Azureus: Health Red

[arwell2]

I'm am still very new to using bittorrent clients and downloading files, so bear with me on my ignorance about a lot of this stuff. I am using the new version of Azureus 2.2.0.2. I am currently accessing my internet through a wireless connection on a university campus, so needless to say I have a Nat problem. My health is always yellow but I have been fairly successful in downloading files (just slow). However, I ran into some problems today where it told be that the tracker was "scrape" and that it had lost the connection. I was able to get it to see the tracker again but now my health is red on all my files and I even tried another tracker elsewhere and it is red as well. I am not uploading either, my seeded files are all blue. I have gone red before with some files while other stayed yellow, but it has always gone back after a while. This may be due to being behind the universitys firewall and such but I am hoping there is a way to fix it. I have tried varying my connection ports but nothing seems to help. If anyone has had this problem and has any advice, please help. Thanks

[cpugeniusmv]

It's very likely due to the University's firewall.

Turn off any firewall you may be running, and go to ShieldsUp (http://www.google.com/search?q=shieldsup&btnI=I'm+Feeling+Lucky). Run a scan on "All Service Ports". That should tell you what's open (if anything).

If nothing's open, you're pretty much out of luck.

[arwell2]

Thanks. Looks like I am in very tight stealth settings, even with my firewalls gone....*sigh* Nothing has changed though in my personal settings since I originally downloaded stuff last week and this weekend. Anyone have any suggestions or ideas? I opened the BitTorrent client 4.0.1 and tried downloading on it and it looks like I am receiving some information, though very irregularly, b/c I have a dled speed of 1-3kb/s and I have received a few MB of information. Could there be something wrong with azureus? This is all so frustrating.

[cpugeniusmv]

Did any of the ports show up as Closed or Open?

[Shareaza2005]

I had a problem with ABC Bittorrent for a while, but when I started downloading torrents with other clients, They seemed to go pretty fast. This is probably just the different torrents, and who's sharing, but even with other torrent clients, some seemed better than others. Just me, or is it in the coding?

[cpugeniusmv]

[...] but even with other torrent clients, some seemed better than others. Just me, or is it in the coding?
To a limited extent, sure.

But it doesn't really make much of a difference. I've seen multiple megabytes/second on Azureus, Bittornado, and the original client (haven't tried any others).

[arwell2]

none of the ports said they were closed or open. They were all green, indicating my computer is completely in stealth mode.

it gave me this statement before I went to the website:
"Your Internet connection has no Reverse DNS
Many Internet connection IP addresses are associated with a DNS machine name. (But yours is not.) The presence of "Reverse DNS", which allows the machine name to be retrieved from the IP address, can represent a privacy and possible security concern for Internet consumers since it may uniquely and persistently identify your Internet account — and therefore you — and may disclose other information, such as your geographic location.
When present, reverse DNS is supported by Internet service providers. But no such lookups are possible with your current Internet connection address. That's generally a good thing."

Basically when I tested all the sevice ports as well as some custom port probe this is what it says
"TruStealth: PASSED - ALL tested ports were STEALTH,
- NO unsolicited packets were received,
- NO Ping reply (ICMP Echo) was received."

I know that the university's firewall can create difficulties with filesharing and that it is hard to bypass this since their settings and IP addresses are unknown (at least thats what I have been told) but most say you can bypass it by trying different ports. I am just having no luck. And it isn't the torrents or trackers I am pretty sure b/c I thought that at first. I went to several very popular anime torrents on other trackers just to be sure and i cannot connect to any of those either.

[cpugeniusmv]

All your inbound ports are closed, courtesy your university. Bittorrent won't work very well no matter what you do.

[arwell2]

Well in my attempt to continue torrent sharing I went and downloaded the ABC client. And now I am up and running again (at least as well as can be expected. My status is yellow, the speeds are variable, and the connection is very unstable.) So, my question is, what is wrong with Azureus? I still cannot connect to any peers (health red) I have tried a ton of different ports, uninstalled it, redownloaded and reinstalled the client and so on. I have the current version of java (though I am wondering if it may be part of the problem), and it was all working fine before. I only care b/c I liked the setup of Azureus. If anyone has any ideas let me know. Thanks

[cpugeniusmv]

There are so many factors involved in Bittorrent and your network situation, it's difficult to put the blame on any one item.

I use Azureus in a similar situation as yours, and it downloads eventually--but not nearly as well as it would if I had an open port.

[malty]

Any body else getting a warning when you start a download azureus did not close down properly is the message above the taskbar. When ive finished with the program and closed it its still runing using a lot of memory.I have to go into task manager and stop the prosess anybody got any ideas