I have a gray light status(port listen). I have done everything i know from reading the forums. I am very certain that i am using a modem and not a router. Coz i had to buy an additional router to set up wireless. Now i don use the router, only the modem. I just upgraded from 0.7 to 0.96 Bit Comet.
I have created 2 sets of TCP/UDP ports 1)For BitComet 1)For E-Donkey Plugin
I have checked Undnp and bitcomet TCP/UDP in The windows firewall exceptions.
I have gone to ADD OR REMOVE WINDOWS COMPONENT in networking services, details to install Undnp and p2p networking. I practically checked everything and install
I suddenly received yellow status then it went back to gray after few hours. My download speed when it was yellow (350Kbs), gray (20Kbs)MAX.
Before doing all of the above
When i go run,cmd,ipconfig… i only had IP ADDRESS,Subnet MasK and Default Gateway.
Now i have ip Address, Subnet mask, ip address(again but sime random fe80::213:72ff:fe06:21f8%4)then default gateway..My gateway had a .1 at the end, which is strange coz its not a router.
plus after a line i have Tunnel adapter Teredo tunneling Pseudo -Interface
I seem to have the same problems as a few others here in that while I followed most of the steps to the T (see why most below) I still get:
Ping Reply: RECEIVED (FAILED) — Your system REPLIED to our Ping (ICMP Echo) requests, making it visible on the Internet. Most personal firewalls can be configured to block, drop, and ignore such ping requests in order to better hide systems from hackers. This is highly recommended since “Ping” is among the oldest and most common methods used to locate systems prior to further exploitation.
I tripled checked all the steps, and as far as I am aware (and I am no expert but I’m pretty sure that) the only firewall I have is the one that comes with Windows XP and I told my 2wire router to chill
The only thing I don’t understand is step 6. : When you come to the step where it states “Please enter the static ip you want to forward to:” And it’s 192.168.2.[space here] Input the last digit of your IP address into the space. The Static IP is the same IP Address as the one you saw in MS-DOS when you typed ipconfig/all
I am never prompted with the “Please enter…” I’m not even sure where that’s supposed to come up. Could this be my problem? I’m stuck and frustrated… although I am getting decent speeds…occasionally hitting the triple digits so I guess I have nothing to complain about, although after I installed a version of iolo System Mechanic, my computer would get the blue screen and restart… I still don’t know why but the problem stopped when I uninstalled it. Wierd. If you can help me, my gf will bear your children!
Hi im facing the same problems as manu are doing so. I have set my port and router but still the yellow light is still there. My port number is 65535. can someone please help me
You must choose and set a static IP in your windows network TCP/IP properties. It will offer you a choice of obtaining an IP address automatically, or of using the following IP address, gateway, dns servers, etc. You must choose the latter and set all those options, in order to have a static IP address, as explained at portforward.com. You pick the address you want to use subject to the constraints of your router. This is the address you then enter.
hi everybody, im new here. anyway i cant locate my router in this website. im using the router Dlink DWL G730. so erm can i still do this port forwarding thing? erm im not exactly a tech whiz so step by step help will be appreciated. thanks a lot! =) sorry if im posting this in the wrong topic.
Hello,
I hve followed your fine instructions on setting up WAN and Listen ports etc., and am now getting download speeds of 10-12kB/s, which is not very fast. Can you suggest how to improve this further,
As a matter of curiosity, I too am still confronted with the gray light.
Even after forwarding my port (59873) to my WRT54G router. GRX calls this port ‘stealth’, and CanYouSeeMe doesn’t see it because the connection times out (?).
The download speed is marginally faster, but the gray light bugs me. Do I have reason to be bugged?
You must choose and set a static IP in your windows network TCP/IP properties. It will offer you a choice of obtaining an IP address automatically, or of using the following IP address, gateway, dns servers, etc. You must choose the latter and set all those options, in order to have a static IP address, as explained at portforward.com. You pick the address you want to use subject to the constraints of your router. This is the address you then enter.
thanks for the reply kluelos. i do have static ip, any other ideas?
The point of this exercise, the reason we do this, is so that other peers can successfully initiate contact with you. A firewall’s job is to prevent exactly that, because most computers that want to initiate contact with you intend it for malicious purposes, or at least to send you ads.
If your list of peers shows any connections whose initiation is “REMOTE”, you have achieved the objective. If a port test at canyouseeme.org shows your listen port as open, you have achieved the objective. You’ve done it, gray light or no gray light.
If not, if your port still shows as anything except “open”, then you still have one or more firewalls blocking the listen port. This is the gospel. It is your task to find them and configure them, if they can be configured.
Hello. I’m new here. Never needed to post to forums before. I’ve been using Bitcomet for a while now. Today, for no reason I can see, and 83% through a download, I was blocked. Not knowing this was regular occurrence I uninstalled Bitcomet, downloaded the latest version, installed again (got the torrent again as the uninstall had removed them all) and tried again only to still be blocked.
I came to forums, read the guide and have done everything in the guide regarding making static IP’s. I got my green light back for a couple of hours but even though there were seeders I had 0kb/s download speed according to Bitcomet (even tho my router indicated it was downloading something). Now I have a big orange light again.
Could someone please explain how you get blocked during a download and after numerous successful downloads, how you can fix the problem but not get any data, how it happens again after you’ve fixed it and how I can get data to download again?
If you have a router, when you hook your computer up to it, the default setup is that the router assigns the computer an iP address. that address is leased. it can change at any time. Normally, the change causes no visible effects.
the router’s firewall rules require, for security, that an open port be open ONLY to a particular IP address. If you are doing this, then your computer must be at that IP address. If it’s at some other address, or changes to some other address, the port for that other address will be blocked. that’s how you get blocked in the midst of a download.
the solution is to set a fixed, static and unchanging IP address for the computer, and to set the firewall rule to open the listen port for that address.
As I explained in my post I have already changed my IP.
I ended up using another client and this file stopped in exactly the same place. That would indicate to me it’s a problem with the torrent and it should be removed. If you intend to do that I will paste which one it is.
A blocked listen port does not mean that you cannot download at all.
It just means that your download will probably be a lot slower than it otherwise could be.
So a torrent download won’t just stop simply because your listen port is suddenly blocked. These are two, entirely different issues.
For the torrent stoppage, first check if there are any seeders for it. Check the Health/Availability. If this is below 100% or 1.0, then there’s nobody in the swarm with a complete copy of the file, and it will not complete unless it a seeder joins the swarm. YOu can try to find the origin site and request a reseed there. Sometimes that works. Otherwise, you may have to just delete what you have and find another torrent with the same material.
If the health is ok, check to see if the file’s being “super-seeded”. In this case, most of the other peers will have the same download percentage as you, which will slowly increase as the super-seeder gives out additional pieces. During the first part of the download you were receiving pieces from everyone else in the swarm, but now that you’ve “caught up” and have all the pieces the super-seeder has already released, it’ll be a lot slower for the rest of the download.
If it says “stealth” then you still have a firewall somewhere, blocking the port.
there are three types of firewalls you need to be concerned about. First is software firewalls running on your computer. You can easily have more than one, and not necessarily know it. For this, you need to use the process list from Task Manager, and google, to positively identify all of the processes running on your machine.
The second type is firmware firewalls in your equipment. This generally refers to routers, but includes all your network hardware. it’s up to you to read the manuals and to understand whether they include firewalls.
the third type is external, and imposed on you by your network provider. These are most often seen in situations where the building or facility is providing you with a network jack - dormitories, apartments, offices where the internet service is included. Also most types of wireless radio service. Typically you can’t do anything about these and must stick with the “no listen port” setting.
I understand…but I have checked my AVG and windows firewall and they are both allowing it. I have also tried to set up my router to port forwarding but encountered a problem which i need help with… please can u read my post in “speed problems” forum? Thanks.
Nope, not your ISP. You need to figure out why you can’t configure the router, and for this, your router’s manual is your best bet. The instructions at portforward.com are intended as a supplement to, and not a replacement for, reading the manual and understanding it.
Trying different ports will not help. You don’t “find” an open port, you set one to open. Your router calls this a “virtual server”, as some do, while others call it “port-forwarding”, but it’s the same thing.
A common reason for failure is that you have not set a static IP address for your computer. You can’t skip this step, your router will require that you specify the IP address that the port/server will be open for.
hi i have olso a yelow light, i checked my ip and default gateway as asked and they are perfect the same …but i don’t have internet with modem, i have internet in the local area called RDS…how could i solve my problem
Hi, I think I might have a problem. I followed the instructions on port forwarding and setting up a static IP. I assigned port number 64250 to bitcomet. I did the trustealth test and the results were that my port was open. Regardless, my bitcomet’s said that the assigned listening port’s status were still unknown. I’ve tried everything I can but my download speeds are still slow (at about 20 kpbs and less). Someone, plese help.
