tacomadness Posted April 21, 2008 Report Share Posted April 21, 2008 Okay. I apologize in advance if my post seems a bit..er..passionate, I am getting infuriated with this problem.Alright so he's the deal, I just finished installing Vista x64 last night and today I wanted to do some torrenting (Yes, legal torrents.) I installed the latest utorrent client, and went to the speed guide to double check my ports were open. They "weren't" so I opened them on my router (I've never had to with XP) and disabled windows firewall. The ports are still "closed". Hm. I opened them everywhere, disabled windows firewall, added the ports and utorrent to the firewall exception list (even though its off). No matter what I do, I can't get my ports opened. My ISP does not limit BT traffic or P2P networks in anyway either. On xp x32 I can pull down 500KBps while uploading at 70KBps, on vista Its abysmal.I can't figure it out at all. No matter what I do, ports remain closed. (And I haven't even delved into the nightmare of edited tcpip.sys yet for vista) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted April 21, 2008 Report Share Posted April 21, 2008 What model router? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted April 21, 2008 Report Share Posted April 21, 2008 Hrm. What modem are you using? What router? What firewall (if any, besides Windows Firewall)? Have you set a static IP up for your computer outside of the router's DHCP range? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tacomadness Posted April 21, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2008 WRT54G Router, modem is just the cable modem sent by charter, firewalls are all disabled (I don't use any, and have Vista's disabled.) I have my IP set to get via DHCP (Which I did on Xp and utorrent worked flawlessly) I have also tried hard reset/power cycling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted April 21, 2008 Report Share Posted April 21, 2008 Having your IP set via DHCP is almost definitely a problem with that router... Do set a static IP up for your computer outside of the router's DHCP range, as Linksys routers are known to ignore port forwarding for IPs within their DHCP range (forwarding to a dynamic IP isn't the most logical thing in the world, after all ). After you set a static IP up, forward the port to the new IP.If that doesn't help, do tell us what modem model you're using. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tacomadness Posted April 21, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2008 Hooray! Static IP worked =DNow...onto my second question (lol) Exactly what do I need to do to windows vista x64 to get decent torrent speeds, (Im pretty sure it still has the 10 concurrent connection limit) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted April 21, 2008 Report Share Posted April 21, 2008 Yes, it still has the 10 half-open connection limit (not concurrent -- that's not limited by anything but your network hardware's capabilities). You might want to consider lowering net.max_halfopen to 4 or 2. Increasing the TCPIP.sys limit isn't advisable (and isn't necessary for most users anyhow).Running the Speed Guide is more-or-less all you need to do (alongside the net.max_halfopen thing).http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/index.htmlHow does a torrent from here run? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tacomadness Posted April 21, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2008 Yeah, those torrents run great. Okay, guess my problems solved. Thanks so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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