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a couple days ago my bittornado stoped working and all it said was that it couldnt listen and there was a problem with the upnp thing i looked on the forum for some answers and all the other people have downloaded some windows xp sp2 thing but i didnt dl that so i tried disableing the upnp port int the prefs but that just made my dling horrible. if anyone knowswhat im supposed to do plz help

go to preference and disable upnp

Out of no where I started getting this error on Sunday the 19th. Couldn't figure it out, then saw this post & disabled the uPnP in the pref. All good now!!!!

I have the same problem. It was working before, it is not working now
Well, now what have I do if I didn't istall XP SP2 and my XP firewall is disabled.

mine works but dling slower and that colored ball is staying yellow. bah a week ago i was dling at 160kbps and it was green! now its yellow and going at 25...

what is UPnP? i had the same problem, and when i disabled it, i started d/ling at 20-40 k... 2-8 times faster than it used to.

thanks for the help

UPnP is Universal Plug And Play. Theoretically it simplifies things by (in this situation) telling your router/firewall to open certain ports when needed. This is for the lazy people or the people who don't know how to manually open/forward ports.

IMO UPnP is problematic, and is just a security nightmare just waiting to happen...

but is there a way to fix it? disable it doesn't increase my download speed. it kinda set it to 40k. also does this effect any other bit torrent downloading program like azurse(i can't spell) if it just bitornado im switching

Where is the box to disable the Upnp in the Bit tornado pref? I can't seen to find it? Anyway, you guys can guide me thru this mess? PLease..........

In case you haven't found it yet, it should be right below "Default Rate Setting".

Garry

i just got this problem too. i didn't change any of my settings, how did this happen? i can turn if off, but that doesn't explain what happened.