I think the reason why I have always had problems with torrents is that my router isn't set up properly to allow people to access torrents I have. My ratio is always terrible for sites I have belonged to (and have been banned from for this reason). I've heard things like port forwarding and NAT and shit, and I don't really know how to get it all set up so I can do this proper. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

http://portforward.com/routers.htm

That might help you... If not then someone else may be able to explain in a lot simpler terms..

Thanks for the quick turnaround. Now let's see if I can figure this out.

Azureus is still saying I have an NAT problem. Whatever the fuck that means. I fucking hate insomnia.

I won't link to another place, instead I'll just quote the post I think would help you best..If you don't understand (I don't expect anyone to pick this all up quickly, it's a right pain in the arse.) just let me know and I'll give you the link to the topic.



Edit: This could help too http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/NAT_problem

I always thought I was tech savvy, but I don't understand a lot of this. Or I think I do, but get lost when I try to do it. So fucking frustrating.

Have you tried micro torrent?


http://www.filehippo.com/download_utorrent/

Is there a mac version?

i use utorrent. um, all of the sudden half my torrents turn red and nothing will download. yea.

all of my torrents are red. wtf.

OK so I forward my ports and set up the IP,DNS numbers etc and then I get all green arrows from u-torrent but then next time I turn on the computer it has all reset itself and I'm back to yellow. Is this normal? How do I get it to keep my settings?

Cheers

how do u know its reseted?

its normal to be yellow if youre not downloading/uploading nothing

No its yellow on torrents which should still be active. Also if I look back in the network connections settings they have returned to their default values.

thats fucked up

xp?

Vista

But should work much the same XP most other things do.