not getting green smilies anymore :(

[jedifunk]

anyone else having problems?  i would check to see if i'm somehow behind a firewall, but etree's site hasnt fixed that yet.

for the last couple of days, i've only been getting yellow faces.

anyone know of any mac apps that you can get firewall status from?

[jedifunk]

come on, anyone?  jephrey, you got any suggestions?  its really starting to bother me!  help!

[jephrey]

I don't know if I mentioned that I have gone back to Azureus after trying BoW for a while.  I have not had the yellow smiles lately myself, but when you get the description of a yellow smile it says you may have a NAT problem...  I had this for a while through my ISP and they went in and turned off NAT.  later on, I experienced NAT problems in FTP apps and they informed me that it had been turned back on...  Whenever it got turned back on, I didn't notice because Azureus was still giving me the green.  So basically, cycling NAT helped me out.  A quick search turned up this

http://azureus.aelitis.com/wiki/index.php/PortForwarding

-Jephrey

[jedifunk]

not that anyone cares, but i solved my firewall issues.

i wont get into details but i'm back to 500K downloads!

woohoo!