Port connection problems

[cheech76]

Any help would be much appreciated!!

For some reason, my uTorrent is telling me "Not connectable, a firewall/router is is limiting your network traffic. You need to open up a port so others can connect to you."

I went to the uTorrent help page and tried quite a few things, but to no avail.

-Disabled DHT - network

new torrents

-Disable UPnP

-Changed ports about a dozen or so times

-Rebooting after changes

And nothing has happened to fix my problem. When I reboot, it is connectable for about 15 seconds, then the warning shows up again. I am still able to download torrents, but the connection is really slow on some. I have been trying to download this one torrent that is 2.51Gb for 50 hours now and it's only at 61.6%. Might be because it is a new torrent...not sure. I'm obviously new to this torrent thing. Some torrents, about 9MB, I download in about 1 min.

Also, I am a member at bitme.org and it shows that I am seeding 2 torrents.

Like I said at the top, any help would be great!!

Thanks

[ajones81]

Ctrl+G, do a port check. If the port's not open, you need to port forward properly. Find your router at http://portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/routerindex.htm and follow the instructions to forward a port for uTorrent. Then port check again to confirm.

P.S. Unless you're sure UPnP doesn't work for you, I suggest you keep it enabled.

P.P.S. What firewall/antivirus/other security software do you have? Do they all have rules for allowing uTorrent through? Maybe your modem/router has a hardware firewall as well? Do check that possibility out.

[cheech76]

Thanks for the info.

I tried what you suggested, and it seems not to work.

I have a connection, because I am uploading more than I am downloading....but i think that's mainly to do with the poorly seeded torrent.

I re-enabled UPnP, then rebooted...

is there another step I could take?

I noticed something though...when I tried to check to see if the port was being forwarded or not, it was checking it on a totally different IP address than what my router IP address is. Does that have something to do with it??

Cheech

[jewelisheaven]

Uploading more than you download... OK annoying but sometimes unavoidable due to swarm availability. Are you seeing lots of "U" and no "D" but instead "S" or "K" flags under the Peers tab?

Since you have a router, essentially there are two "zones" being created: the LAN zone between your router and you, and the WAN (aka internet) zone between the router and the rest of the world. Your ISP gives you a WAN IP address, which most certainly won't match the INTERNAL LAN IP address it haves. Questions?

[cheech76]

i understand what you are saying, yes.

to forward a port properly, do i need to do something with both of these addresses to do that? what i am asking is, is there a place where i have to add my LAN IP address as well as my WAN IP address to forward a port and make this work?

another thing too, if it says that I am not connectable, how am i uploading and downloading??

[jewelisheaven]

No, the forwarding is done at the router (the point where both zones merge). You are essentially telling the router: "Hey, Look, I'm your master, and I'm on this IP (LAN IP) and I want you to route ALL TRAFFIC on this port to my IP"

You should read through Shad0w's spiffy paper http://bt.degreez.net/firewalled.html "You are not connectable" means you cannot accept incoming connections.

[cheech76]

i understand what it means now, thank you.

what can i do now to open a port?

[jewelisheaven]

3rd link on the "Guides" page, and the Troubleshooting How-To is labelled "How-To". Ajones81 also linked you to the oft-referenced portforward.com pages.

[cheech76]

Well, now i'm in a worse place than I was before.

I tried what Ajones81 mentioned right after it was posted...i still had the connection problem....then i tried what you mentioned jewel, and now i cant even get a connection. I cant download or upload....i'm not blaming anyone, i just wish i could get this thing to work properly.

any more suggestions....anyone?

[jewelisheaven]

OK, so are you registering as correctly forwarded (green check)? If you click on the Peers tab do the peers show up with "I" flag?

How do you know it won't give you a connection? Where is the error message and what does it say? (tracker status on General, or status column in main torrent pane)

[cheech76]

no...it's a yellow triangle with an !

most of the flags are: D, UDO, DS

i have since re-installed it, tried to forward my port, but it still says error...

i've been reading other posts and it seems that quite a few people are having the same problem as I.

when i said that i wasnt getting a connection at all, it had the red box beside the name of the torrent. since i re-installed it, it seems to be able to down and up load again, but now I cant get the files i already have to re-seed them..it wants to download them again...

i'm so frustrated!!

I know i'm new to this but I catch on to things very quickly...

[jewelisheaven]

If you know you already have it, stop the torrent, right click, go to advanced and change download location. Be SURE you are clicking on the right FILE or FOLDER. After that pressing start will start the "checking" phase. If you want to make sure before you START you can right click, force recheck yourself. But uT will recheck the files you change the path to prior to starting downloading.

[cheech76]

ok...today is a bit different.

i downloaded the torrent i wanted, but a green check still hasnt appeared. it's the yellow triangle with the ! in it.

Better then yesturday with the red one.

My port is still telling me that there is an error. I have tried everything in this thread, and followed some directions in other threads in this forum....still no improvement.

Just out of curiousity...does it have something to do with compatibility issues with Vista? If so, is there a service pack somewhere to fix this?

not sure what else to try here....All in all, what I really want is to have a good ratio....

[jewelisheaven]

The only benefit to correctly forwarding your port is to allow unforwarded or permanently blocked people to conenct to you (via inbound connections) which helps considerably on small swarms. Being forwarded does not help at all (or shouldn't have any effect) with your ratio. If the site shows dissonance with your figures you should ask them whether they don't note uploaded prior to event=stopped or if they are showing any reporting errors from you. Thanks for being patient and working with the help provided.

It's unfortunate things don't just work, but logical and thorough troubleshooting should resolve it (I prefer starting at one end and methodically plodding until I hit the other end). I think there may be a problem with either or both of your networking equipment regarding the inability to keep the green checkmark.

If you are able to use UPnP on your router then you don't need manual forwarding.

If you have multiple devices between your computer and your ISP: i.e. ISP -> modem -> router -> computers... it could be your ISP's modem has a router built-in firewall function (router as well) which means if you can configure IT (router+modem) you should try putting your router (which you previously forwarded) into "bridge mode". If to the contrary you can configure the MODEM's router into bridge mode, and keep your own router's forwarding rules intact that is the opposite option.

I do have an additional question since you mention vista, have you tried adding in the vista netsh options mentioned in Ultima's How-To??