I cave in: Bittorrent problems.

Fenster · 13-11-2004 12:16am #1

As with most of the Bittorrent problems posted on this board, it'll turn out to be something stupid and I'll rightly be made fun of for it, but until then...

I've two machines: Laptop and desktop. I've never been able to get Bittorrent running through port 6881-and believe me, I tried-I've a pinhole in my router set for it and its specifically allowed by my firewall. But anyways. I got a copy of Azureus (Linux version) a few days ago and following some links here I disabled uPnP on my router (Cayman 3346) and changed Azureus to use a random port as suggested. Again, I set a pinhole for it...and it worked.

However, I decided to install Azureus today on my desktop-again, the Linux version-however, it can't connect to the listen port and the configuration wizard gives me a NAT error when I try to apply the same settings that worked on my laptop.

So, feel free to point out how easily this can be solved, as it has me utterly stumped.

Fenster · 13-11-2004 11:44am

Bump.

aidan_walsh · 13-11-2004 3:03pm

Hmm... Possibly irrelevant, but do you connect to the router wirelessly from the laptop, or with a physical connection?

Fenster · 13-11-2004 3:53pm

Physical connections as I've never liked wireless.

EDIT: My network setup is as so:

Router-> Firewall-> Hub-> Desktop/Laptop

aidan_walsh · 13-11-2004 3:58pm

The laptop isn't throwing up NAT errors? UPnP is enabled on both, this can cause problems sometimes...

Fenster · 13-11-2004 4:20pm

Its disabled on the laptop also. The laptop is just throwing up errors that the port is in use.

EDIT: Its only throwing up "port in use" errors for ports that I had pinholed. For all other ports, I'm getting similar NAT errors...

astrofool · 13-11-2004 4:57pm

on the same topic. what do most people use to manage their torrent downloads/uploads ?

Fenster · 13-11-2004 5:04pm

A big folder labelled "downloads" for myself.

luckat · 13-11-2004 5:09pm

Maybe it doesn't like the firewall?

Fenster · 13-11-2004 5:17pm

luckat wrote:

Maybe it doesn't like the firewall?

I've tried every combination you can think of, short of plugging the PC into the wall, but the effect is always the game.

the_syco · 13-11-2004 5:24pm

PM sent.

aidan_walsh · 13-11-2004 5:36pm

:mad: Why? Can't you use the public forum like everyone else!? Half the point is keeping the information public so that we can refer to it later should someone else have the same difficulty.

Fenster · 13-11-2004 5:45pm

The PM was about a matter he wanted to bring up privately, so lets leave it at that.

I cave in: Bittorrent problems.

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