![]() ![]() Since firewalled users can only make outgoing connections, and cannot accept incoming connections, it is natural that they (the firewalled users) cannot connect to each other. You must then realize that you might not be the only firewalled user in the swarm. That means that if someone else tries to initiate a connection with you, the attempt is blocked by your firewall. ![]() While this is true, that's all you are limited to. Many firewalled users find themselves thinking "Hey, I'm firewalled, but I can still transfer the files, so it must mean I'm okay!" What they fail to realize is that being firewalled does not necessarily mean you cannot download at all, as firewalled users can still make outgoing connections, connecting to peers to transfer data in that way. In µTorrent, if you are unable to get a green network status icon after a long period of transferring different torrents, it is an indication that you might be in a firewalled state. Since µTorrent works best when it can connect freely to other peers, blocked or reduced access to other peers will adversely affect the download speeds a user can expect to achieve.īeing unable to accept incoming connections means your computer is in a firewalled state. This can sometimes be a problem with an individual torrent (a lack of quality seeds, for example), but it is also possible that the user is not allowing incoming connections to reach his computer, and thus, is not making optimal use of µTorrent's ability to connect to peers with that torrent. A large portion of the time, users complain that they are not getting great speeds with µTorrent. ![]()
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