Blocked ports, even though I forwarded it.

[mmslax2]

Hi guys, I've been a long time user of Utorrent, and I really like the program, I haven't used it in a couple months since I have reformatted. Recently I got a linkysys WRT54GS Wireless router. I also have an Ambit modem that RoadRunner supplied me, now I go to forward my port 21209 use my static ip and I enable it. I then click save settings, and I go to the utorrent site to see if its opened, it is not. So I am wondering what is wrong, I'm getting like 3.5kb/s download speeds on a highly seeded prog. If I try my laptop I am getting like 65 kb/s, but I am still getting a yellow triangle, can I get any information on what I need to do to get the yellow triangle to go away, and get as high as possible dl, and ul speeds possible, I have a 5mb down

[jewelisheaven]

Have you checked an alternate site like http://www.canyouseeme.org? Testing your download maximum sustained is a good idea. Use the OpenOffice or Slackware torrents mentioned in the How-To and report your results if you would like further advice. It is likely that your ISP puts you on a shaping profile during different times.

[mmslax2]

well I was talking to my IT buddy, and he said that since my modem has a 4 port connection capability, he said it could try to be acting like a router, even though I have my real linksys router acting like one. I tried slackware and I'm getting like 5.0 kb/s

[jewelisheaven]

He may be right. See if the modem can go into "bridge mode".

[mmslax2]

ok, would I have to go inside of it? or would I do it in network connections?

[jewelisheaven]

Err.. to alter the settings of the modem you'll have to login to it, or at the very least connect to it via HTTP. Try 192.168.100.1 ... or other private reserved IPs.

[mmslax2]

I went ahead, its a shit modem, no way to bridge it

[jewelisheaven]

Try reversing the setup. Try to set Linksys to "bridge mode" and forward the ports in the modem.

[Ultima]

That would make the Linksys entirely worthless, and you might as well pull it off the network setup to begin with

[mmslax2]

yeah this ambit router cant forward ports, its just shit.

[Ultima]

Try connecting your computer directly to the modem (bypassing the router). Does the problem persist?

[jewelisheaven]

If the modem is a router... you only need 1 router to be hardware firewalled.

[zploek]

Hi, I have the same problem as the OP, I guess.

1. The light is yellow and

2. the port checkers tell me they don't see my port as open

HOWEVER, I've forwarded my ports on my modem. I am sure that I've done this correctly, so kindly go from there.

What else, besides forwarding, can I do to open my ports?

CanYouSeeMe.org - Open Port Check Tool tells me:

Error: I could not see your service on xx.xxx.xxx.xx on port (55641)

Reason: No route to host

My OS is winxp, my modem is Wanadoo Livebox, my download speed here in Europe is around 14450 KB/s, 3500 KB/s for Faroeor islands, and 8000 KB/s for California, 4000 for New Zealand, or something like that.

Maximum upload is around 850 KB/s here in Holland.

Any help would be great, thanks!

Until a few days ago, I had quite highspeeds, like 800-900 KB/s on a popular torrent, so it can't be that ...

I've changed the settings in my coomodo firewall according to this post by Utima mod.

http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=7862

I've changed my Local IP-adres from 192.168.1.10 to 192.168.1.11

This didn't seem to help so far, but maybe someone has an idea about this?

[jewelisheaven]

If the port is open and clear so people can connect to you, i.e. a green network status light in uT... the canyouseeme.org should say Success: I can see your service on x.x.x.x on port (12349) / Your ISP is not blocking port 12349. Since this is not the case, there IS a problem. Perhaps my post about isolation which is only partially related to your post may point out a step you missed? I do have to ask a question though... Are the numbers for your "popular" torrent from uT? Because in that case the those are the only correct units. Speed tests are measured in Kbps. Windows and uT uses KiBps. Though you may only see a "b" vs. "B" difference, kurahashi-san here would tell you that's a big deal. There are 8 bits in 1 Byte, hence the difference.

[zploek]

I know the diff between KB and kb. I know that the first thing you guys do is check whether askers now this. Let me put it like this: popular downloads like episodes Bionic Woman (I know, I know, who knew?) of 350 MB, I got those in 30 mins, Threshold even in under 22 mins. And please don't ask if those were 120 MB or whatever, they were regular sized 350's.

It kinda behoves the staff NOT to assume askers are ALL morons. :? I know that's a very hard thing to do, but at the same time we won't assume you're ALL arrogant know-it-alls, even though that's almost as hard. ;)

Since the light became yellow, I've only had reasonable speeds on the ubuntu.iso (advised here like a test thing), like around 100 kBs.

The only thing which comes to mind, is since a lot of my settings, and file-associations are now screwed up, in the sense that seemed to have reverted to default values, is that Corel took "revenge" on me for uninstalling their crap product. yeah, funny, but no really. Corel comes bundled with Dell.

Don't ask me how, but all I know is that I was uninstalling that and afterwards my speeds sucked and the light went yellow.

Now, there seems to be a 2nd complication:

I think my ports were NEVER forwarded, since they were not forwarded for Shareaza, ever. Yet, the light was GREEN, speeds were high, even for Shareaza (like 50 KB/s individually).

So. the speculative conclusion from this seems to be: unforwarded ports have nothing to do with either green lights or speeds.

any ideas?

[DreadWingKnight]

unforwarded ports have nothing to do with either green lights or speeds.

Wrong on both counts.

The green light in the status bar REQUIRES a forwarded and open port in order to happen. Period. There is no room for discussion on this part of the topic.

You get better speeds by accepting incoming connections because you are being perceived as a benefit to the swarm rather than a hindrance.

Ports not forwarded manually isn't the same as ports not forwarded at all, and it sounds like some UPnP related functions might have gotten broken somewhere along the way.

[jewelisheaven]

zploek why can't you stick to one thread?

[zploek]

Okay I made two changes and so far they seem to work:

a. I changed my modems settings such that my local ip is 192.168.1.12 instead of 192.168.1.10

b. I changed the ports back from 55461 to 21486 as it had been,

I also checked the ports in IE instead of Firefox, and there they were green!

Odd, huh?

Now, later, after rebooting, port checking in firefox is also green. it's erratic, sometimes it still gives a red, but sometimes not.

All the while though, after making those 2 changes, utorrent gave a green icon, instead of yellow, and well seeded torrs came in at high speeds. 300 kB

So, for a very long time, when my ports were actually forwarded, because of Firefox, i thought they were not. I never thought the day would come that IE was actually better at something than Firefox, but there you go.

If anyone has any clue as to why that is, please let me know.

I changed the local ip for all my progs, the connection test for Shareaza failed on the TCP, but passed on the UDP, and they completely failed on Soulseek, but I think Soulseek just uses tcp.

Oh, and DWK, I understand the theory behind it all, that a green light in uTor means that the port was forwarded and all that, and I'm not at all saying that you were wrong, but you clearly didn't think about browser error.

So don't blame me for thinking that the two, the port check test and the green light in uTor were unrelated. A little open mindedness, flexibility goes a long way. I have no reason to lie to you or whatever, I'm just reporting what I see.

[jewelisheaven]

Keep in mind: Not all port checkers are created equal. I regularly use http://www.canyouseeme.org and http://www.utorrent.com/testport.php?port=YOURPORTNUMBER and https://www.grc.com/x/portprobe=YOURPORTNUMBER to test open ports.

[zploek]

Please make absolutely sure that PeerGuardian2 or Protowall is allowing utorrent.com (72.20.34.145) in either of those programs. Those of you using ipfilter.dat should make sure the list does not include the website's IP. After making sure of this, re-run this test by refreshing the page (F5).

Can anyone tell how to do that in peerg?

Am glad to report that IE now equally sucks like Firefox:

I still got a green light in uTorrent, but both browsers report that my ports are not forwarded, on all four port checkers. Download speeds are high, like 300 KBs, which is high for me, like 25 mins per tvepisode.

http://home.no.net/tgrumpy/ct/dex.php?port=xxxxx〈=en&test=1&lto=1

Anyway, neither do the ports 80 and 8080 seem open on those port checkers, although I'm not sure they can check those ports. Obviously, those ports ARE open! :)

(if you have to ask why ... then I know who to ask no more )

I've turned of all firewalls and kaspersky too.

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Update:

I've turned PeerG off, and now I have TCP access to my Shareaza port, but no UDP access.

But now, whenever I use UT, i can't browse no more ... The lights still green and the speeds are high, but still:

http://www.grc.com tells me:

Unknown Protocol for this port Unknown Application for this port

http://www.canyouseeme.org/ tells me:

Error: I could not see your service on xx.xxx.|||.|| on port (21456)

Reason: Connection refused

http://www.utorrent.com tells me:

Error! Port 21456 does not appear to be open.

my IP situation, after cmd /k ipconfig /all

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : HAL9000

Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :

Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : broadcast

IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : Yes

WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : Yes

Ethernet-adapter LAN-Connection:

Connection spec. DNS-suffix:

Intel® PRO/100 VE Network Connection

Physical Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 00-19-7E-FF-0D-E0

DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes

Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

IP-address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.12

Subnetmask. . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

Stand gateway. . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1

DHCP-server . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1

DNS-servers . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1

if that is of any use.

tnx a heap!!