pls help!! regarding utorrent.

hello, after being disappointed by the utorrent forum i came here looking for solution, pls help me.

i am having winxp professional as my os, with cabel net connection with lan card, no router, with zonealarm as my firewall, n avast as my antivirus.

i have 256kbps connection but my download speed is onl 30-40kbps :(

i am unable to configure the correct port to turn the yellow light green. what to do? i tried everyting in zonelarm but invain.

pls help, how to configure utorrent to get max download speed n turn that bloddy yellow light green :(

pls solve my query,

regards.

forward the ports maybe

portforward dot com

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Originally Posted by Presto

forward the ports maybe

portforward dot com

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he has no router . where should he forward ports? on your router ?

:frusty:

ashwa , if your max download speed is 256 kbps, it means that your max download speed is 256/8=32 kByte/s .
as for lights, if you are not connectable, it is red , if you aren't connected to remote users, it is something like yellow . otherwise it is green .
try to open a torrent that has many seeders and many leechers, and wait about 30 minutes . i'm sure that the flag will turn to green .

Put uTorrent and its port in your firewall's exception list...

And in uTorrent - it doesn't turn green right away... With me, that light turns yellow first then it gradually turns green.

http://paperkingdoms.wordpress.com/2006/08/22/utorrent-speed-problems
http://paperkingdoms.wordpress.com/2006/08/17/setting-up-utorrent-for-optimum-performance-part-2

LOL shit i didnt read the whole thing thru

pls dont fight :(

i have a torrent that hs 120seeders but still the speed is the same n the light wont budge, they say download speed increses if the light turns green as u get connected to more peers or something like that.

sorry for my ignorance frstrules but how to put it in exception list? i have given full access to utorrent but still not much happening dude.

kindly suggest what to do.

regards

also, which is the best torrent software for download n sharing? which has simple interface

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Originally Posted by ashwa

pls dont fight :(

i have a torrent that hs 120seeders but still the speed is the same n the light wont budge, they say download speed increses if the light turns green as u get connected to more peers or something like that.

sorry for my ignorance frstrules but how to put it in exception list? i have given full access to utorrent but still not much happening dude.

kindly suggest what to do.

regards

also, which is the best torrent software for download n sharing? which has simple interface

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I'm not sure how, because I don't use ZoneAlarm Firewall... Try checking out its settings...

are u sure your firewall isnt stopping it and have u tryed just reinstalling utorrent ?

Did you test it by turning the firewall off for a few minutes ?See if it turns green.Zonealarm some times can give you a few connection problems in some bittorent pograms

close your firewall...
whay you need the zonealarm anyway???
are you using both firewalls zonealarm and win XP???
because that's realy make things hard for your computer.
and for the speed.... as fatma said the max download speed is 256/8 what makes it 30 more or less

yah my winxp firewall if off

i am connected via lan bro, need firewall to prevent any network attacks or whatever it is called as.....cant it work without turning of the firewall?

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Originally Posted by ashwa

yah my winxp firewall if off

i am connected via lan bro, need firewall to prevent any network attacks or whatever it is called as.....cant it work without turning of the firewall?

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Yah allow incoming/outcoming traffic in the firewall..What firewall are you using?

mhm.. this problem is similar with problem for me.. you should see which your ports are open.. you can see it there: https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 if your ports all closed you should ask to you internet owner that he must open port which you choose.. if this find some ports open just write open to utorrent and check if it is open.. if yes then don't care about red color..

you sure you are supposed to have higher speeds? 256kb/s equals ~30KB/s
maybe you are confusing kilobits and kilobytes.
Most internet isp mesure speeds in kilobits, and most applications (utorrent) measure in kilobytes. Using this logic, you are getting the speeds you payed for.

I am really not seeing an issue here, you are already maxing out your download speeds, maybe you should check to see if you are also maxing out your upload speed because really in the torrent world, that is the most important.

I suspect your problem is Zone Alarm. It's not a bad firewall but it's notorious for conflicting with P2P programs. I found it didn't work for me as it caused too many problems so I switched to Sygate and haven't looked back.

Having said that I'm sure there's heaps of people who use ZA and are perfectly happy. I know my freind uses it and uTorrent and he doesn't have any issues.

Good Luck :)

i am using zonealarm.

i am having 256kbps(kilo byte per second) n i am getting 30 kilo byte per second....is this the max speed i will get?

k thank for the site, will try it.

anyone else with any advice, plssss, i'll be greatful to u..pls

i.e 25KB/s connection n getting 3KB/s dowload speed

unless you are completely sure of your connection....256kb/s = 256 kilo bit per second, not 256 kilo byte per second

ie. 8Mb/s downstream and 768kb/s upstream, those numbers are in bits, not bytes, you must divide both of those numbers by 8 (8 bits in 1 byte), which gives you 1 MB/s downstream and 96 kB/s upstream

so what im trying to say is that it sounds like you are getting the speeds you are supposed to be getting, but were misled by the lowercase b and capital B

ZoneAlarm Firewall dont use that use xp firewall and u safe lool
way betta firewall well frm me

thanks all. changes m firewall to sygate. well lets see what happens. will post my update soon. thanks.

if you really want good fw so i think you should try outpost fw.. but i think your speed is correct and you have what you should have with this connection..

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Originally Posted by fstrulz

Put uTorrent and its port in your firewall's exception list...

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No need since he's set MaCrappy to let µtorrent do whatever it likes.

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Originally Posted by ashwa

...cant it work without turning of the firewall?

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Yes but if you turn off the firewall and your speeds increase then you'll know that's the problem and you can then either track down the problem in ZA or change to another firewall.

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Originally Posted by svk69

ZoneAlarm Firewall dont use that use xp firewall and u safe lool
way betta firewall well frm me

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Bad advice. Please don't do that again.

Get a router. I don't bother with software firewalls. They are so agressive and slow traffic a lot and many times can be a pain to configure certain programs with them.

I just have the XP firewall enabled and my router firewall and that's all I need.

guys, i have tried shuttingshown ZA but it was of no use, so i changed it to sygate, n still the same.

can anyone tell how to optimise sygate for utorrent?

pls.

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Originally Posted by ashwa

guys, i have tried shuttingshown ZA but it was of no use, so i changed it to sygate, n still the same.

can anyone tell how to optimise sygate for utorrent?

pls.

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all i did for mine (using utorrent) is tell it to allow the program to access the internet, and i was done..... (and i accomplished this by first installing the firewall, then starting utorrent and a screen popped up and asked me if i wanted to allow it access, i chose yes....done)

ashwa.....READ! http://www.bootstrike.com/Articles/B...ide/index.html


Important>>> you must download the Patched TCPIP.sys file..this will allow you to make more connections thus a Higher speed (u will prob get speeds of 150-180 on a decently seeded torrent) than u are getting at the mo...

hope it helped

Neo :yup:

heyyyyyyyy...looks like that site will help... lemme give it a try...will let u know the result in a while...seems this will help for sure.

thanks.

seems i just cant configure anything about my utorrent :(

tried to download that tcpip.sys patch by going to that site but my explorer kept saying "
Cannot find "www.lvllord.de"

DNS Error - Server cannot be found

"

even tried it in firefox & avant but both said the same :(

is that site forbidden or something like that...just when i thought i can get a hold of things this error comes up

any sugesstion ppl? from where else i can download that tcpip.sys patch or anyways to get rid of this DNS servor cannot be found error?

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Originally Posted by ashwa

hello, after being disappointed by the utorrent forum i came here looking for solution, pls help me.

i am having winxp professional as my os, with cabel net connection with lan card, no router, with zonealarm as my firewall, n avast as my antivirus.

i have 256kbps connection but my download speed is onl 30-40kbps :(

i am unable to configure the correct port to turn the yellow light green. what to do? i tried everyting in zonelarm but invain.

pls help, how to configure utorrent to get max download speed n turn that bloddy yellow light green :(

pls solve my query,

regards.

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OFF-Topic: Check your mail:happy:

ON-Topic: I believe that you are maxing out your connection.. please check your subscription manual if it is kbps - or kBps... ;)

thanks for all ur inputs n ur efforts to solve my problem...very happy to inform that the problem is solved in a way..

i mean i have configured utorrent to full speed irrespestive of the yellow light turning green.

one of my frend provided me with a link for patching tcpip.sys...well could open the related link...but that page was worth it.

here is its link. http://www.bootstrike.com/Articles/B...ide/index.html

well i found another rocking piece of software that helps u patch tcpip.sys n open the connection to max..

here is its link...reading both topic up above one n this one will help u configure utorrent to max.

here is the 2nd link http://sharethefiles.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=33860

download the xp-antispy software recommended in that site.

i here close this thread.

thanks all.