uTorrent firewall setup

[iLLbeFrank]

Hi

Wil someone please help me out of my misery?! I have been trying to get utorrent working for a while now and I am about to give up.

I have only ever been able to download one torrent halfway and now it just sits there. I keep choosing torrents with plenty of peers & seeds, but when I start downloading them, the seeds and peers show as "0 of 0 connected" with some number "in swarm" next to it.

In uTorrent's status bar is written "DHT:Waiting to log in", with a yellow triangle next to it. When I test if the port is forwarded correctly from uTorrent's Speed Guide, the website returns a "IE cannot display the webpage" error.

I read www.portforward.com and applied their settings to the letter. My modem is a Telkom Mega 200VWR, which is apparently also known in other markets as a Billion BiPAC7404VGO. In its settings it has a "Virtual Server (Port Forwarding)" option where I set both the "External Port" and "Redirect Port" fields to xxxx-xxxx where xxxx is the port number I have chosen in uTorrent's connection settings. I also added a packet filter under firewall settings to allow both incoming and outcoming connections through port xxxx for all IP adresses. Here I get confused, because I am not sure if "Source Ports" should be 0 - 65535 and "Destination Ports" xxxx-xxxx, or vice versa.

As a last resort I briefly allowed access through all ports 0 - 65535 and the port forwarding test came back with an "OK!".

Any clue as to what may be wrong? Any help will be much appreciated

 

[The_Techie]

Welcome to the forums, iLLbeFrank

Have you tried setting uTorrent to use port 80? I know it's not the best solution but it's a known workaround if your firewall blocks most of the other ports.

 

[iLLbeFrank]

Welcome to the forums, iLLbeFrank

Have you tried setting uTorrent to use port 80? I know it's not the best solution but it's a known workaround if your firewall blocks most of the other ports.

Thank you, thank you. Good to be here

I'll try that and report back, thanks

 

[HavocXphere]

Note that the entire port forwarding thing is not compulsory.

I never bothered and on a good torrent I can manage about 90% of the line speed. i.e. 35KB/s. Unless your on a 4mbps adsl line I would seriously not bother.

Your problem is quite simply that there are no seeds. Wait one minute or so when you start a torrent. If you don't have at least 2 seeds after 1 minute then the torrent is going to give you more hassles then its worth. Cut your losses and find something else...its just the way torrents work.

 

[iLLbeFrank]

Note that the entire port forwarding thing is not compulsory.
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Your problem is quite simply that there are no seeds.

Using port 80 doesn't seem to work either

I did not want to leave my firewall open long enough to download a torrent, but if I do, I suspect I'll get the same result.

Thanks for the feedback anyway.