only run 2 at a time? An alternative to 3 is switch to 1 and enable the < 90% box. That will auto-scale based upon peer download.

If you are pushing your upload too high the download will suffer due to lack of speed in receiving SYN/ACK requests (as I believe they're called)

Try lowering the max upload by 10% and see if that helps.. Continuing until you notice a "Flat-Line" upload in Speed tab. That will tell you sustained upload while downloading.

As expected from the setting in Connection you can usually set that higher when ONLY seeding...

After looking at your pic, I presume you are on XX/192 kpbs? IF the above settings were from ctrl-G forgive me, but I think the whole logic there is ... different than I run my ut, so take my suggestion as you like, but that's my opinion.

[Hydro_PT]

Thanks a lot for all your help, really .

I did what you suggest there... put 1 in upload slots and in peers per torrent I put 30. I checked < 90% box.

In Connection I put maximum upload rate in 15, but it's too slow, don't you think? I don't know...

I have now a kind of stable upload line, but it's too low upload speed, like 5 kB/s.

Well my ISP claims my net is 3 MB (or 300 kB/s), and I usually download even more than that, near 400. My settings are current settings, but I can try out XX/384 kbps.

Both download and upload are really low, around 5 kB/s for download and 7 kB/s for upload right now... I don't know what do to more .

----------- BIG EDIT and UPDATE ------------

OMFG I'm so stupid... sh*t :S. I just remembered to check something on my firewall (I use McAfee). I had put on Firewall Security Level this:

"Stealth: The firewall blocks all inbound network connections, completely hiding your computer on the Internet and bla bla bla."

I just put Tight level and turned on UTorrent and guess what? The yellow icon just turned green in 5 seconds, amazing . Download speed is good, upload speed is good, I just hope it keeps that way. I'll edit my post in 15 minutes to tell if it hangs on or not. And tomorrow morning I'll see how much I downloaded the entire night. Damn, why I didn't remembered to check that

---------- 15 minutes edit -----------

Well speed is getting some peaks...was downloading at 120 and then just dropped to 60 and until the end it was always jumping from 50 to 40 then back to 50... any way to improve this?

Now I'm trying with another torrent, which I'll let the entire night (6 hours to be more precise) and right now speed is always between 38 and 40, both download and upload... (I'll keep Speed table on, updating every 5 minutes )