Here's the deal: I've had utorrent for around three weeks now. At first, using my mom's comcast connection, I was able to dl and ul with no problem. My port was recognized without even having to manually forward it. We got Verizon at the apartment about a week ago, after which I found that I couldn't get any uploads going and the little icon at the bottom of the utorrent window was yellow, ie no incoming connections. I went to ut's port searching site and it didn't recognize it. Fair enough, I thought my new router just wasn't configured, so I set up a static IP, forwarded the neccesary ports with the router and made the neccesary exeptions with my windows firewall. However, although the test site recognizes my port as being open, the icon is still intermitantly yellow, and uploads are either incredibly slow or they stop as soon as they get started. So basically, my port seems to be open but I still can't get any damn uploads to go through, which means I can't dl anything without screwing my ratio. And btw, I can't get the uploads to work at my mom's place either now.

So assuming anyone read all that, any suggestions? I'm probably going to call verizon sometime, since the issue seemingly started when I got their service. Will they talk about stuff like this? It isn't really something most ISP's seem to want to publicize.

I'm only downloading public domain material. Obviously.

I can't believe there aren't already five utorrent threads, with at least one involving the internet provider. And those are about the only threads that get responses in this form. Everyone loves them their pirated media.

btw, I went so far as to completely turn off my firewall, to no avail.

I wonder if some of the computer places around here know anything about this...

I have the same problem.

Is Verizon your ISP?

I don't begruge them for blocking these services, as they are bandwidth hogs. However, they really should put it in bold print in the terms.

I don't think it's the ISP blocking the ports, though, since I've tested with multiple sites and it's always come up as being open and accepting incoming connections. I suppose I could try setting up my comp as an external IP, but I'd want better firewalls before doing that.

nope, comcast

hmmm. What kind of router do you have?

I finally got my uploads to start working, although they're still not very fast (40-60 kb/sec). Chud, did you try going to preferences ->advanced in UT and making sure peer.lazy_bitfield is marked as true? Mine already was, but I toggled it on and off and that seemed to get the uploads going.