pacuk01 Posted December 15, 2010 Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 Hi, I am with AOL, and until recently I had no problems. But in the last 7 days or so I have been getting the exclamation mark saying I am unreachable. I haven't downloaded any software recently. My firewall is still off. I have rechecked my port forward data in my netgear router and that hasnt changed. I have changed ports and created new rules. I have checked ports using the portforward checker and that still says port is closed. Utorrent has now changed and just says no incoming connections. I am uploading at a reasonable rate up to the bandwidth allocated. But downloading rate is awful despite there being 3 seeds and 7(41) peers. I am really lost here, the fact that everything I do say the port is closed.Any help please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacuk01 Posted December 15, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 I have now got a red exclamation mark and it says I am not connectable, but I am uploading at 10kb and downloading at 20kb????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTHK Posted December 15, 2010 Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 Hahaha AOL. What'd you do 7 days ago? What firewall? Try openoffice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacuk01 Posted December 15, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 I haven't installed anything or downloaded anything....apart from windows xp automatic updates......aol hasn't been a problem to date. The windows firewall is off, avast is antivirus software, and the updates are automatic on that too (basic free edition). Portchecker reports all ports closed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted December 16, 2010 Report Share Posted December 16, 2010 Is your modem also a router? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacuk01 Posted December 16, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 16, 2010 Yes the modem is also a router, and I have set up port forward on my chosen port, I have allowed both incoming and outgoing traffic. I have tried creating a static ip address for my computer. I have also set firewall rules. None of this made any difference. The fact that it was working fine, and now it is working but with this network error exclamation mark is very strange. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted December 16, 2010 Report Share Posted December 16, 2010 Has the computer's LAN ip changed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacuk01 Posted December 17, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 17, 2010 It hadn't. But I have changed it now, and it has made no difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted December 18, 2010 Report Share Posted December 18, 2010 The modem's router part has to be forwarded to the WAN side of your router rather than to your computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacuk01 Posted December 18, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 18, 2010 Could AOL be throttling me back and causing the problem. I have set up to allow utorrent under services and also on the firewall rules. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted December 18, 2010 Report Share Posted December 18, 2010 Or their ISP might... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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