The green light

[mezigues]

hey all

It appears to be fluctuating, even tho nothing is being changed in the router/firewall

I'd like a technical explaination of what parameters µtorrent reads to show it green or orange please

[Ultima]

Green means you're connectable. Yellow means you haven't received any incoming connections, so µTorrent can't determine whether you're connectable or unconnectable. Red means you're unconnectable.

[Firon]

If you -never- see it stable, even when running large active torrents, you may have a problem, but not too likely.

[splintax]

Firon - how is it possible to receive an inbound connection if you are not portforwarded? (Doesn't it go green whenever you receive an inbound connection?)

[Wobbud]

This has been happening to me recently. It will stay green for a while, then turn yellow for a minute or so and then back to green again, even with popular torrents. It never used to do this.

[Firon]

splintax: it only stays green while there's an incoming connection. A minute after there's none left, it goes back to yellow.

[splintax]

Yes, but if it EVER goes green, that indicates that you are connectable, just that for whatever reason you aren't receiving many inbound connections.

Am I wrong here?

[Firon]

Generally. It is possible you have some kind of weird problem that kills incoming connections, but I doubt that's the case.

[etc]

what is an incoming connection? my upload speed is constantly full yet i get the traffic light effect all the time

[Firon]

There's two kinds of connections. An outgoing one (meaning, one that you start and make to someone else), and an incoming one (where you're listening on a port for connections, and someone else connects to YOU). Both are required for proper functioning of the swarm, though it will work without incoming connection, just not very well. Making incoming connections work is what you do when you forward your ports, configure your firewall, etc.

[etc]

thank you Firon i get it that far - what i dont get is how while people are actually downloading from me i still sometimes get the yellow light for quite long - after all they are connected if they are downloading

[Firon]

Most connections are outgoing (as in, you made the connection to them), you don't necessarily need an incoming connection for it to work. Without incoming connections, the light just reverts to yellow.

[etc]

oh i see - that makes sense indeed - thank you!

[mezigues]

ok!

so everything works just fine!

thanks for explaining this mistery!