fitty1334 Posted April 22, 2009 Report Share Posted April 22, 2009 Hey everyone,I'm a new user of BitTorrent and I'm having some issues.I've been reading and searching through the forum but can't seem to find any solutions. When I start BitTorrent, everything seems OK, but it permanently says "Checking for Firewall" in the bottom right hand corner and the torrents don't begin to download.It doesn't matter how long I leave it, it always says this.Just for some background info, I'm living on campus at Uni, but there are no proxies etc set up in my network settings. The internet is not particularly fast..approx 85KB/s.Hope someone has the answer for me!Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted April 22, 2009 Report Share Posted April 22, 2009 Not being behind a proxy doesn't mean you aren't behind the university network firewall. If you're behind someone else's connection, then unless they haven't disabled services like UPnP/NAT-PMP, there usually isn't any way for your port to be forwarded without the network administrator's consent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fitty1334 Posted April 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 22, 2009 OK, no worries, probably no way around it then.No idea who the administrator is and they're probably "blocking" for a reason.Thanks so much for you help, this problem will apply with all similar programs won't it?Damn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted April 22, 2009 Report Share Posted April 22, 2009 Yep, port forwarding is controlled by the person controlling the network router (which would be the administrator), so anything that requires port forwarding probably won't get it outside of NAT traversal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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