In the list of seeders and leechers on the torrent details page, some peers show their port number in red. What does that mean?
It means that they aren’t accepting incoming connections. Usually the reason is that their firewall is configured incorrectly. Sometimes it’s that their computer or their link to the Internet is too overloaded to respond. For some users, their connection provider blocks the ports and there’s nothing they can do. If your client tries to open a BitTorrent connection to theirs, their end won’t answer. If two peers are both like that, they’ll never manage to share with each other. You and they will be able to share data only if they open a connection to you (there’s a good chance that they eventually will, unless you’re also firewalled). If your listening port is blocked, reconfigure your firewall to accept BitTorrent connections if you can. If your system is overloaded, close some programs or some other torrents. When you don’t receive incoming connections, that slows the torrent down for everybody, especially for you.
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