My created torrent says availability zero (red bar)

[Juc1]

Hi all

I created a torrent (pirates of the caribbean trailer) in uTorrent 3.3.2 from the instructions here http://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Torrent in laptop 1 and I uploaded the torrent file here http://tinyurl.com/qbff368 - the torrent file downloads and opens ok. I can see the torrent in laptop 1 uTorrent saying "seeding" and "availability 100%" but when I download / open the torrent file in laptop 2 uTorrent says no peers, red bar, availability zero.

Any ideas please what is wrong?

Thank you...

[ciaobaby]

The second laptop cannot connect to the first one.

[Juc1]

I can see there is now upload activity on laptop 1 so someone is downloading the file successfully - so is there maybe some rule that you can't download from a machine with the same IP address?

[ciaobaby]

depends,

Are they both using different listen ports?

Is local peer discovery on?

Does your router allow loopback?

[Juc1]

different listen ports = yes

local peer discovery on = yes

Does your router allow loopback - not sure - am looking at my router (HUAWEI HG533) in the browser but am not sure where this setting is. I could ask my ISP - so what question should I ask them? Is it that I need to have NAT loopback?

Thanks...

[ciaobaby]

NAT and loopback are two different unconnected things, but according to the manual it is a "real" LAN hub and not just a "glorified modem". So provided the two machine can "see" each other on the LAN they should be able to connect with their LAN IPs.