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    Port Forwarding...

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by jam12, Feb 12, 2009.

  1. jam12

    jam12 Notebook Deity

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    Hi,

    I've recently tried to tweak utorrent to gain faster speeds as many online tutorials claim. And this is where I've been having trouble with the port used by utorrent forwarding. I have attachments below on the port (utorrent, preferences > connection) and also the settings in my IS (Kaspersky, Firewall > Open Ports) and router (Belkin, Virtual Servers). Despite configuring these, utorrents port checker still brings up an error.

    What am I doing wrong?

    Regards, Jam.
    Btw, I'm a UK resident and my ISP is Virgin Media (formely NTL).
     

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    Hep! sees beauty in everything

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    I would first disable Kaspersky to see if that is the issue.
    Always good to rule that stuff out first.
     
    Hep!, Feb 12, 2009
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    Ah, I've should of done this in the first place before jumping into all the jargon of ports etc :D. Yep, disabled Kaspersky Firewall and the port is open! I've added utorrent to the application rules and also specified the port in Kaspersky but this again closes the port.

    Any suggestions?
     
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    In .Kaspersky try changing the rules to be instead of 0.0.0.0 to 127.0.0.1
     
    Hep!, Feb 12, 2009
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