Skimeister Posted August 10, 2006 Report Share Posted August 10, 2006 Hello everyone and thank you for your time and advise.I use Utorrent 1.6 and recently installed Zone Alarm Pro.I have configured my Zone Alarm Pro to allow connections to a port used by Utorrent.Everything was working perfectly and I was getting gread download speeds. After some time of downloading a torrent, ZoneAlarm popped up "SuspiciosActivity Alert"....the first time this alert came up I just clicked "OK" and my download resumed without problems. After some time "Suspicius Activity Alert" popped up again, but this time istead of clicking "OK" I ticked "Allow Automatic..something". Now my download speeds dropped to zero. The same torrent that was downloading fine before now cannot connect to a single seeder out of 760 available. I am connected to some peers. It is still uploading but at very slow speeds.I tried different torrents and my download speeds are horrible 1-6 kb/sTo complicate things all this happened just as windows XP was installung automatic security updates. Could some Microsoft securty update have done something to my settings?I cant remember for the life of me what was that "suspicious Activity alert" pertaining to. I checked program permissions in ZA and Utorrent still has full permissions.I tried shuttind down ZoneAlarm but it does not solve the problem. I suspect that ZoneAlarm is responsible for this, but maybe it was just a coincidense and something else happened? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted August 11, 2006 Report Share Posted August 11, 2006 I tried shuttind down ZoneAlarm but it does not solve the problem.Because just shutting down ZA doesn't remove its interference in the network stack.I'd uninstall ZA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted August 11, 2006 Report Share Posted August 11, 2006 Uninstall ZoneAlarm?Edit: Meh DWK got it first =T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skimeister Posted August 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2006 Thanks for your help,Does not look like its ZoneAlarms fault afterall, I just did a complete uninstall of Zone Alarm. And the problem is still there. My download speeds are hovering between 0 and 0.2 but most of the time its at 0.0. I was wrong in my original post regarding seeds, I can actually connect to some.I have not touched any settings in Utorrent, so what would cause my download speed to just plummet to zero all of a sudden? As I mentioned I did run a windows update recently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted August 11, 2006 Report Share Posted August 11, 2006 What color is the light in the status bar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skimeister Posted August 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2006 that light with an arrow is Blue. I tried resetting the router and a modem....still no result. I tried different torrents with 1000+ seeds and no leechers..still nothing..the best download speed I got was a 4.0 that lasted for 30 seconds and dropped back to 0.0.I just tried another torrent and that one gives me a RED light but the first one is still BLUE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted August 11, 2006 Report Share Posted August 11, 2006 Status bar. Not torrent status icon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skimeister Posted August 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2006 oh sorry, Green.I'm beggining to suspect that it could be a problem with tracker or something.The torrent Ive been trying for last little while has 767 seeds and 261 peers and I'm connected to 14 peers. My dowload is 0.0. Is there a foul-proof torrent I can get which SHOULD download OK if everything is allright on my system? Thank you so much for all your help.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted August 11, 2006 Report Share Posted August 11, 2006 http://www.slackware.com/torrents/slackware-10.2-install-d1.torrentRepatch TCPIP.SYS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted August 11, 2006 Report Share Posted August 11, 2006 http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skimeister Posted August 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2006 Ultima> I have repatched my TCPIP.SYS a while back, as I mentioned I USED to get great download speeds. And I havent changed any settings since. The only thing that happened is WinXP updated itself and ZoneAlarm which was uninstalledI have just tried both of the torrents listed above and I can't get more than 4 kb/s. This is just so weired this morning I was downloading at 85 kb/s no problem and now this... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted August 11, 2006 Report Share Posted August 11, 2006 "a while back"That's why I said to repatch... -.- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skimeister Posted August 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2006 Ultima, Thanks for your responces and help. I'm a bit of a noob at this. But I did re-patch, it was one of the first things I did when I started having problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted August 11, 2006 Report Share Posted August 11, 2006 After the Windows update, right? What is your net.max_halfopen set to, and what is your TCPIP.sys limit patched to? What exactly are the tracker status messages, and have you tried torrents from different trackers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skimeister Posted August 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2006 My Current TCPIP is set to 80.Max_halfopen is 25.Tracker Status: Working. I've tried torrents from the usual suspects: IsoHunt, TorrentBox, TorrentSpy, MiniNova... My average down speed is 2.0 Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted August 12, 2006 Report Share Posted August 12, 2006 Is Protocol Encryption enabled? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skimeister Posted August 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2006 Protocol Encryption - Outgoing: ENABLED. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted August 12, 2006 Report Share Posted August 12, 2006 Can you connect the computer directly to the modem (bypass the router)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skimeister Posted August 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 13, 2006 Ultima,Currently I cant connect directly to the modem as it is on a different floor. But the oddest thing, is that this slackware torrent is downloading at a great speed of 65 kb/shttp://www.slackware.com/torrents/slackware-10.2-install-d1.torrentBut every other torrent I've tried is not going faster than 4 kb/s. I've tried different torrents all day yesterday from different trackers and they are all impossibly slow. Yet every time I start this "slackware" it jumps to 60kbs right away.So would that mean that everything is fine on my end? But then why am I having such trouble connecting to any other trackers?Thank you for all your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted August 13, 2006 Report Share Posted August 13, 2006 What about the torrents Firon linked to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cpaul Posted August 16, 2006 Report Share Posted August 16, 2006 Don't hijack threads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted August 16, 2006 Report Share Posted August 16, 2006 ROFL for a second there I was confused as to why cpaul was telling me not to hijack threads xD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheezy Posted August 23, 2006 Report Share Posted August 23, 2006 I'm having a similar problem, and I believe it does have something to do with a Windows Update that came on about 8/11, because my TCPIP reverted back to the default of 10.However, when I try to repatch it, I am gettting an error message about not being able to rename the file TCPIP and the automatic patcher program has to be aborted.Has anyone else that has tried to patch TCPIP had a similar problem, and does anyone know of a solution? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted August 23, 2006 Report Share Posted August 23, 2006 darkangel was having the same problem, I'm not sure if he ever resolved it, but someone else recommended he try xp-AntiSpy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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