fitzcaraldo Posted May 22, 2006 Report Share Posted May 22, 2006 OK. I have two ISP providers, dial-up that I use at work and DSL at home from the same laptop. I have about 5 active torrents that only seem to find seeds via the slow dial-up connection and never over the DSL. Other torrents over the DSL work fine. I have port forwarding and all the other stuff set up fine and most torrents work without problems. I thought it must be DSL ISP blocking the well-known port so generated a new one and that makes no difference. I also thought the seeders might work the same hours as me and also closed their laptop! - but I can be connected to 5 seeders (from all over) at work and then 20 minutes later when I get home they've all gone. Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted May 22, 2006 Report Share Posted May 22, 2006 Do you ever see the connection light as yellow or red while connected via DSL?Because that's what I think might be the problem -- while connected via DSL you're firewalled and thus cannot connect to those seeds since they're all firewalled too. At work, via dial-up you wouldn't be firewalled as it's a (nearly) direct internet connection. But at home is your DSL modem also a mini-router? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
µtorrent-Guest Posted May 22, 2006 Report Share Posted May 22, 2006 beeing connected thru DLS does not automaticly mean being firewalled!if the modem is a router then yes, the NAT/portforward procedere has to be done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fitzcaraldo Posted May 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2006 Most torrents work fine over the DSL line. Light is green. I do have a firewall and I have opened the ports and port forwarded the correct one. Even if I completely disable the firewall I still cannot find seeds for some torrents over DSL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted May 22, 2006 Report Share Posted May 22, 2006 The firewall you're disabling wouldn't happen to be a software firewall such as Norton or Zone Alarm by any chance?(Those 2 are known to cause all sorts of problems for µTorrent...and are best uninstalled, as disabling them still leaves stuff in your system which severely cripples performance.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fitzcaraldo Posted May 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2006 I have a firewall in the Billion ADSL router and Zonealarm on the machine. ZA is running on both connections though (dial up and DSL). I might try and uninstall it anyway. Can anyone suggest an alternative? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted May 22, 2006 Report Share Posted May 22, 2006 Look 'n' Stop? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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