IMPORTANT info about CONNECTABLE status, page 11

viktor1983 V.I.P. on April 24th, 2008 / post 25038

Kamengo wrote:
Ok... so I have this question ! :)
I have followed some tips about the connectable status... and the following happened...
First I became connectable, just moments ago... when I downloaded a few torrents I got the "you are 100.0% not connectable" message in my status... The most interesting thing is that when I open the "µTorrent" I see that I am seeding, but the "you are 100.0% not connectable" message still stand in my status, what is the deal here ? can someone help ?! :)

You're seeding, and your client waits for connections, but others are unable to connect to you. (so you won't be able to upload too much until you solve the not connectable problem)

oblakoff fen on May 3rd, 2008 / post 25163

wich ports do i have to open to become "connectable"?

:)
please tell me?
:'-(

camilo0102 user on May 13th, 2008 / post 25453

thank for this songs. they are the best thing......... :thumbsup:

kostov87 chill on May 25th, 2008 / post 25607

hi from bulgaria
my name is Ivaylo
i have a big problem here
my english is not so good
i am 100% not connectable
my question is WHY?
i am sitting here 3 ouhrs and im still 100.0% not connectable.
I dont have a router
I dont have a firewall
I tried all of the tips in here and 1 of them not workt for me
please, if You know, tell me why?
my e-mail is: i_kostov87@abv.bg

It's All About Tribal Mixes

bidona user on May 26th, 2008 / post 25611

it might be your ISP, talk with them and if they cant help you change it

salahmarzo user on June 7th, 2008 / post 25744

hi allll

stoqncho user on June 22nd, 2008 / post 25916

hi all.i saw all you wrote about ports and etc.but i have a problem.My network is.... i don't even know how they call it-it is mobile sim card with some device that i put in my USB and it has a limit 3GB.anyway i checked the port i use: "Error! Port 25885 does not appear to be open." i tried to open another port but i don't know the name,the port number and whether it is tcp or udp.I also tried the links that you gave for firewall forwarding but i really couldn't understand anything there.i also tried stop and start thing but it didn't work neither. :no:

if anyone can help me i'll be very thankful.and sorry for my bad english.

compean EDIT ME!!!! on June 27th, 2008 / post 25976

ok no problem

SpasV V.I.P. on July 9th, 2008 / post 26126

Maybe it would be helpful to summarize part of what has been post?

Here I try it in short:
1. A port is a number each program, that uses TCP/IP, needs to identify itself.

2. This number is known to the Operating System but not to all other that have relation to the Internet traffic.
So, the port number has to be made known to all of them: Firewalls, Virus Protections, Network Adress Translation (NAT) - usually in a home network router.

The next condition is needed by the tracker:
3. There must NOT be errors detected by your BitTorrent program. Because these errors do not manifest themselves you have to find them using the procedure torrent stop/start or better FORCE RE-CHECK.

Skype:spas.velev

Fe Dj on August 2nd, 2008 / post 26434

hey i have already increased my ratio since a day before yesterday and i havent recieved the email for the return of my download rights what is happening with this website :angry:

bidona user on August 4th, 2008 / post 26447

the question is what wrong with you? what you mean "i have already increased my ratio"? 0.12!!! come back again when it gets to 12.0

bashandy user on August 15th, 2008 / post 26646

i dont know how to raise up my ratio

bidona user on August 16th, 2008 / post 26649

donate

(user gone) on September 9th, 2008 / post 26875

slash wrote:
great summarization. :)
anyways, there's one thing that differs this site from others - hosting. so it happens that even if you are connectable 100% on other sites, you can still experience problems here sometimes. and the last word is vert important, cause the hosting has such a feature in it, that sometimes it (probably) runs out of ports to open. this causes usually connectable people become unconnectable. why? because that's the way connectability is checked - when some peer registers at the tracker, site tries to connect to it using supplied info (ip, port). if it couldn't do it (port was wrong, firewall, proxy too), peer is assumed unconnectable. BUT. there's a solution for that - within the next 10-20 minutes of starting that torrent, stop it and start it again. almost 100% it will turn connectable (of course, if all ports and stuff are right). that is because hosting probably flushes all ports and aquires new resources by that. or if you have everything figured out and have no time to watch peers, just leave them like that, cause there's a special 'peer-watcherrrr' bot, which periodically tries to connect to all unconnectable peers and if succeeds than changes status of peer to connectable.

when we transfer to a dedicated host - there will be NO problems like that. so...

(user gone) on September 16th, 2008 / post 26937

slash wrote:
a very new addition to the CONNECTABLE quest. everyone can and must conquire firewalls and any other walls between them and other users. only through achieving connectability you will have HIGH download speeds and other sweet things. so...

1. if you are not connectable and you're new to all this topic, try to open ports in your firewall. although i'm saying this, i assume next that opening ports in firewall is easy and anyone can do it.
2. still not connectable. here we go, a universal method that helps me ,ake my client connectable no matter what...
- click on your name to see what you are leaching or seeding to see what of your torrents are connectable or not.
- select all your not-connectable peers in the client. in azureus i ctrl-click them to mark them all together. say in burst you cannot do that, so you will need to do all steps for each torrent, which is not too cool. i make 40 unconnectable peers into connectable ones in azureus in just two mouse clicks.
- stop them. do not pause, but stop. in burst or bit-tornado you will have to close that.
- limit total upload speed to some smaller value. when done don't forget to increase it later to 80% of what it can do. less is greedy and selfish, more is bad for downloading or surfing the internet. again, azureus lets you do that easy, while others can be pain.
- wait a minute or so, refresh your info, see if all of them disappeared. memorize the values on top of the screen for your peer_report, to see later what happened when you start all torrents again.
- start all those torrents that you have marked. wait a minute. refresh info. check.
- here we can have three results:
.. all torrents are said connectable. good!
.. all ned peers are not connectable! worse, but not too bad. solution is : wait five to ten minutes and do everything again. see what happens. honestly, i do this always, and every time it helps 100%. so if you wait and let it stay for 5-10 minutes and then start them, they all become connectable with 95% chance. changing port or range of ports in client will also help a lot!
.. some are connectable, some still aren't. repeat same thing in a few minutes for lesser amount of torrents.

i still need to figure out if there's something to do with hosting, but here's the best solution for now. do it and see what happens!

ps by the way, if you click this link, you will see (if the file is still on the website) a list of peers for this torrent, saying how many are seeding or leaching, and who is connectable. you can check it on any torrent scrolling down to the peers area and clicking see full list link.