karleenpg Posted November 25, 2008 Report Share Posted November 25, 2008 Hi there, I am new to this forum and could use some assistance. I am running Vista 32 bit, Utorrent 1.8.1 and have Norton Antivirus 2008. Dlink router wbr310 and I connect directly to the router, not wireless. Not sure what other info you need...When utorrent is running, I have either a yellow or red flag, once in a while it goes green, but seldom. This did not happen before I had to have my laptop fixed because of a harddrive issue. I got the laptop back, reinstalled everything and now this is going on. I know for certain that the port (6881) is open and forwarded properly, if I shut norton auto protect down, it doesn't change anything. Same thing applies to windows defender, whether I have it enabled or disabled, no difference. Upload speed is almost nil and downloads are a sad speed. When the signal turns green, download speeds fly, then it changes colour again. I have gone through Norton and windows defender one at a time and tried to troubleshoot to see if there is any change when I change this setting or that setting...no luck.I never had this problem with the older version of utorr that was on the laptop prior to having the warranty work done.Can anyone offer suggestions? I am at my wits end...ThanksI am still hoping for some help, today I found that even with a red flag on utorrent while at work...I still downloaded and connected to more peers than here at home! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted November 27, 2008 Report Share Posted November 27, 2008 Your workplace is probably firewalled if you cannot get a static internet ip.Uninstalling Norton completely would be necessary to rule it out.It's best to NOT use ports 6881-6999 for uTorrent. Even if your ISP doesn't cripple traffic on those ports, other ISPs do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karleenpg Posted November 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 27, 2008 Can I just pick any port I want for utorrent, or is there specific ones?Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moogly Posted November 27, 2008 Report Share Posted November 27, 2008 Use port >10000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted November 27, 2008 Report Share Posted November 27, 2008 Yes, you can pick nearly any port between 10000-65534...even lower is possible as well, but the odds of trying to use a port that's also used by something else goes way up with ports below 5000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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