Stuck In Finding Peers - File Not Downloading

[Serge2015 0]

Hi,

 

I installed Bittorrent a while ago on my Dell laptop and it was working fine until I got a virus on my computer and had to reinstall windows 7. I downloaded Bittorrent again and now I have some issues to make it work, I'm not a computer geek unfortunately and I was very lucky when I configured Bittorrent the first time...  I've added a verified movie file with seeds for downloading and it doesn't work, I see "finding peers" and "DHT waiting to login" but nothing happens. when I click on file I see a red bar and in "trackers" I have the messages "no such host is known - failure : connection timed out". In the Preferences window, I entered "port used for incoming connection : 6881" and I checked "enable UPnP, NAT and add windows firewall exception". In  Bittorrent features" I checked everything but "limit local peer". I also ran the test "bandwith/network"  and I got the green check marks that it is working fine. In windows firewall "inbound rules - Protocol and ports" I have TCP local port 6881" and in "outbound rules - Protocol and ports" I have "UDP Remote port 6881". I don't know what the problem is but hope somebody in this forum can give me some tips on how to fix that.

 

Thanks and have a nice day,

 

Serge

[Harold Feit 15]

It is actually not recommended to use 6881 as your listen port and may be part of the problem.

You also may need to reset your winsock.

https://iihelp.iinet.net.au/Resetting_Network_Adapter_%28Winsock_Reset%29

[Serge2015 0]

Thanks Harold it's working now after resetting winsock. What other port do you think I should use?

 

Have a nice evening,

 

Serge

[Harold Feit 15]

Use the "Random Port" button and use the port it gives you.

[Serge2015 0]

OK thanks