erc Posted August 9, 2008 Report Share Posted August 9, 2008 Linksys router with Tomoato 1.21 firmware.Windows Vista Business 64bitI've got the yellow icon. Here's what I've tried in order.1. forwarded the proper port to my internal IP address2. stuck myself in the DMZ3. turned off windows firewall4. removed the router from the equation totally, and plugged directly into the modemStill the port is blocked according to the handy utility on this website and the icon remains yellow.I'm using the latest version of AVG Free for a virus scanner, which I'm pretty sure doesn't have its own firewall software.I've never had a problem with port forwarding before, but I moved to the boonies a year ago and went without internet access until about a month ago when I signed up for wireless internet with an ISP that I have no previous experience with.What could I be missing? Could my ISP be blocking the ports? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted August 9, 2008 Report Share Posted August 9, 2008 Wireless ISPs tend to put you behind a LAN. You don't get a real IP, so you can never forward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erc Posted August 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 9, 2008 Eww. That might also explain why Google's complaining about automated searching from my IP address and making me type in a CAPTCHA box for every search. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPants Posted August 11, 2008 Report Share Posted August 11, 2008 "Wireless ISPs tend to put you behind a LAN. You don't get a real IP, so you can never forward."Is there a way to test this? I have a new wireless ISP - mobi. I don't use a router on my end. I don't think my utorrent indicator started out (a few days ago) with the red icon, but I haven't seen anything other than red or yellow for most of the time I've had the wireless ISP. Still, OpenOffice comes in at maybe 130kbps - is there a reason that wouldn't be an indication of 'real' speed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted August 11, 2008 Report Share Posted August 11, 2008 Check the router's WAN IP address... What is it? YYY.*.*.ZZZ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPants Posted August 11, 2008 Report Share Posted August 11, 2008 Ultima - is that *MY* IP address? Otherwise, I don't have a clue as to how I would know. If my IP address, then do I take your "YYY.*.*.ZZZ" to mean only the all-cap 'digits' are of consequence?--ds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted August 11, 2008 Report Share Posted August 11, 2008 Check your router's status page. See what IP that it obtained from the modem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPants Posted August 11, 2008 Report Share Posted August 11, 2008 Ultima -"my router?" I don't have a router (see my post above). I thought you were talking about somehow checking a router on the /ISP's/ end. I have an EV-DO wireless connection - nothing more...except that red icon...I definitely didn't have the red icon before, with my Sprint EV-DO (cardbus air card), but that had to go back in order for me to go with a USB-connection air card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted August 11, 2008 Report Share Posted August 11, 2008 You don't get a real IP with Ev-DO, or any wireless connection. You can never forward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPants Posted August 11, 2008 Report Share Posted August 11, 2008 Well, for whatever reason, this 'red icon' thing is new - I've had /only/ a wireless connection for about 10 months now (it was a Sprint EV-DO until three days ago). Only since starting the new wireless (Mobi) service have I had the red icon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted August 12, 2008 Report Share Posted August 12, 2008 Well, I guess Sprint does give real IPs and Mobi doesn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPants Posted November 7, 2008 Report Share Posted November 7, 2008 just checking in again on this - seems my downloads have become wildly irregular in speed. Same cheap-ass connection as before: I have an EV-DO (wireless) connection that turns out not to give me a real IP address. So is there no way to improve performance without changing isp? To illustrate, I see one popular download with a swarm of seeds that looks like this:0(7797)So... there are 7797 or so potential connections there, and yet I get.../none/? I don't get it. Some much-smaller swarms will give me tolerable d/l speed. What's the download-speed:swarm-size relationship based on, or am I oversimplifying or misunderstanding this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted November 7, 2008 Report Share Posted November 7, 2008 Are you connected to any peers at all?What is the tracker status for that torrent? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPants Posted November 7, 2008 Report Share Posted November 7, 2008 Seeds Peers0(8062) and 2(4621) currently. Status is [F]Downloading. I have an intermittent download speed of 0.1kB/s, usually 0kB/s. Yet somehow I do have 75% of this 800MB file downloaded, from irregular connection since 10/24, so it wasn't always this slow. All my downloads seem to go through this weird speed variation or inconsistency.<bump...nothing new here?> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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