ktorrent version 2.2.5

In a router upgrade (from linksys WRT54G to d-link DIR-655) I had a little trouble opening ports with the UPnP plugin - The "No incomming connections (possibly firewalled)" icon was correctly reporting a problem.

After twiddling options in the router, the UPnP plugin was able to open ports, but the no connections icon is still displayed, even though I have no problem connecting to peers, and download rates are exemplary.

Does anybody know why is the icon still showing ?

That you can connect to peer does not mean that you're connectable; those connections could easily be outgoing connections.

It's probably just that the UPnP plugin does not work correctly with you type of router, so you'll need to forward a port by NAT to fix this.

From my understanding of things, wouldn't that make it impossible to have connected seeders and leechers? I have very good transfer rates, and in a particular torrent I had Seeders 23(23) and Leechers 43(43). At some point I even had more connections on seeders than the parenthesized number. I beleive that those connections come from dht. The UPnp plugin reports having correctly forwarded my ports.

davidoff wrote:From my understanding of things, wouldn't that make it impossible to have connected seeders and leechers?

No, being a seeder or leecher has nothing to do with being connectable.


The icon shows until you get an incoming connection, only then are we absolutely certain that you are connectable. Though maybe it is better if we just make it go away once ports are succesfully forwarded.

No, being a seeder or leecher has nothing to do with being connectable.

I understand that, I was referring to the the status numbers of leechers and seeders. For example in the Leechers column there are two numbers #1 (#2), the first would be the number of connected, and the parenthesized would be the total number of leechers in the swarm right ? So what you mean is that all those connected could be originated by my machine (myMachine -> others) only, and no incoming connection (others -> myMachine) ?

An image is worth a thousand words.

In the snapshot linked above, is the France client connected to myClient, or is it myClient that initiated the connection?

How would I be able to have very high download speeds if nobody could connect to my client ?

Thanks for your patience, this discussion will but things back into place.

davidoff wrote:An image is worth a thousand words.

In the snapshot linked above, is the France client connected to myClient, or is it myClient that initiated the connection?

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How would I be able to have very high download speeds if nobody could connect to my client ?

If you can connect to a big seeder, you can get high download speeds.