Using torrents with O2 Broadband

Cyclone

Cyclone

Cyclone

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Hello all,

Im trying to use utorrent with the O2 wireless box and I cant open the port I need (32176).

Ive set up the 'rule' in comodo firewall, and I thought I port forwarded to the router, but when I check to see if the port is open Im told its not. :confused:

Has anyone managed to use torrents ok (ie get a green icon) using O2 and their wireless box??

tia
 
Yep, and in my router config ive forwarded the port. But my icon in utorrent doesnt go green. Even turning off comodo firewall doesnt help, so it must be the router :confused:
 
I use utorrents via a 780wl but not via wireless No probs! Don't have to da anything. Just don't use Kaspersky it tends to freeze the puter making it impossible to access the router itself.
 
First get a torrent with a high amount of seeds/peers for testing.
Ubuntu Desktop x86 is good for that.

Then tell us what happens with that.
 
make sure utorrents not randomising the port (one of the settings)
it also takes a while or a restart to recognise after a prots been opened
some routers also seem to need restarting and a check to make sure the forwardings has stuck
 
You sure you are forwarding it to the correct ip ?

TBH, even if i dont open my ports i still max out the connection using utorrent. Just up the amount of connections in the settings to 500.
 
Thanks for the replies.

I tried the evolutionpatch torrent for Pro Evo 2008 (in the game section) and that started downloading. But the icon never goes green, just stays orange.

EDIT Ignore the above, its suddenly gone green. Thats weird I checked to see if the port was open and it wasnt.......wtf??!!
Seems to be working now - thanks chaps :)
 
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Cyclone, Camalot was talking about your LAN IP (eg 192.168.x.x) not your WAN/public IP (eg 87.82.xxx.xx). If you believe you've forwarded the port but it's reporting as not open (and didn't have any idea about LAN IPs) I'd say there's a good chance that's your problem.

You need to assign a static LAN IP to your PC in the router, and then forward port 32176 to that IP (eg 192.168.1.2).
 
^^^ lol I know what you mean now :)

Its working fine now (dont know how) but if it goes moobs up again ill try that.

Thanks again for your help ;)
 
Port forwarding!

Thankfully my 2wire router forwards ports to a named PC that it keeps track of so I dont have to worry about lan IP's other dont though.
 
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