Port Forwarding, Utorrent and Router Firewalls Question

Bony Maloney · 5 Dec 2009 at 09:39

According to Portforwarding when using Utorrent my Zyxel router requires its firewall to be off to obtain max download. Now when I check with Shields up it picks up that I am wide open to probing of my ports (ooh err missus

) When I had my Netgear router all I had to do was forward the ports. I still got the green icon in Utorrent and Shields up gave me a pass on all common tests without disabling my routers firewall. Is it usual to disable the firewall and leave it like that? My router is the P-660HW T1 V2 flavour.

Firegod · 5 Dec 2009 at 19:07

Does it not have UPnP?

SiriusB · 5 Dec 2009 at 19:26

uTorrent has never worked with UPnP on 3 different routers. Azureas never worked either.

I find it odd you have to drop the firewall though. The whole point of opening ports is so you don't have to drop your firewall :/

Dist · 5 Dec 2009 at 19:32

uTorrent works perfectly fine for me when I use UPnP on my wrt54gl, it also worked fine on my realy old netgear. So are you sure you have UPnP enabled on both the router and the client?

Firegod · 5 Dec 2009 at 19:43

SiriusB said:
uTorrent has never worked with UPnP on 3 different routers. Azureas never worked either.

Something not right there then.... :confused:

Bony Maloney · 5 Dec 2009 at 21:08

Dist said:
uTorrent works perfectly fine for me when I use UPnP on my wrt54gl, it also worked fine on my realy old netgear. So are you sure you have UPnP enabled on both the router and the client?

Portforwarding guide said to disable UPnP in Utorrent?(it is still disabled in the client) Not sure were to set it in the Zyxel router. I have just re-enabled the routers firewall and I still have the green icon for Utorrent indicating that my ports are forwarded OK. Shields up cannot now probe my ports

Dist · 5 Dec 2009 at 23:14

If you use UPnP then you dont need to forward any ports manualy or anything like that, it does it all by itself (as long as both router and client have it enabled), without UPnP you have to specificaly forward every port used by uTorrent on the router to your local IP. The firewall shouldn't have to be disabled in either situation.

AbsenceJam · 5 Dec 2009 at 23:20

SiriusB said:
uTorrent has never worked with UPnP on 3 different routers. Azureas never worked either.

I find it odd you have to drop the firewall though. The whole point of opening ports is so you don't have to drop your firewall :/

You must have disabled the UPNP and/or SSDP services.

Hudzy · 5 Dec 2009 at 23:29

Using uTorrent with UPnP on a bebox here, and that's about the worst router I've ever used.

Ev0 · 6 Dec 2009 at 00:51

I've used utorrent on a zyxel 660hw for years and you just need to forward the port, no need to drop the firewall.

I don't like using upnp so just forward the port and job done.

Bony Maloney · 6 Dec 2009 at 07:52

Ev0 said:
I've used utorrent on a zyxel 660hw for years and you just need to forward the port, no need to drop the firewall.

I don't like using upnp so just forward the port and job done.

Looks to be the case and sorted now. Thanks peoples

bledd · 7 Dec 2009 at 14:34

Dist said:
uTorrent works perfectly fine for me when I use UPnP on my wrt54gl, it also worked fine on my realy old netgear. So are you sure you have UPnP enabled on both the router and the client?

ditto

SiriusB · 7 Dec 2009 at 14:39

AbsenceJam said:
You must have disabled the UPNP and/or SSDP services.

uTorrent, Azureus, 3 routers, 5 computers, 3 versions of Windows. Nothing.

Either I am bad karma for UPnP or I somehow manage to pick combinations that don't work!

bledd · 8 Dec 2009 at 10:00

Best to test it on linux distro downloads

utorrent, set upnp
router, set upnp
check windows firewall settings for upnp