Port forwarding does not seem to be working

[Ultima]

That means it's a tracker issue that you're going to have to take up with the tracker administrators. Or first attempt to log into your account on the tracker, or something.

[hatiairbatu]

hi,

em...i think i have the same problem with port forwarding,i've just used utorrent for more then a week,and i've only downloaded 3 files...and then it goes all red.i cant download,upload anything...when i've try speed guide it's say "Checking port 38656 on 219.95.198.88...Error! Port 38656 does not appear to be open."even though ive try so many times trying to port forward according to the quick guide from portforward.com,and the problem is still there..and i also done the firewall thing..

i'm really a newbie,i've try d/l with torrent by watching some surfer at cafe cayber,have no one to guide..

pleasee

[George B]

I have a green button on utorrent for the first time since i got it 6 months ago. My download speed on the average of three tests is 4559kbs and I am still uploading on the torrents faster than downloading. This is the pitts. I am only getting an average of 11 kbs on down load with at least 50 peers on line.

To update this my utorent is now downloading with one torrent to bring in the file in just over one hour and yet there in another file that has been working for 19 hours and still only 95% done. There must be a hugh differance in the torrents and trackers.

[apple100]

Hi Everybodoy,

I am new to the forum.I am using µ 1.7.5. getting YELLOW icon instead of GREEN.

also i get the following error

A test will be performed on your computer to check if the specified port is opened.

Checking port 53510 on xx.xx.xx.xxx...

Error! Port 53510 does not appear to be open.

Please see www.portforward.com for more information about how to map a port.

Please make absolutely sure that PeerGuardian2 or Protowall is allowing utorrent.com (72.20.34.145) in either of those programs. Those of you using ipfilter.dat should make sure the list does not include the website's IP. After making sure of this, re-run this test by refreshing the page (F5).

Anyone else getting/not getting this error?.pls guide me on this

thanks in advance

Shinoptvl

[jude]

Hi everyone I'm getting the exact same problem and I've been up and down installed and un installed Utorrent for around 10 times everytime I get another port and everytime the same message when I have to check portforwarder. I've been to my router and there I could put a forwarder but it would not take it when I put the port number I got when i got utorrent it tells me I need to put it in decimals(0-9) when I put 0-9 it tells me it's supposed to be in a value 1-65535. well I don't know what else to do I am about to give up because i am absolutely clueless with these things that I got this far as to log into my router suprises me absolutely I feel I'm getting closer to solve this , Anyway

Please some one give me some easy functional steps to do so I can finally start using the utorrent I've heard so much about.

thanx jude

[m4rc3l1n0]

Hi everybody

i have a similliar problem with all of you guys but i'm still downloading and uploading fine

i set up port forwarding in my dsl modem and router

the utorrent seem to be alright it shows a green icon but all of my torrents tracker are offline

none of them are responding (all timed out) and i tried to update them every ten minutes with no luck at all

any idea what's wrong with my setting?

i tested my utorrent port with portforwarding.com and it works

this is my configuration

my comp ip : 192.168.1.100

utorrent : DHT off and upnp off

DSL Modem : Billion bipac5210s (port forwarding for utorrent to my comp ip)

Router : Dlink 624 (port forwarding for utorrent to my comp ip)

[Firon]

http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/index.html

Do torrents from this site work?

[lordcrabby]

it may be an ip filtering program, like peerguardian

or your hosts file, check in C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc

disable it by renaming or delete it

then reboot.

[Okamiblader]

I have tried everything you guys have mentioned. I tried to change to an static ip address, I have tried to port fowarding (through the site that was given), I tried to disable any antivirus and firewall, and did the random numbers between 53000 and 63000 and the default 6881-6889, tried DMZ but, nothing, I mean, nothing works it still says that the port is not open. I am using a Linksys WRT54Gv5 router and I saw on the port fowarding page their is a way to disable the firewall, but on mine, their is not way to do that. I need some serious help to help make this work, ASAP.

[DreadWingKnight]

And did you try using the port number defined in uT's preferences?

What makes you sure that 6881-6889 is actually uTorrent default?

[Okamiblader]

I only tried that when the preference port number did not work that was given by utorrent (this happened about five to seven times before I got sick off it)

[jewelisheaven]

For uT to choose a random port you set 0 as the assigned port in the Speed Guide.

[Okamiblader]

Yes, I did that and I just remembered my ISP gave me a static ip of 198.162.0.75 for an external IP address. My router is set at 192.168.1.1 and my IP is 192.168.1.106. It is not cable, it is an actual radio wave internet service since I live away in the country. They call it TigerNet. Would this cause a problem or is it maybe that the ISP blocks utorrent by default, hope to get some anwsers.

[Ultima]

198.162.0.75 isn't the IP I see you posting behind...

[bangback]

I also recommend checking a setting in uTorrent itself. Click options, preferences, advanced. Then scroll down this list until you see the net.bind_ip option. If this is not set to the address that corresponds to your machine's ip address (the one to which utorrent ports should be forwarded, and which should be the same ip address that shows up with an "ipconfig /all" dos command), one will see a "Listen error" that is accompanied by ports that never seem to open up.

This is a frustrating setting that caused me a massive loss of time trying to figure out (upwards of 20 hours) and is a step not mentioned anywhere in the instructions or faqs.

[Dormat]

I've wrestled with the issue of having the correct port forwarded for my static IP and having the port still being reported as closed. The culprit for me turned out to be one or both of these XP services being Disabled. Running "services.msc" and setting the startup type to Automatic for both and a reboot got me going again. Network Connections has something to do with the firewall so my guess is that one.

Network Connections

Network Location Awareness

[Ultima]

I have NLA disabled without any problems. I'm pretty sure Network Connections has nothing to do with it either, because I recall having disabled it before without any troubles (though I leave it enabled now, just because).

[mbath08]

this solution may help some:

I recently installed utorrent and was having trouble forwarding ports, no matter what i did, the port always said it was closed.

I decided to check the ADSL2 modem I recieved with my earthlink subscription, it turns out it was actually set up as a router and needed to have ports forwarded itself. . .

to fix this problem I set that router to be a bridge and nothing more, then set my wireless router which i had forwarded the ports on, to PPoE and the problem was solved...

hope that helps some people

[maevius]

UDP is only needed for DHT, nothing else (for now, in the future it may be required for more). DHT will work without forwarding. But I would suggest to forward it too.

Does it still apply for the current version?

[DreadWingKnight]

No. UDP is needed for uTP traffic now in addition to DHT.

[ahgrut]

Same problem with me.

As far as yesterday I always had a green connection icon or sometimes yellow at first and after a while green. I mostly connect to private trackers and I follow their rules. Today I am getting a red icon although my router hardware firewall settings and my software firewall setting haven't changed.

Any idea how to fix the problem ?