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With Private Internet Access you get full speed access to your torrent downloads because they offer a free port forwarding option that you can point at your torrent download client. For more help see How To Port Forward with Private Internet Access.
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You should see your uTorrent Listening Port listed in the upper right of the Preferences dialog box. Make a note of it, because that is the port that needs to be open for uTorrent to work effectively for you. Note that each install of uTorrent uses a different port, so your port will likely be different than the one shown above. Also, Make sure that the Randomize port each start checkbox is not checked. You do not want the port that you need to forward changing each time uTorrent starts.
If uTorrent is currently open, you will need to completely close it at this time. Make sure that the green uTorrent icon is not still hiding in your notification area (next to your clock). If it is, right-click on it and choose "Exit". Before moving forward to things like selecting torrents, seeders, and leachers, we need to verify that your port is open. We recommend downloading our free Open Port Check Tool to test if incoming connections are being allowed through your router on your uTorrent Listening Port.
There are many ways to check if your port is open and available around the Internet. So, why do we so strongly recommend our Open Port Check Tool? Our port checker is the best on the Internet because you will never get a false-positive result. There are many websites that have open port checker tools, but these aren't guaranteed to give you an accurate report of which ports are open. These websites only tell you if a TCP Connect was successful, and have no way of detecting if UDP packets can get through.
Using our Port Checker Tool, you will need to check if your specific uTorrent Listening Port is open for both TCP and UDP. Follow the steps listed on our Port Checker Help Page. If these ports are not open, you are likely behind a device that has NAT or a firewall. You will need to forward your uTorrent Listening Port to the download client that is running uTorrent.
Port forwarding allows incoming uTorrent connections to come directly to your download client, which is exactly what you need for a peer-to-peer program like uTorrent to work correctly. Without port forwarding, those connections will be blocked by your router, and you will get a low priority from other seeds. By having your port forwarded your priority will go up and your download speed will increase drastically.
It is our mission at PortForward.com to make port forwarding easy for everyone. You can follow our free, simple port forwarding guides, which will walk you through the process. Just choose your router from the list and we'll show you a custom guide, made especially for your router and uTorrent.
Yes, we understand that a walkthrough isn't enough to satisfy everyone. If you don't feel like forwarding your ports manually, or can't figure out how to do it, you can purchase our PFConfig software that will do it for you. Our software comes with a 100% satisfaction guarantee. If it can't forward your ports, we'll do it for you.
At this point, we would like to take the time to say that there is a lot of illegal downloading and sharing in the torrent community, and portforward.com does not condone or advocate such action. That being said, there are many legal torrents out there that are free to enjoy. Whether the intended purpose of your torrenting is legal or illegal, the process of downloading a torrent is the same.
uTorrent is essentially a download manager in which you can manage the downloads of your .torrent files. It's important to note that when you are looking for torrents, you are looking for .torrent files. Many Torrent Engines will also give you the opportunity to download certain files directly. Do so at your own risk. Whenever you download from a Torrent Engine you run the risk of downloading viruses and other malware. On the flip side, torrent communities tend to do well in verifying good torrents as clean and complete, and I'll show you what to look for later in this guide.
You are finally ready to download your torrent. You've identified your uTorrent listening port and port forwarded accordingly. You've done your research, selected a torrent search engine, and have concluded on a torrent file to download based on Seeders, Leechers and Verification.
I use this uTorrent program, under its settings 'Listening port' I set up a port of 46301, and also open that port in firewall. But whoever connects to me to leech, they connect to random ports varying from 59000-59999, and of course my firewall blocks all that, so they cannot connect.
Do I have to add something in the Source Net field, or just leave it blank? I've applied the settings (Apply Settings) and rebooted the router (Administration, Management, Reboot router) but I still don't get a check mark (pass) on the port test. I also tried changing the Source Net to 0.0.0.0 but to no avail.
I've also checked the Windows Firewall settings. Two exceptions were added when uTorrent was installed, one for TCP and one for UDP. I also tried adding a port exception manually. I even tried disabling the firewall but to no avail.
I'm not sure if this matters but "Enable UPnP port mapping" and "Enable NAT-PMP port mapping" settings were enabled in uTorrent. But on the DD-WRT router, the "UPnP Service" was disabled. I have now enabled it, and also removed the manual port fortwards I had added earlier. I applied the settings and rebooted the router. Now I can see "Teredo" in NAT, UPnP, Forwards. So it seems to be doing something, but I still get the yellow check mark in uTorrent when I do the port test. While typing this, another "Toredo" entry just showed up for the second computer (192.168.0.104).
I'm not sure I want UPnP enabled. Is it safe to have UPnP Service enabled? What kind of implications does that have? Does that mean the router will be dynamically accepting all connections on all ports as they come in? I still want to manually forward the port I want.
I have disabled the UPnP Service. After doing that, the entries in the "Forward" list (as seen on the screenshot above) were removed. Also, the yougetsignal.com website reports that the port is closed. At the same time, the built-in uTorrent port test reported that the port was still open. I don't trust that, it appears to be a false positive. So I rebooted the router, and now the port is reported as closed in uTorrent as well.
I currently don't have any port forwarding rules under "Port Forwarding". Where do I go from here? How do I manually set up a single port forward in DD-WRT without having to enable UPnP Service?
Now the built-in uTorrent port test says that the port is closed, but the web based port tester says it's open. I don't trust the uTorrent port test. So I'm pretty sure it's open now, not only because Yougetsignal.com says so, but because I got upload speeds of up to 500 KB/s and that's a good sign that there is outgoing traffic now.
While typing this I've also added a forwarding rule for the second computer and rebooted the router, and after starting up uTorrent on that machine (to begin port forwarding), it too now appears as closed in uTorrent but open on the web based port tester. It was showing up as closed at first, but I solved that by starting uTorrent activity. My guess is that the router was still blocking the port until I got some network activity going on.
Note how there's a small icon in the bottom right corner of uTorrent shows a green check mark. Whatever that means... This icon used to indicate that the port is open. At least that was the case in uTorrent version 1.6 or so. But now, if I click that icon I get to the port testing dialog, as usual, and if I do the port test I get a yellow check mark and a statement saying that the selected port is closed. Now what do you make of this?... at the very best it's an ambiguous and inconclusive result. If that tells us anything at all...
I don't know why it didn't work the first time. Looking back at it now, I see that have done everything correctly. Perhaps I forgot to click on the right buttons to get the changes properly registered with the router. There is sort of a "sequence" you have to go through. You first add the lines for port forwarding, then add the information, click Save once or twice, then Apply Settings, and then reboot. It's like a ritual.
You can forward the port using UPnP Service (see update 1 and 2 above). This is not really what I want, since I only need to forward a single port (OK, two ports at most). But I'll post a small step by step guide here in case someone else finds it useful.
Start uTorrent and wait a few minutes. If you have the NAT page open in the router interface you will see when the uTorrent port is successfully forwarded. You can then try running the port test in uTorrent.
You can test this using a program such as netcat for Windows, connecting to TCP port 31090 on 192.168.0.103 from 192.168.0.104 and then repeating in the other direction. If connection succeeds, then the PCs are configured correctly (it is possible that a firewall setting allows connecting from the intranet but not from the internet, thus rendering inter-computer testing meaningless; however, I consider this possibility as remote). 2ff7e9595c
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