Generally, all wireless systems like RDS are going to have you behind a router/firewall that you won’t be able to configure. This means you’ll just have to live with slower speeds on P2P because other peers can’t get through that firewall to contact you.
Thinkerpad, check your port at canyouseeme.org. If the answer’s anything except “yes”, then it’s “no”.
As you should have read, the point of all this is to get those remote initiations. That’s what you should have looked at first and reported here. If you’ve got them, you’re good. If you don’t, you’ve got a problem. Whatever BitComet reports as your status is secondary to that. If you don’t have them, then that’s one reason your downloads may be slow. If you do, then you have to look at other reasons.
As you also should have read, this just deals with the firewall in your router. Other firewalls you may have or may be behind are a separate issue and also need to be solved.
I have done everything that the guide told me to do, i have done portforwarding, my port is 60000,i have a static ip,my firewall is not blocking bitcomets port as i use windows firewall but still i have that yellow light. Pls. help as i’ve been trying and trying.
This yellow light only appears when i download something via my own internet router/connection. When i connect my laptop to some other router/connection i dont get the green light.
I went through https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2, it says:
results from probe of port: 60000
0 Ports Open
0 Ports Closed
1 Ports Stealth
My static ip is 192.168.1.136
This yellow light only appears when i download something via my own internet router/connection. When i connect my laptop to some other router/connection i dont get the green light.
Sorry, could you try saying that again? I don’t understand it.
Sorry, could you try saying that again? I don’t understand it.
When i use some other router, the light is green.
I have a Beetel 220BX router
The obvious reason would be that this other router has its firewall turned off. If that’s really so, you need to make very sure that you have a software firewall running, for you are otherwise very vulnerable to attack.
Your results indicate that when you are connected to your router, you’re being blocked by a firewall. It won’t tell you which firewall, and if you have more than one it can get really confusing.
Try getting your router out of the loop and connecting directly to the modem, rejiggering your network connection for DHCP to do this. If things now work, you know it was indeed the router, and this suggests that you have not set up the forwarding rule correctly, or that it does not work. Examine the rule carefully, make sure that the parameters are what you think they are. Try creating another rule from scratch with the correct parameters. If what you did was to activate one of the router-s built-in rules, be aware that these are almost always wrong and should not be used.
I have the same problem like shivamrockz. I followed all the instructions given here in the forum and I am using port 49152 and sometimes I changed it according to the portforward, The DHT network connection status is green while the BT client connection status is always yellow and the IP address (222.XXX.XXX.XX) is blocked.. I’ve tried the test too and I got 1 Port Stealth.
How can I make the color turn to green?
I am using port 49152 and sometimes I changed it according to the portforward
Could you explain what you mean, please? Is port 49152 the one that you selected, when you set up a Static IP address?
Could you explain what you mean, please? Is port 49152 the one that you selected, when you set up a Static IP address?
I followed all the steps from 1-7 in the thread and accrding to step 5, I am using the listening port 21656 now. But in the site https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 the port state it’s in stealth. My firewall is not blocking the bitcomet application. The yellow light appears only these month when I switch my DSL connection to another DSL internet provider which uses the prolink H5200. When I connect my laptop to some other router/connection i get the green light.
All right, let’s forget about the light, for a moment. If you look at your Peers column/tab (you don’t specify which version of BitComet you use), do you see any “Remote” connections, or are they all “Local”?
If you have Remote initiations, it means that your port is open and others can connect to you - in which case, you should ignore the light, regardless of its colour.
If your connections are all “Local” and, after having tested your port at canyouseeme.org, the result is anything other than “Success”, this means that you have a firewall (one that you may not even be aware of) that is blocking your listen port. You may have configured your Windows firewall and your router’s firewall, but there is still (at least) one, somewhere, that is doing the blocking. You will have to find it and configure it, properly.
Under no circumstances should you disable all of your firewalls - this would only make you the best possible target for malicious software to be installed. Never, ever connect to the Internet, without having at least, one active firewall.
i know how to open a port but there is something odd that just happened today i haven’t opened the bicomet 4 about 2 weeks but 2day i was trying 2 use it and soothing unusual happened i got gray light and beside it there is detect failed its not the usual unknown beside the gray light it says detect failed so can any1 help me in how to deal with that??
i also would like to add i tried check again and restarting the program sevral times but it always ends up the same way (detect failed) please help!!!
thanks
The Comet server seems to be down, so don’t bother with it anymore for now. It will come back.
If your port status was OK before this it still is. If you really want to check it now read here.
Im having a problem setting up BitComet Version 1.6. The message Im getting on the bar at the bottom is a yellow icon with a message that says the listen port (which I have set for 60002) is blocked and to check firewall and NAT router configuration. At the statistics tab it says that both the UDP and TCP listen ports are bvlocked by a firewall or router.
My operating system is Win Vista.
Ive tried to follow the guides, but what Im seeing in the various dialogue boxes doesnt match the screen shots in the guides. Ive tried both setting the exceptions in Windows firewall and the Router static IP setup, coming as close as I could, but neither worked.
My internet connection is through a ZTE MF626 USB modem, but from what I have read in the guides it appears that the modem is recognized as a router. When I did the ipconfig it came up
Dirección IPv4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.9.94.8
Máscara de subred . . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255
Puerta de enlace predeterminada . . . . . : 0.0.0.0
O yeah, the other thing is Im using a spanish version of Vista which doesnt make it any easer and the service provider is Claro Guatemala.
At any rate, the ip address and gateway (puerta de enlace predeterminada?) are different.
Any advice would be appreciated
Thanks
You are definitely behind a router, because your IP address begins with 10. The whole 10.xxx.xxx.xxx address block is reserved for private subnets and can’t be legally used out on the internet proper.
The question is, whose router is it?
Your modem is not a router. It is a cellular-type modem. All cellular modems that I’ve encountered so far, and the vast majority of all wireless connections of any sort, are on private networks, behind routers and more importantly, behind firewalls.
This is a router/firewall that you do not control, and as a result, probably cannot get an open listen port set up on. (All port-forwarding instructions re intended for routers/firewalls that you control and can configure yourself.) Most large networks won’t even discuss setting up a static IP and open port for you, and the cellular providers especially won’t. It could too easily interfere with other customers, and fail to provide you service up to their promised standard.
That means you’ll probably have to stay in no-listen mode, and just accept the lower speeds that means.
Thanks Kluelos. Guess I’ll just have to suffer. Im out in the boonies here on Lake Atitlan without other options. But Im happy just to have an internet connection. Thanks for the prompt replie.
Hello i have a Linksys rouder i have opened the ports as i should which i have it on a random port which is 14885 and i’m trying to see what is wrong with it. so the thing i’m downloading has 4/74 and the Ip is blocked i have tried closing my router firewall which didnt work i have all ports opened on this computer which didnt work can you help me with my dilema?
@ Trelltan: Not unless you read and provide all the info from the “Read This Before Posting” announcement on top of this section, along with a detailed description of what steps you have followed trying to correct the problem.
Just “i have opened the ports as i should” doesn’t cut it.
i have done all the steps i can take but i’m on Windows XP Black and i am still receiving a block signal on bitcomet i have registered network and that didnt show up i d/c my connection and did it through that way didnt work also i have added the Nat port mapping device through firewall etc.. and still nothing i do not know what i did wrong or why it is blocking. please help me 
can anyone make a very fed up man reinterested in this crap that goes on .
I have two computers ,one with vista home ,the other with xp and i am an orange live box router broadband customer .The xp (in fact two xp machines ) are showing with port forward open and always have .
The vista machine i have never been able to get it working with the same port …
I have been with this internet thing right from the start and i am no novice by any stretch of the imagination ( but am i ,i am starting to ask )
the way the net is going is the way real life is in our day …a one that keeps people in the dark ,and by that token things will always be kept one step ahead of you untill whatever it is they want is so ingrained that we truely believe we cannot do without it …slowly taking the means to make desisions out of individual hands .its called the squeeze ,and well tried and tested ( but it doesnt stop us falling for it every time )
So why isnt the vista machine accepting the same port as the xp machines …because the new machine wants something from you …it wants you to walk blindly into whatever it is they want ( while making you think you have walked that way to get something you wanted )
Yes and every angle is covered as if you revert back to an old system …you are left with a load of componenets out of your hard earned cash spent that you have to break laws to stay with what you know how to use ( remembering who and whatever THEY are ,do not want you to know )
But we follow the rules just like fools …because we believe we are resisting .
forget it,ill probably have it uninstalled before i get an answere
Apologies if this is not the right place for this post - I’m new.
A detail about the advice on opening the Listen Port that I didn’t find in the Help areas is that you need to turn off SPI (Stateless Packet Inspection , I believe) in your router as well as turning off its firewall.
I have a Huawei EchoLife HG520b router and it has separate options for Firewall and SPI, on the same page. When I eventually disabled both of them the Listen Port was opened immediately. Previously I had enabled UPnP as your Help instructed. I found this idea on another forum.