glowingmicrobe Posted September 28, 2012 Report Share Posted September 28, 2012 Hey all,Very new to networking so forgive me for my lack of knowledge. My problem is recently when I try to download something in Utorrent my speeds have slowed to a crawl (around 20-40 kb/s). In addition, I get the red exclamation point error saying a firewall or router is limiting my traffic. The problem is my firewall is designated by norton antivirus, which has confirmed that utorrent is automatically configured to work in the firewall. my router is a netgear and I have heard that port forwarding helps speeds, but I am concerned to do this for privacy and safety reasons. Does port forwarding reduce anonymity? I'm, stumped because when I first began using utorrent my speeds were fantastic. I havnt really changed anything other than using a proxy but even them I was still getting 1.0 mb/s speeds. Im pretty sure my NAT is open. Does anyone have any advice to offer? Thanks.-Justin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciaobaby Posted September 29, 2012 Report Share Posted September 29, 2012 Get rid of ANY products that have the name "Nortons" attached to it.http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=15992 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glowingmicrobe Posted September 29, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 29, 2012 Despite the fact that I allowed Utorrent through the firewall? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciaobaby Posted September 29, 2012 Report Share Posted September 29, 2012 Norton's interferes with EVERYTHING, in one clients computer I worked on, it had even managed to block itself from own updating!!!!!I think it only manages to survive for the same reasons that Infernet Exploder continues to be so widely used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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