Azures NAT problems after raising the speed

matmimi · 17-03-2005, 14:15

Since I upgraded my speed to 3Mbit, I could not go above 5KB/sec....So I'm not sure if NTL started blocking certain popular ports to limit the bandwidth we use. I did try different ports up to 50,000+ but w/o result!!!

My system is XP SP2, and I already did patch the tcp sys file to unlimited and did turn off that thing in the boot.ini and I don't use a router, yet I have NAT problems!!! As I said before upgrading the speed I did not have any NAT problems.

So before upgrading your speed try to use a Bittorrent clien and then check right after upgrading the speed and tell us your experience!!!!

Hopefully this subject is not a taboo here, otherwise feel free to delete the post and I apologize for that!!

DieDieMyDarling · 17-03-2005, 14:44

I've been using torrents no problem. It could be a problem with your firewall, in your torrent settings, try setting the ports to 50,000 - 60,000, then setting those ports up on your firewall. Also, have you made sure the actual torrent settings are ok? For example make sure the upstream is set to a decent rate, as the download rate is reliant on that.

Have you tried various trackers? The files you are trying to get just might be badly seeded, or well seeded by people with no upstream. I've noticed recently on some trackers, people are seeding, but have no free upstream, so you get 3 seeds, no peers, and still only 2k/sec. They must be using something like azureus. Also, have you tried other programs? I use BitTornado myself, i've not had a problem with it.

matmimi · 17-03-2005, 14:54

even if the file is badly seeded you should not have any NAT problems. I tried ABC but that did not solve the problem.

I'm not complaining about the speed since I can max my line if I downloaded for instance a demo game....my biggest concern is the NAT problems. Those yelow smile faces are realy annoying.

Stephen · 17-03-2005, 14:57

Since the upgrade I now get NAT errors on my router only, without the router is fine. I have tried changing ports adding ports to my firewall and the router but sill no luck at all.

matmimi · 17-03-2005, 14:59

When you upgraded your speed, were you using your router?

Ignition · 17-03-2005, 16:37

No port blocking in use, no traffic shaping in use, nothing ntl have done that'd cause this. Upgrade shouldn't have affected BT usage in any way. If it apparently did it's coincidental.

Or you were upgraded wrongly... which modem are you using, and what IP address does your PC report having?

Stephen · 17-03-2005, 17:49

Quote:

Originally Posted by matmimi

When you upgraded your speed, were you using your router?

Yes

Caster · 17-03-2005, 19:39

The transparent web proxy can cause problems so if available try to connect to the tracker on another port (not 80).

downquark1 · 17-03-2005, 21:53

Try over riding the ip address sent to the tracker.

I think it can be found in the "tracker: client" option in azeurus. Make sure the address you put in is the WAN address the router has been given.