ZoneAlarm and utorrent.

[Martin Levac]

Greetings,

I found out that ZA (ver 3.7.143) blocks many outgoing connections by utorrent when ZA (Firewall>Main>Internet Zone Security) is set to HIGH. I noticed a whole buttload of utorrent log entries being written faster than I could read them. I figured it was working against me since utorrent was trying to make legitimate connections to other peers. I set it to MED and the log entries stopped being so hyper active and utorrent got to work more efficiently by making about double the number of connections I was getting before. The improvement is proportional to the swarm size, the larger the swarm, the better the improvement.

ML

[1c3d0g]

Yes, ZoneAlarm has some considerable issues with P2P programs in general.

[winMX_67]

Hmmmm..why are you useing such an old version? Im going to check to see if this happends to me. Im useing 6.1.737

EDIT: next to internet zone click custom and then scroll down to allow outgoing tcp ports and allow utorrents port. Then set it back to high and see if it helps.

[Ultima]

The older versions of ZoneAlarm had many issues with P2P applications, but version 6.x has been a big improvement, and a lot of people are having no problems with it any more (for the record, I've never had any problem with any version of ZoneAlarm... maybe I'm setting it up correctly?)

[Martin Levac]

Using older version because I don't check for updates often enough, I guess. I'll see if the latest will allow utorrent all ougoing connections even if it's set to HIGH.

ML