Removing yourself from being in a firewalled state does not mean you have to get rid of your firewall entirely. Essentially, peers who are not in a firewalled state have the potential to connect to many more sources of data. Additionally, because they cannot accept incoming connections, other peers do not connect to them, so they lose even more attention. Because there are less people available for firewalled users to connect to, they are open to less sources for data. Being in a firewalled state not only cuts into the potential speed you could be attaining when not firewalled, but also means you are of very limited use to other peers in the swarm. 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.
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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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