ToyMachine Posted July 18, 2006 Report Share Posted July 18, 2006 Alright, I know this is probably just an overly-basic problem but I'm new to the world of torrents so here goes...So far in using uTorrent I've tried to get about 30-40 torrents off of 6 or 7 different sites. 2 of them have actually downloaded. The two that worked were the ones that had triple digit seeds...for instance I tried to download a file with 43 seeds and when it came up in uTorrent the status was "Downloading" but under the seeds column it said "0 (0)", so obviously the down speed was 0kb/s.What's going on? I hate to go back to LimeWire but it seems like there's a grand total of about 12 torrents that I can actually download so...--EDIT--I just found another one that would download... no problem with it but just thought that I would mention that while uTorrent seems to think there are 0 seeds it is downloading it at 235 kb/s...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted July 18, 2006 Report Share Posted July 18, 2006 Seeds don't mean everything. Either the index site you were looking at was wrong about the 43 seeds, or the tracker is down and you can't connect to any peers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted July 19, 2006 Report Share Posted July 19, 2006 Are you firewalled? If so, that explains why you can't get good speeds -- the seeds are likely firewalled too, and that means you cannot connect to them!...so if you are, unfirewall µTorrent and speeds should improve considerably. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToyMachine Posted July 19, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2006 Yeah, I am firewalled.Sorry to post about this, but I cannot for the life of me find what port I should open? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted July 19, 2006 Report Share Posted July 19, 2006 Pick a port above 10000, and not equal to 32459. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted July 19, 2006 Report Share Posted July 19, 2006 ...and no greater than 65535. You have to port-forward routers and some router/modem combos AND add firewall-allow rules to all software firewalls...or just remove the software firewalls completely using uninstall. (Most are junk that only give the illusion of protection.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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