Serge2015 0 Report post Posted March 13, 2015 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 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Harold Feit 15 Report post Posted March 13, 2015 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 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Serge2015 0 Report post Posted March 14, 2015 Thanks Harold it's working now after resetting winsock. What other port do you think I should use? Have a nice evening, Serge Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Harold Feit 15 Report post Posted March 14, 2015 Use the "Random Port" button and use the port it gives you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Serge2015 0 Report post Posted March 14, 2015 OK thanks Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites