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Why do I have to Force Start my torrents?


HenryCan

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The behaviour of my  uTorrent client changed a few days ago and I'm not sure why. I'd like to get it behaving the way it did before, if possible.

 

I've been using uTorrent for a few years now. It's always worked well. A few days ago, it stopped automatically started to download torrents when I'd added them. Now, it has a brief "connect to peer" phase and then enqueues itself. The torrent itself also appears grey rather than black in the GUI. The only way I can see to start it actually downloading is to do a Force Start.  Even then, it can take several minutes before it even starts.

 

I can see from the preferences that the box which says "Don't start the download automatically" is *not* checked. I did not consciously change any settings or preferences. However, there is a remote chance that my cat, who likes to walk across the keyboard, may have stepped on some keys and unintentionally changed a setting.

 

Can anyone suggest what I need to do to get uTorrent to resume starting downloads immediately upon adding a torrent?

 

I'm running Build 41202 on a Windows 8.1 laptop. 

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The problem went away on its own after a few days. I have no idea what happened or why it fixed itself.

 

What would an ISP be able to do to stop a download that doesn't also affect the rest of my internet?

 

I wasn't paying attention to the status bar but didn't see any obvious error messages anywhere. (I assume the status bar is the one along the bottom with the "DHT" (whatever that is) and upload/download speeds.) 

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The problem went away on its own after a few days. I have no idea what happened or why it fixed itself.

 

What would an ISP be able to do to stop a download that doesn't also affect the rest of my internet?

 

I wasn't paying attention to the status bar but didn't see any obvious error messages anywhere. (I assume the status bar is the one along the bottom with the "DHT" (whatever that is) and upload/download speeds.) 

Maybe there wasn't enough seeders or the seeder was offline so no one could download the files. There are two sides to downloads not just your side.

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