cant listen to port ??

i downloaded bitcomet 0.70 and im using windows xp sp2 and windows firewall

everytime i open bitcomet an error message comes up saying it was unable to listen on port 18734

and in the bottom right hand corner it says dht not connected ive enabled my firewall to allow bitcomet access so why cant it connect ??? can anyone help me …thanks

Do a quick read through of our settings guide, and turn on the option for ICS & ICF.