Sabum Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 So installed win7 and installed the latest bittorent, loaded all my torrents into it.... and they all have red arrows, I tried downloading 2 new torrents and they are stuck at red arrows too. Been using bittorent for years and never had a connection problem. Tried to troubleshoot it but the bittorent site and preferences is way more confusing than it needs to be. My internet connection is fine, also the red arrows dont change regardless of whether I have windows firewall up or not, bittorent is of course on the exceptions list and I am currently not using any 3rd party antivirus software..... any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hillshaveeyes Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 It might have to do with your installation of Win7. If you still have the "old" installation (XP? Vista?) check there and if everything works fine, Win7 is the cause. Some ISPs block certain ports. Try changing the port # of your connections. Some ISPs do "traffic shaping" which includes "deep inspection" of the packets going in and out. If there is a way to work around this, I am not aware of it. HTH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubblegum Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 Download "Simple Portforewarding" it easy to use and opens up the ports some ISP's might block. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabum Posted February 5, 2010 Author Share Posted February 5, 2010 Hope that works but having doubts, I have installed bittorent many times and never had any problems or had to forward ports and now suddenly I do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubblegum Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 Hope that works but having doubts, I have installed bittorent many times and never had any problems or had to forward ports and now suddenly I do? Not sure but for me on XP it worked, don't know much about W7, sorry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thanh-BKK Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 Hi. As you have replaced your Windows version you may have to allow BitTorrent through the Windows Firewall. I don't know how exactly it would work in Windows 7 but the Firewall and it's settings are available from the Control Panel. Kind regards..... Thanh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabum Posted February 5, 2010 Author Share Posted February 5, 2010 Hi.As you have replaced your Windows version you may have to allow BitTorrent through the Windows Firewall. I don't know how exactly it would work in Windows 7 but the Firewall and it's settings are available from the Control Panel. Kind regards..... Thanh Ya I said in my first post that I allowed it through the firewall and even completely disabled it to try. Nothing worked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammycic Posted February 6, 2010 Share Posted February 6, 2010 Hi.As you have replaced your Windows version you may have to allow BitTorrent through the Windows Firewall. I don't know how exactly it would work in Windows 7 but the Firewall and it's settings are available from the Control Panel. Kind regards..... Thanh Ya I said in my first post that I allowed it through the firewall and even completely disabled it to try. Nothing worked. switch to utorrent 2.0 will setup itself up just fill in the blanks in setup guide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabum Posted February 6, 2010 Author Share Posted February 6, 2010 I'll have to check when i get back to the office but I'm positive I installed the latest version 2? just recently so.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetsetBkk Posted February 6, 2010 Share Posted February 6, 2010 http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Stupid-Isp-B...t&p=3321478 My middle man isp blocks torrents, fair enough, I had to accept that years ago. http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Bittorent-Co...t&p=3319036 Been using bittorent for years and never had a connection problem. Confusing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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