crazyjo Posted February 12, 2009 Report Share Posted February 12, 2009 1.8.1 worked fine.... upgraded to 1.8.2 and now I can't get a single thing to download. Keeps saying my port is not open even though I have utorrent as an allowed program under the firewall... No this is not a port forwarding issue but more like a Utorrent program issue. I can get 100X time faster speeds using flashget as a downloader.The design team really put out a crapper this time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted February 12, 2009 Report Share Posted February 12, 2009 Yes, and that explains why few other users are having port forwarding issues. Let's get this straight: real port forwarding issues are not caused by µTorrent. Ports are controlled by the firewall, the OS, or the network hardware (read: outside of µTorrent's control).Did you remove the firewall rules and recreate them as the autoupdater suggests, and as we always suggest on the forums? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fogkeebler Posted February 13, 2009 Report Share Posted February 13, 2009 For what its worth, I had Utorrent do the same things to me. My firewall was off and my port was forwarded in my router. Utorrent still got a red skittle and had issues downloading. Having utorrent check the port it came back as open, So i was like what gives.When i took the time to go through the forums i found a nice little program that checks all the ports that are IN USE. There it was, my open port being used by windows, i changed the port in my router and in utorrent; magic happened and i was able to get a green skittle and download.The latest version of utorrent works great with both windows XP and windows 7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted February 13, 2009 Report Share Posted February 13, 2009 If the OS is hogging the port, then it's probably because it hasn't properly released the port when µTorrent exited to replace the executable, in which case a system restart should clear that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddintr Posted February 17, 2009 Report Share Posted February 17, 2009 @fogkeebler: What is that nice little program, could you please let me know. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fogkeebler Posted February 18, 2009 Report Share Posted February 18, 2009 TCPView from sysinternals.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted February 19, 2009 Report Share Posted February 19, 2009 fogkeebler,What had your ports in use? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fogkeebler Posted February 19, 2009 Report Share Posted February 19, 2009 To be honest i don't remember what it was that had them tied up. I am using the new windows 7 and it was something windows was doing that tied up the port. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted February 19, 2009 Report Share Posted February 19, 2009 So windows is grabbing "random" ports and using them for whatever programs it has running in the background...presumably making internet connections?That sounds insecure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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