Azureus

[BUFFY007]

Hi all! I registered especally just to post this comment and help out everyone as i had the yellow smiley face problem also.

You need to open up the port range on your router, everyone knows this. This is not neccessarly in the NAT section. There is a fantastic site that will show you how to do this, it lists a number of routers and then you can choose the program as it also shows the ports for that program.

e.g. I chose my router, then azureus. I did a range of 6881 - 6999. Once I did this I saved the settings in the router and restarted it. I then changed the NAT / Firewall test so the incoming listening port was 6881. After awhile (5 mins?) they changed from yellow to green.


Ok, now heres the site!!!!

http://www.portforward.com/routers.htm

Admins please put this URL somewhere so people can easily modify their router settings. Thanks.

[wdsfld]

I've been away for a week and for some reason my computer wont accept bittorrent downloads through azureus, giving me the error Connection Error (UnknownHostException: (the the tracker im trying to download from). I've been trying to sort it for a while with no luck. I'm on a household network useing a BT wireless network 1250. Im sure its something simple and i'm sorry to be a hassle, but as far as I can see im stumped. Plus my MSN messenger has stopped working giving me the command that the service is busy, I know that it is not as I can sign in on other computers in this network. aggggrrrhhhh

Anyway, any help would be much appreciated. Thanks

[wdsfld]

I forgot to mention that since I have been away my brother has been useing my computer. I dont know whether it could have been him messing with the ports that are open or . . . . . I dont know. It all seems the same as when I went . . .BUT ITS NOT!. The firewall settings are still the same, as are my router settings.

Thats all i can think of telling you. Cheers

[JPaul]

Forgive me but what the feck has that got to do with "related to this board".

[wdsfld]

alright sorry. posted it on the wrong board. didnt mean to offend.!

[Rick Phlegm]

What tracker is it? Maybe it's just gone down for a while.

[wdsfld]

oink and uknova. Thats the only ones Ive tried. but as I said I have tried on other computers and it has worked. hmmmm. It wont let me seed either.

[RPerry]

moved to the correct section

[wdsfld]

thank you. I was about to repost it but I thought that might be annoying for you

[JPaul]

If you were away for a week was the router switched off.

If so the ips (on the lan side) may have been re-assigned, depending on which PC was switched on first.

You could look at the dhcp client table and see which computers are allocated which numbers, then check that ports are being forwarded to the right ones.

I don't use azureus (prefer tornado) so I can't really suggest about t'software itself.