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Can't connect to torrents

cubelovercubelover Registered User regular
edited January 2007 in Help / Advice Forum
Ever since I installed the Nintendo WiFi USB Adaptor I haven't been able to get my torrent applications to connect (something about NAT or some such). It appears that the application is trying to access the internet through the adaptor (the IP address is the same) instead of my high speed connection. However changing the IP address in the application does not allow me to connect.

I'm running Windows XP (no service packs as far as I know), and no software firewalls other than ICF. Obviously internet connection sharing is on.

I have no clue about networking, etc. and the sites I have looked at don't appear to address this issue (or they do and I'm too thick to understand it :P).

Could anybody supply some steps I could take to try and resolve this? Thanks a lot!

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  • Captain KCaptain K Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Is your computer behind a router?

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  • lunarwulflunarwulf Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Have you tried changing torrents to access a static port on your firewall?

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  • cubelovercubelover Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Thanks for the replies:

    1. No, the computer is not behind a router. I am using an Efficient SpeedStream 5360 modem.

    2. I'm not too sure what you mean about changing torrents. I've tried three different torrent apps (bittorrent, Azareus and microTorrent). When I try to download the file I can't. I get the NAT error.

    Actually here are the errors I'm currently receiving (microTorrent 1.6):
    UDP Port bind failed
    Error opening Windows firewall: 0x80040154
    Unable to Map UPnP Port

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