Upgraded to 10.4.2 and torrents no longer work.

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KillerGreen

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Not sure what I had to start with. It was a new G5 I got in Dec. I ran the auto software updater today under my apple icon, and now my torrents (Bittorrent/tomato torrent) no longer find any peers or seeds. They just sit. This is for freeware files BTW, which I collect.

Can anyone help me out. I am an old PC guy that finally made the switch to MAC, but I am still a bit out of my element here. Help! What can I do to get my DLs working again?
 
If you ran the Software Updater today then you should have been prompted to upgrade to 10.4.6, not 10.4.2... are you sure it's 10.4.2?

How are you connected to the internet? Do you have a router? Dial-up? DSL? Cable? PPPoE? The most common cause of torrents not working is that you've forgotten to forward port 6881 TCP to your local machine on your router, if you are using a router. Do all other internet functions perform as expected (web browsing, email, etc.)?
 
ElDiabloConCaca said:
If you ran the Software Updater today then you should have been prompted to upgrade to 10.4.6, not 10.4.2... are you sure it's 10.4.2?

How are you connected to the internet? Do you have a router? Dial-up? DSL? Cable? PPPoE? The most common cause of torrents not working is that you've forgotten to forward port 6881 TCP to your local machine on your router, if you are using a router. Do all other internet functions perform as expected (web browsing, email, etc.)?
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Sorry, my bad. You are correct. It is 10.4.6. I have a Netgear router and am using DSL. I do not have any port forwarding set. I have never needed that before, and do enough transferring. Also, the MAC OS I had before was a 10.4. something I am pretty sure, so it shouldn't have been any major upgrade. Just got the machine new from the Mac store in Dec.

Thanks for the help.
 
I am messing with Port forwarding now, but don't even know what to put. I have a selector for the service type (AIM/FTP/HTTP etc etc). It also asks me the server address? Is that my MAC IP address? I am on DHCP, so what happens if I reboot?
 
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