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Suddenly I'm not connectable!


pwantzel

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uTorrent (1.8.5, WinXP SP3) has been working fine for me for a long time. Suddenly, yesterday, Windows Update installed an Internet Explorer 8 update and the computer rebooted. After that, the icon on the bottom of the uTorrent screen turned red (not connectable) and although torrents still ruin, the uploads go very slowly, which I understand is a symptom of not being connectable. The port-forward test (in uTorrent) fails.

I rebooted. I reinstalled uTorrent. I removed Internet Explorer. I reset the port#, the IP address, and reset the router to the new ones several times. Nothing has helped. I installed uTorrent on another computer, with a different port, and this runs fine.

EDIT: I'm running Norton Internet Security 2009. I followed the instructions in the setup section here for it. No change.

EDIT2: I tried System Restore to before the Windows Update. It failed (did not restore). But I've never had any luck with System Restore before, so I'm not surprised,

Any ideas or suggestions?

EDIT3: Success! When the computer restarted after the failed System Restore, I've got my green check mark back, and the port forward test works! And torrents are running like normal. I wonder if maybe the System Restore did indeed restore something, even though it indicated it hadn't??

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This happened to me again today. After a Windows Update (to Internet Explorer) I was suddenly no longer connectable (Red icon in uTorrent, poor upload performance). I did a System Restore, it (apparently) failed, but afterwords (and another reboot) I have a green icon again.

From reading other posts here, I am not the only one having port forwarding problems recently. Anyone have any idea what's going on, and what I should do about it?

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