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uTorrent port forwarding doesn't work in Vista

mahamoti

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mahamoti Newbie

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I was previously running XP 32-bit and had port forwarding set up fine on my Router (a Netgear Rangemax, but it doesn't matter). Without changing any settings on my router I upgraded to Vista 64 bit, set a static IP and set the port in uTorrent so that they both match what was being forwarded by my router. Port forwarding does not work, even when I disable the windows firewall completely (I have exceptions in the firewall for uTorrent anyway) and run uTorrent as administrator. I've verified that the IPv4 address is correct in the network settings and double checked it many times. I've tried changing the IP address and ports (and correspondingly what the router is forwarding) several times (although that really shouldn't be necessary) and am not getting any luck. UDP and TCP are being forwarded in the router settings. I tried checking other options like Ipv6 and Upnp in uTorrent settings, but that didn't fix it.

As a sanity check, I created a virtual machine running 32-bit windows on my 64-bit Vista with bridged networking (VMware default settings) and installed uTorrent in the virtual machine. I had absolutely no problem getting port forwarding to work within the virtual machine, which confirms that it has something to do with Vista -- or with the way that uTorrent interacts with Vista.

Has anyone else successfully got port forwarding working with Vista?

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What internet security software do you have installed?

Have you created an exception in the windows firewall for uTorrent's listen port?

uTorrent has added exceptions to the windows firewall for TCP-in and UDP-in. I've also manually created exceptions for the ports I was forwarding. However, as I stated in the original post, the problem occurs when the firewall is completely disabled.

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Tentacle Newbie

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I seem to have the same problem.

I'm running windows vista 32x

I have norton internet security (but i have turn it off)

my router is d-link dir-615 (i have set up all the port forwards and static ips on my pc)

I keep getting that annoying yellow icon, and when testing using speed guide the port is never forwarded.

some times the icon will turn green when i restart utorrent, but it never stays green for long.

from what you have said its a problem with vista?

this is driving me crazy someone please help.

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Tentacle Newbie

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ok uninstalled norton. tested the port still not forwarded.

so it cant be a problem with the firewall. and my windows fire wall is off.

but for some reason that icon is now green, but tested it using using speed guide its still not forwarding the port.

why is it green and not forwarding?

edit correction lol its nolonger green it went back to that evil evil yellow.

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well here is the log

Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1

Scan saved at 3:10:09 AM, on 08/03/2009

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Tentacle Newbie

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i really think it might be vista now, cause my os is a newly installation with nothing on. and i just uninstalled all my fire wall.

and i'm sure i have all the port forwarding working. that speed guide port test have never passed

update. i've taken the router completely out of the equation (connected my pc directly to the modem)

and it seem to be forwarding the port correctly. and i dont see how i could of screw up the forwarding on my router any ideas?

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I had previously installed Comodo Internet Security, although the program was not running. I tried uninstalling Comodo and restarting, and now port forwarding is working. I think it was probably something Comodo did.

Something you didn't do more likely. EVERY firewall on a computer needs to be configured. The only one that stops blocking when turned off is the windows firewall.

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I have not read everybodys post as to what they use. Here is what I have and how I fixed it.

I'm running V Home Premium 32bit and Zone Alarm Free Firewall, It always blocks every UDP incoming connection, so my little 'thing' never goes green. All I do is disable ZA before starting a D/L then when its finished, reboot and ZA is re activated and it turns off windows firewall. My system is also with a Netgear Router that supports UPnP so a 'random port' can be selected on start-up.

P.S. If you use a firewall testing site, it only tests router firewall.

Happy Downloading.

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