Wired Computer receives fewer peers than Wireless Laptop

[zerohero]

Greets all,

I am having an interesting issue here. If I use my wired rig, which is running winxp with the half-open patch, and I try to download a popular torrent with high seeds (ie. 1000+), I may get 1 or 2 seeders but their flags are set to d (not willing to share with my client).

However if I connect to the same network via my laptop (wireless, vista, no half-open patch), and try to download the same file with high seeds, I am immediately presented with 30-40 seeds who are willing to share with me and it begins to immediately start downloading.

I have tried mirroring the same configurations between the utorrent laptop client and the wired rig client. Speed is not an issue here, just connecting to peers willing to share.

Any thoughts on this behaviour?

Zero

[paintball9]

Are both systems running the newest version of uTorrent? I doubt that's the main cause but for troubleshooting purposes its best to use the newest version.

[zerohero]

Yea, I forgot to put that bit of info in. They are both on 2.0.3.

[paintball9]

Have you port forwarded each computer individually? If they are both set to use the same port it is likely only the first will get connections.

[zerohero]

I am using UPnP and each port is different, thus the router automatically registers the ports in the firewall. The wired rig uses port randomization while the wireless laptop does not.

The wired rig has a software firewall. I've tried running utorrent with the firewall off for several hours, same issue.

As far as the router goes, the wired rig has a static dhcp ip address while the wireless does not. I also run zeroshell MLPPP from time to time on the wired rig, but the issue still exists.

Thanks for the input.

[paintball9]

Some firewalls will continue to interfere even when "off". You need to uninstall it to be sure it is not involved. You can also try port-forwarding instead of UPnP, it may provide better results seeing as you already have dhcp reservation set up.

[zerohero]

I fixed the problem on the wired rig by making utorrent only accept encypted/uTF connections. Works perfectly now. I noticed the laptop was receiving a lot of uTF peers, but the wired was not. And after enforcing it to be pure uTF, peers started coming out of the woods.