Help with blocked ports (bittorent)

Calavera · Post by **Calavera** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 8:47 pm

I have a high-speed connection hook up to a ....
Netgear EN104 Ethernet 4-Port Hub with BNC and Uplink Button
and I can't get Bittorrent to get rid of the yellow light. Any ideas?

Caboose · Post by **Caboose** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 8:49 pm

Use a real Bit Torrent Client.

Calavera · Post by **Calavera** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 8:59 pm

Caboose wrote:Use a real Bit Torrent Client.

Ok, now how can I fix the yellow triangle in that program?

Calavera · Post by **Calavera** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 9:12 pm

The port checker in utorrent shows them as open, yet I still get the yellow light of doom.

Thomas · Post by **Thomas** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 9:23 pm

http://www.portforward.com

find you router and open the ports it suggests.

Calavera · Post by **Calavera** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 10:10 pm

Thomas wrote:http://www.portforward.com

find you router and open the ports it suggests.

Not listed.

Calavera · Post by **Calavera** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 11:46 pm

I get 200KB/s on internet downloads. But bittorent or ares is lucky to get 10KB/s.

APE · Post by **APE** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 12:13 am

Find the port your client is using and forward it in the router. It's really that simple.

Number Six · Post by **Number Six** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 12:26 am

This is a long shot, but try changing your client to use an insanely high port number. My DSL modem gives me NO access to ports. None. Lame, I know. Using the standard BT port (6881, is it?) in Azureus I get the yellow circle. One day, on a lark, I changed it to a port around 65000, and the circle's been green ever since. Of course, I can't guarantee it'll work for you, but it couldn't hurt.

Post by **Specially Cork** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 5:10 am

Just pur your comp in the DMZ

Calavera · Post by **Calavera** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 8:50 am

I have no idea how to to the port fowarding thing. Can you even do it on the hub I posted?

Number Six · Post by **Number Six** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 11:17 am

I don't know if that was directed to me or not, but I'll answer anyway. My suggestion would be different than port forwarding. Like I said, I use Azureus, and inside the client there is an option to change the port BT will use on your machine. It even goes so far as to test your choice of ports beforehand. I just tested a bunch of random port numbers until I got one that worked. See, you're not actually telling the hub/router what ports to open and what ports to close. All you're doing is telling the program which port you want it to use. In my case, I stumbled upon the fact that only most of my ports were unavailable. As I said in my first post, it's a long shot, but the same may be true for you. Just fiddle around in your program's options menu, possibly under a "connections" sub-menu, and look for the port number. It should be editable. Just try changing it to random numbers for a while and maybe you'll find one that'll work. Good luck!

Wagh · Post by **Wagh** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 11:27 am

use a switch. Or a real router.

APE · Post by **APE** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 11:33 am

Wagh wrote:use a switch. Or a real router.

http://www.amazon.com/Linksys-Cisco-WRT ... 548&sr=1-2

Consult us experts ahead of time. That with HyperWRT+Thibor=heaven. Or DD-WRT.

Calavera · Post by **Calavera** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 11:45 am

So is there no way to get it to work with the netgear or what.

Thomas · Post by **Thomas** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 11:57 am

Trying going into the portion of you router and doing:

Name: Utor1
Protocol: TCP
Port Start: (Whichever port uTorrent is set to)
Port End: " "

If that doesn't work check to see if your ISP blocks any ports, and if they don't and still nothing works I don't know what to tell you.

Calavera · Post by **Calavera** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 12:11 pm

Thomas wrote:Trying going into the portion of you router and doing:

Name: Utor1
Protocol: TCP
Port Start: (Whichever port uTorrent is set to)
Port End: " "

If that doesn't work check to see if your ISP blocks any ports, and if they don't and still nothing works I don't know what to tell you.

how would I do that?

butters · Post by **butters** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 1:01 pm

Try plugging in directly to whatever connects you to the internet and see if you get a green light. If you don't, try changing the port number the program tries to connect on. When you find a working port, connect to your router and forward that port to your ip address. You can find out your ip address by typing ipconfig at a cmd prompt.

Egotistical EvilN · Post by **Egotistical EvilN** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 1:25 pm

Call netgear and ask them how to port forward.

AuroEdge · Post by **AuroEdge** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 12:18 am

Enable UPnP in your Windows firewall if you're using Windows XP and that's really all it should take. Never used NetGear, only Linksys, but you should be fine.