Krotz in China Posted October 14, 2016 Report Posted October 14, 2016 I posted a similar note a few weeks ago, which got no responses, but I am still having the issue, and hope someone can help me .... I have used uTorrent together with Astrill VPN for several years with no problem. In the last four weeks, however, everything has stopped working. I spent a lot of time looking at the forum to see if others have the same problem, and investigated the ports, VPN, router, ISP, etc., and have come to the conclusion that the issue is the trackers are not working properly. In a nutshell, I am downloading files that have a lot of trackers and are very popular (recent TV shows), so I know there should be lots of seeds and peers. I tried using different torrent sites, as well as a different torrent downloader, and have the same problem no matter what. I am using a MacBook Pro, uTorrent 1.8.7, Astrill VPN, and am in China using the standard internet service from China Unicom. When I load a torrent, roughly eight trackers appear "updating", and then I get a "Connection Timed Out" error in the status column and a message that they will update in some period of time (usually 20+ minutes). Manually updating the tracker does not help. Turning off the VPN does not help, nor does connecting direct to the internet (around the router). I have also tried the many troubleshooting suggestions (erase settings files in APP Support; Re-install uTorrent; Stop-Start-Stop-Start-Stop-Start; etc), but without luck. One final note, just to make it complicated: four days ago, it worked. I was able to download files without problem, for about 6 hours. Then it stopped again. I did nothing different before this (that I remember), and tried all the trouble shooting steps again, to no avail. Please let me know if other information is needed. I appreciate any help or advice offered.
Krotz in China Posted October 15, 2016 Author Report Posted October 15, 2016 I downloaded Transmission, and now use that for my bit torrent client. I prefer uTorrent, but can just not make it work. I am sorry no one was able to help.
mike20021969 Posted October 16, 2016 Report Posted October 16, 2016 "DHT waiting for announce..." could be the problem.
Krotz in China Posted October 16, 2016 Author Report Posted October 16, 2016 3 hours ago, mike20021969 said: "DHT waiting for announce..." could be the problem. What then should I look at / do?
mike20021969 Posted October 16, 2016 Report Posted October 16, 2016 1 hour ago, Krotz in China said: What then should I look at / do? https://depthstrike.com/2007/11/24/utorrent-dht-troubleshooting/
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