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I can't get the stupid yellow light to go away

You have to forward the ports used by bittornado to your local IP. Per default bittornado uses port 6881 (-6899).

What type of Netgear router do you have?

MR814v2

If you are running XP, it could be an XP firewall problem. I have a Netgear DG834G, and I had a war going on between the XP firewall and the DG834G. There was about 5KB/sec of LAN traffic back and forth when it should have been silent. I "turned off" the XP firewall under the LAN control panel, but the war continued. I finally solved it by going into ädd/remove programs" "add/remove windows components" and remove the firewall component from XP. That fixed the traffic and opened my ports.

Port forwarding with this router is described here: http://kbserver.netgear.com/kb_web_files/n101145.asp#RP614Anchor
You have to add a "Custom Service", start port 6881, end port 6899, enter a name and apply the settings. Then choose this service under "Service & Game" and enter the server IP, that's the IP of the computer that runs bittornado. Click "Add Server", the settings should now appear in the list.
Go to http://btfaq.com/natcheck.pl and see if it works.

With bittornado version 0.3.0+ you can also try to use UPNP. You have to install UPNP on winXP through "add/remove windows components", "network services".

It.... WORKED!!! YAHOO!!! *dances*

Yay, fast download

Thanks for the help.

What do you mean "serice under "Service & Game"?

The names are because of the way you set up port forwarding with this router. You first have to create a "custom service", that's a port range with a specific name, i.e. Bittornado. Then you can select the "custom service" named Bittornado from the "service & game" list and apply an ip for it. With the ports and ip you then create a (virtual) server which is the same as port forwarding.

zidane what did you do? did u uninstall windows firewall or did you do the things punisher told you to do

hi punisher, do you NEED a static ip when you do this

hey, you know when you open a port it says the port number 6xxx and stuff... then it asks for ip

what ip do i put

192.168.0.1 ?

With a non-static ip the router could assign you a new ip, i.e. after you reboot your computer, so you always have to check that you forward the ports to the correct ip. With a static ip you manually set an ip on your computer, so it does not change.

To set a static ip on your computer, go to the tcp/ip options of the lan connection to your router and fill in:
IP Address: 192.168.0.x (x is a number from 2 to 254)
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.0.1 (that's the ip address of the router)
DNS Server: 192.168.0.1 ( - '' - )

If you're using the xp sp1 firewall, i suggest to disable it, because it protects you not more than your router does. You can use the sp2 firewall if you want, the firewall should ask you the first time you start bittornado, just choose to allow it.

When you set up port forwarding, you always have to put in the IP where you want to forward the ports to, that means the IP of the computer that runs bittornado or any other program that needs some ports forwarded.

ok so

Ip ADress: 192.168.0.2
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway: 192.168.0.1

Preferred DNS server = ?
Alternate DNS server = ?

Prefered DNS Server: 192.168.0.1
Alternate DNS Server: empty

If you get an IP already in use message, the router has currently assigned you the 192.168.0.2 ip. So either reboot without the router connected to your computer or take another number for the last part of the ip.