Port forwarding problem.

Drez

So, uTorrent wants me to forward certain ports. I know HOW to forward ports/port ranges, but uTorrent said "ha ha, you failed!" Is there a website or something I can use to check if a port is forwarded correctly (without inviting a DDoS attack or something :P)?

I have a WinXP machine and a Linksys router...wireless, but I'm connected to it via wirez.

Edit: Wait, for some reason my windows firewall is on even though I shut it off. That would do it, huh?

Drez

Nevermind, I got it. uTorrent has a port-forwarding checker and it looks like disabling Windows Firewall did the trick. It's still slow as hell though.

Should I close and restart uTorrent? Does that matter?

KMFurDM

Yes. Set up UPnP. Works well for uTorrent because since you can make uTorrent use random ports at startup you will not have to modify your port settings and it can help avoid any possible ISP silliness if they decide to block a heavily used port.

Axim

could just be the download, if it say the port is being forwarded okay then things are fine on the router end of things. if it worked fine at some point before than that would rule out your isp filtering BT traffic and limiting it, in which case you'd turn on protocol encryption in options. otherwise i'd try getting a linux distro or something off bt where it has so many seeds you know that if you're not getting huge speeds it is something with your setup..