I have tried not to post, because I know how resourceful this site is, but after hours and hours of reading it doesn't seem like I have a choice.
running Vista, Utorrent peer guardian and 2wire 2701HG-B.
I hve excepted utorrent through firewall, turn the firewall off, I have set up a static ip but it doesn't show on the router webpage firewall summary(but I'm not sure if it should), I have added the port to the firewall for TCP and UDP, I have unchecked all the boxes recommended, set the correct download speed in the speed guide and still no open port. I don't know what do next I know there's help out there someone please honor me with your analitical presence to my issue.thanks in advance
I've look over everything mistycat several times and utorrent still says "!" I've done everything suggested by you and others and I just don't know what I'm doing wrong or maybe the port is open and just saying it not. How can I tell if it's open. ps AT&T is ISP dsl
Try enabling Protocol Encryption: http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/395674 (scroll down a bit). utorrent did lie about my port being closed when I knew it should be open, showed red on connection on main page too but only both for about a month. You should be able to tell by your result's from a speed test and the maximum speed you see in utorrent. I'm not sure but maybe a custom port check at a site like Shield's Up with utorrent both opened and closed, maybe with utorrent downloading. Most speed test's show in kb, utorrent in kB, so make sure you convert properly (8 kb = 1 kB) (640 kb = 80 kB) Some ISP's that throttle don't at off peak time's, try overnight. You're probably not doing anything wrong, I've suspected Vista for some time, specially Premium, even when they show green.
Should have thought if this last night. Take this speedtest, usually pretty accurate and, speed should remain fairly constant with DSL: http://www.speedtest.net/ Yor speed will show in Mb, bit different again (1 Mb = 1024 kb = 128 kB), what does it show for your download, should be close to your max? Try a download here, 3.1 seemed good, lot's of seed's and few peer's, if not 2.4.1 used to be good, haven't checked it lately or have a look at other's and let it run for 15 minutes - 1/2 hour, should show good speed's if utorrent is trying to trick you: http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/ Think it is now but ensure randomize port at options>preferences>connection is disabled.
alright I'll try that but what does "Try a download here, 3.1 seemed good, lot's of seed's and few peer's, if not 2.4.1 used to be good, haven't checked it lately or have a look at other's and let it run for 15 minutes - 1/2 hour". Sorry I'm new to this and although I've read several post I still don't certain things.
Just different file version's you can choose to download; at the time I wrote that, 3.1 was good and other version's like 2.4.1 have been good in the past. Just use one with more seed's than peer's.
