spoonbender Posted December 1, 2008 Report Share Posted December 1, 2008 Hi,I`m using the current beta of utorrent. I`m running an intel imac current model and have cable internet and then my airport extreme basestation. I`m connected to it via ethernet cable. Sometimes my status light goes from green to yellow, and stays yellow for hours on end. What I find helps is to stop the torrent and quit and restart utorrent, or sometimes randomizing the port also helps. I also enabled pnp-nat in my basestation and allowed incoming connections in my firewall as well as little snitch. So I guess I`m really not sure why I go from green to yellow. Right now I`m downloading a rather large file and I have 17 of 39 seeds coming in. Its kind of one of those things, when its working its great, when it slows to a crawl the years of download time pile up. One nice thing is, it doesnt affect anyone else in the house for their internet usage. I know this probably doesnt help much. Ive tried setting up a static ip address and doing proper port forwarding via the basestation setup. It really just didnt work. So I guess Im doing something wrong here. Any help and or advice is always appreciated.Thanks.S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TG Posted December 1, 2008 Report Share Posted December 1, 2008 it has been noted that people have been having issues with the Airport base station. I wonder why- have you forwarded your port on you modem? Because it needs to be forwarded on both end otherwise it wont work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spoonbender Posted December 1, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 1, 2008 Hi TG,Thats one thing I`ve been trying to figure out how to do. I`ve found several tutorials on the internet on exactly how to do this. My problem is it simply is not working for me. I`m quite sure I`m doing something wrong. Naturally I have no idea what. So, no I haven`t. If you can give me a step by step explanation, I`m more than happy to try. This way we can trouble shoot and help everyone else thats having the same problem.Thanks.S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TG Posted December 1, 2008 Report Share Posted December 1, 2008 Ok give me your modem name and model number?btw- http://portforward.com/ this web site is really good it has instructions nearly for all modem types Have a look there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maarut Posted December 2, 2008 Report Share Posted December 2, 2008 TG, I don't understand why you would need to set up port forwarding on the modem. Maybe things are different in the US, but in the UK the modem is (AFAICT) simply a device that translates the signals in the coaxial cable to signals routers and other network devices understand. Also, your theory doesn't hold, since the status light is green to begin with, but later on turns yellow, suggesting that the forwarding works for at least a little while.I have the exact same issue and I've found that once the binding for the port has expired, µtorrent won't re-establish the binding. I guess this is something for the devs to look into. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spoonbender Posted December 2, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 2, 2008 Hi TG,Modem name Mortorola surfboardModel number SB5120I checked the website portforward and the modem I have is not listed. Anyways lets continue.Thanks much.S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelittlefire Posted December 2, 2008 Report Share Posted December 2, 2008 UPnP/NAT-PMP is attempted every 20 minutes in the windows version. I guess it's possible this isn't in the current version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TG Posted December 3, 2008 Report Share Posted December 3, 2008 spoonbender: have a look at this http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/Port-Forwarding-Motorola-SB5120-t152337.htmlIt doesn't allow it, sorry get a different modem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maarut Posted December 3, 2008 Report Share Posted December 3, 2008 TG, my interpretation of your link is that modems as a rule don't do port forwarding, it is the job of the router. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TG Posted December 4, 2008 Report Share Posted December 4, 2008 Ah sorry Cable modems are diff to ADSL2+ ones, Um your modem will pass all trafic through it so you need to set up a static IP to the airport, you can either set DHCP to reserve 1 for your computer or completely disable DHCP on your airport.This will alow the port fowarding rules to only apply to 1 computer.Make sure you have allowed utorrent in the MAC OS X Firewall and in the Airport Firewall as well.Hopw this helpsTim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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