jonnyD Posted December 22, 2007 Report Share Posted December 22, 2007 I thought that once I put in the firewall policy, everything would be fine with no interruptions to uTorrent. But my my firewall pops up occasionally and asks for me to allow uTorrent. When this happens, the torrents that I'm downloading slow down or stop. Why does this keep happening? (firewall version:MsAfee DesktopFirewall 8.5) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewelisheaven Posted December 22, 2007 Report Share Posted December 22, 2007 ... because it doesn't listen to you when you tell it "allow" all traffic from uT to connect to the internet?In all honesty if you are behind a hardware firewall, software firewalls have more tendency to do harm than good. Check around on the forum and see what other users have reported. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonnyD Posted December 22, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2007 I don not understand your making a distinction between "hardware firewall" and a "software firewall". What do you mean? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewelisheaven Posted December 23, 2007 Report Share Posted December 23, 2007 Well a firewall is something which protects you from unwanted traffic, right? A common implementation of a hardware firewall home-users have experience with is a router. Most incorporate a rather stringent BLOCK ALL but what I tell you philosophy. Because of this, you only get traffic incoming you know about ahead of time.On the other hand, software firewalls, such as Windows Firewall in XP SP2 provide the same functionality. Therefore there's no need to have BOTH if you are behind a router. Does that make sense? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonnyD Posted December 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2007 The software firewall I use, as mentioned earlier, is McAfee DEsktop Firewall 8.5I also have a cable modem. Is that the same thing as a router? Does the cable modem have firewall capabilities I am unaware of? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewelisheaven Posted December 23, 2007 Report Share Posted December 23, 2007 I know, but if the firewall isn't keeping the settings :/ Check out your modem's setup: One of the usual addresses is 192.168.100.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonnyD Posted December 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2007 What does that mean: check out my modem's setup? What are the steps; I'm not as savy as you think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewelisheaven Posted December 23, 2007 Report Share Posted December 23, 2007 If the ISP told you it was a modem, I doubt it would be anything otherwise, BUT you should check for yourself. Usually it has the IP address 192.168.100.1 .Go there in your web browser, to be sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonnyD Posted December 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2007 Go where? "Usually it has the IP address 192.168.100.1" What is "it"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewelisheaven Posted December 23, 2007 Report Share Posted December 23, 2007 The modem. Since you are directly getting your IP from the modem, it won't have an IP like 192.168.0.1 (usually). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonnyD Posted December 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2007 Sorry for my obtuseness: you said go to the modem with my web browser - how do I do that? And once I find out what the IP address is, what does it mean? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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