[nugget]

Updated: 22/03/2009

Members please go through this BEFORE asking for help on connection / speed issues.

1) Are you using a router? Checked your port forwarding? How? http://portforward.com/ Read the website and pay attention to things like "static/dynamic IP" in relation to a home network. Choose the guide for your router make/model instructions. Port Forwarding is a common problem.

2) Most routers have a way to "DMZ" but this you need to setup a "static network IP" as mentioned above. It automatically forwards ALL ports to one IP. Read your router manual and try to access the router configuration. We can't help much here as everyone owns different hardware. This is a security risk, be aware.

3) Disable uPnP in uTorrent and your router. You should be forwarding ports yourself and not relying on Windows to do it for you as its not reliable.

4) Turn off Windows XP or Vista Firewall and also the firewall on your router. In fact disable every kind of security product you have except malware scanners. I'm talking zonealarm, norton etc.

5) Finally have you checked its just not the torrent that is the problem try leeching a more popular movie? Could be just lack of seeders and connected peers.

6) Is someone else in your home a movie freak and leeching away your bandwidth? No? Limit your upload to 80% of maximum, that might be bottlenecking your download speed.

7) Deleted.

8) Maybe your ISP is affectionate towards anti-piracy thus limiting bandwidth? Use "Speed Guide" in utorrent options to check if incoming port is open and also enable "Protocol Encryption" in utorrent which is supposed to disguise bittorrent use from your ISP.

9) Is your router freezing causing frequent disconnects and needing to restart it? Too many max connections on torrent and global. Use the "Speed Guide" in uTorrent's "Options" to select your upload profile to change the settings automatically.

10) Using Windows XP SP2? Hear about the 10 max TCP connections per sec restriction? Google it. Same applies to Vista and maybe Windows 7? I'll see.

11) In my router I set a port range 50000 to 60000 for BOTH TCP AND UDP. In your Linksys you may be able to select "Both TCP/UDP" or you'll just have to create another port forwarding rule to accommodate this for TCP and UDP.

In my uTorrent I set the port to 50000.

Why have I set uTorrent to port 50000 but create a rule in the router for 50000-60000? As another member once pointed out to me....



uTorrent will use that 50000 value as the "Base Port". It will start from there and continue upwards. In my case you can see it goes above 57000.

If you have tried all this and still having problems with Avistaz tracker....then hopefully someone around here can write a better specific guide. Just that I know its a pain in the ass to follow instructions here, its even more painful if I wrote it step-by-step "click this and press that".

I'm afraid its up to you to research since we all have different hardware and software configurations. But hopefully this will help the majority of problems.

This post has been edited by nugget: 22 March 2009 - 12:08 PM