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hi,
i'm having strange problem with BT
on most torrents i've downloaded the status light is greena and the d/l speeds are usually ~60Kb (which is round my max)
but on some the status lights yellow and speeds quite slow (~5k)
can anyone tell me why sometiimes i am firewalled and then not?

i've ran two [different] torrents simultaneouly - one of them is green other is yellow.

any ideas why?

o and thanks if any ones replied to this

Click "Details" in the download window when it is green and of the download window when it is yellow. Look at the "announce url." It will look sort of like: http://tracker.somesite.com/announce

After the tracker url's address ("tracker.somesite.com") and before the path ("/announce"), there will be a colon (":") and a port number ( such as "6969"). A sample tracker site with a port number looks like:
http://tracker.somesite.com:6969/announce which is an example of a tracker on port "6969." If the tracker doesn't have a colon and a port number between the site name and the path (looks sort of like this: http://tracker.somesite.com/announce), then it is on port 80.

Now, knowing how to identify the ports, do you see any pattern in the tracker's ports with respect to a certain download status? Are the ones you are yellow with on download on a specific port, like port "80" or "6969" ? Are the ones you are mostly green with on a specific port? Does it happen regardless of the port?

thanks for replying,
i've checked, and it happens regardless of the ports used...

Maybe you opened only one port for bittornado, but you need one port for every instance of bittornado, e.g. two downloads running need two open ports (usually port 6881 and upwards, see Bittornado, Prefs).