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Originally Posted by painkiller

yep ..firewalled is a pain in the ass. I had a shitload of issues myself a while back and managed to fix it despite not being of the younger generation lol.
If you cant access the settings on norton i`m guessing you will need to... to allow utorrent or whatever client you use to access the internet without restriction.
More than likely though the problem will be with your router and the firewall settings within that. I found finding the settings within the router and this worked. I know theres millions of brands of routers , but you would find a post on google that would help for sure.

yeah, I searched on Google, but even the MS "patches" (software updates) for such things work on EVERYthing but Vista (at least in the 2 hours I spent).

at least the ratio is going up a bit...hopping on hot torrents early, videos over audio, and of course uploading (once I figure out how, need to get/figure out a tracking program) would probably help as well, though if I'm firewalled, I assume that may somewhat impede my uploading stuff....feck.

one good note: the cpu shut down for being too hot, and when I rebooted, the MS Firewall screen popped up when I opened uTorrent, and asked if I should "approve" (wrong verbiage, I know) letting uTorrent thru, which I said "yes". so maybe I was able to somewhat fix it, and that's why over a GB was u/l'd last night (a lot more than any other period). the laptop is almost always on, so I have no issues there.