nicoalbb Posted September 16, 2006 Report Share Posted September 16, 2006 ok, as i said on the title i have the incredible amount of 3.45GB wasted in 1766 Hashfails of a 2.85GB file. I've been reading a lot but seems that nothing explains what's going on, i've cheked the ratio, i've cheked the Seeds & Peers, i've cheked my hardware & software configuration, i think i haven't miss anything.I don't want to disturb anyone but if someone will be nice enought to help me i'll thank him/her a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted September 16, 2006 Report Share Posted September 16, 2006 If it's not the "DLink DMZ Download Destroyer" (which is a dlink router with DMZ on causing corruption, even if another computer is in the DMZ), it's a poisoned torrent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted September 16, 2006 Report Share Posted September 16, 2006 Are you getting the green light at the bottom of µTorrent...meaning you're not firewalled and can accept incoming connections?Is your upload speed reached and sustained according to the graph?What is the settings you're using, as reported by Speed Guide (CTRL+G)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicoalbb Posted September 18, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 18, 2006 Sorry for the delay on the message, but the utorrent increased its speed for a couple days, i don't know what's going on but the stats at this moment are: 2.84GB wasted in 5528 Hashfails of the same file. The only thing i did was restarting the torrent and now it's downloading at a rate of 50-60 KB/s, still it doesn't seem to download anything usefull.Thanks for the advises but i've already done that. What else could it be?(Edited it for the BYTES - bits mistakes that SWITECK mentioned) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted September 18, 2006 Report Share Posted September 18, 2006 What about DWK's post? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted September 18, 2006 Report Share Posted September 18, 2006 Are you using a wireless connection -- either to your ISP, or even just a wireless LAN/router in your house? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicoalbb Posted September 19, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2006 SWITECK I have an exterior modem, but is not wireless, and is configurated to work with a direct IP.And no ULTIMA as i said before is not the DLink DMZ.Does distance affects the downloads? Because right now i'm in Colombia and the seeds are most in the UK, US & Canada.Thanks again for helping me. Specially you SWITECK for helping me twice.By the way, the stats are now:1.65GB wasted in 6962 Hashfails of the same file at the same speed.Is it normal that the wasted thing gets lower each time and the Hashfails get higer?(I have to edit this twice, first forgot the stats, and then i found a spelling mistake) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted September 19, 2006 Report Share Posted September 19, 2006 That many hashfails are a sign of a problem, but the problem could be something besides µTorrent!So to rule out µTorrent somewhat, are you sure you're using settings that will not ever overload your connection in any way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted September 19, 2006 Report Share Posted September 19, 2006 @nicoalbb: Actually, I don't see where you mentioned anything about D-Link DMZ. Anyhow, try another torrent, like Ubuntu. If you get little-to-no hashfails in that, then it's the torrent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicoalbb Posted September 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 20, 2006 ULTIMA sorry if you felt in anyway ofended, it was not my intention. What you mean with another torrent?, if it is another download to test the downloading, it's fine i've downloaded a lot of things wich i still seed because in a guide i (past of read)(i'm a spanish speaker so my english fails everyonce in awhile) about the ratio affecting download speeds, and if it is another client i dont think that anything can improve utorrent in efficacy and low processor using.SWITECK i've run the speed test and it showed me about 512KB/s, configure it as so in the utorrent, but now the download speed has decreased from 50-60KB/s to 0-5KB/s. Don't know if that is good or if it will decrease the hasfails also so i'll have to wait a couple days.Thanks to both of you for helping me in solving this hashfails problem.(Also edited for the BYTES - bits mistake SWITECK mentioned) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted September 20, 2006 Report Share Posted September 20, 2006 Don't confuse KiloBYTES/sec for kilobits/sec.Also don't confuse download speeds with what your basing your settings on in Speed Guide -- upload speed.If your line is rated for 512 KiloBYTES/sec, what's your upload speed capable of? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted September 20, 2006 Report Share Posted September 20, 2006 @nicoalbb: lol don't worry, I wasn't offended at all, I was just wondering where you mentioned DMZ It's a test torrent I linked to. If you're worried that downloading another test torrent might affect your ratio (and then supposedly affect your speed), don't worry about that, since no one can limit your speeds based on your global ratio, and other trackers don't see it either, so they can't ban you for it.The reason I want you to test is that it's always a possibility that the problem lies with that single torrent. You said you downloaded other files with no problem, right? My hunch still blames that torrent, and downloading this one extra torrent will *likely* be the final confirmation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radium Posted September 20, 2006 Report Share Posted September 20, 2006 Something similar happened to me a few months ago. I was downloading a torrent that had a fairly high number of Seeds and Peers, the Down speed was around 100kB/s, yet the Done percentage never seemed to improve. Checking the log, the cause was a huge number of hash fails. Then I noticed something else in the log, the IP addresses of the pieces failing the hash check were all similar, though they were varying in such a way as to minimize detection by a blacklisting algorithm such as the one found in µTorrent. In my case, µTorrent was blacklisting some of the IP addresses, but new similar ones were popping up faster than µTorrent could blacklist them.I traced all the "offending" IP addresses back to a single U.S. ISP. They were producing bad file pieces at such a high rate that it swamped all other "good" traffic for the torrent. I now believe that this was my first and only case of a torrent poisoning attack. I was able to download the torrent by creating an ipfilter.dat file which blocked all torrent traffic from the ISP.I don't know if this addresses your issue, but this is the only situation I've encountered that resembles what you describe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted September 21, 2006 Report Share Posted September 21, 2006 Yep that'd be poisoned as DWK mentioned. Freaking RIAA, MPAA, and their lackeys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicoalbb Posted September 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2006 Well to be honest i didn't knew what a poisoned Torrent was but what Radium says sounds very familiar with my case, the only problem is that i don't know how to do what he says it's the solution. Obviously i didn't try it before because i didn't knew how a poisoned torrent worked, so any help related with how to do that will be usefull, also if you can invest some time posting an explanation.Thanks again for all the time already invested in this matter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicoalbb Posted September 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2006 Forgot to ask if i can create an editable log in the top of the page so the other users can find a summary of solutions for this specific topic. So can i? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicoalbb Posted September 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2006 SWITEK the settings are:Connection Type:.............................................xx/512kUpload Limit:...............................................47KB/sConnections (per-torrent):...............................90Max active torrents:.........................................3Upload Slots:...................................................4Connections (global):.....................................250Max active downloads:.....................................2(Edited because i missed the g on settings) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted September 21, 2006 Report Share Posted September 21, 2006 Your settings look fine in that it wouldn't overload the connections... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radium Posted September 22, 2006 Report Share Posted September 22, 2006 Information on how to create a µTorrent ipfilter.dat can be found on the uTorrent FAQ web page: http://utorrent.com/faq.php. Just search the page for ipfilter.dat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
µtorrent-Guest Posted September 22, 2006 Report Share Posted September 22, 2006 bad boys looking like this!block this content mafia terrorists in a preemptive strike with 38.100.15.1 - 38.100.27.255 , 000 , p2p insurgents notify CIA to take action Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicoalbb Posted September 29, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 29, 2006 Hello, i'm back, sorry for the delay on the message but the utorrent finished 2 downloads in a day, it seems to work fine now, but i get the feeling that it won't be for long, thanks again for all the help, but i think the problem is in the distance, apparently there are about A LOT of conexions before the file gets to me and the information gets corrupted.This forum was really helpfull, hope it last a long time.Special thanks to:DreadWingKnight for being the first one who respond and for giving me a clue on what the problem might be.Switeck who took the time to read & respond me.Ultima that might be offended a bit.radium also for taking his time to respond.µtorrent-Guest MMMM....... How can they be a guest??? thanks to you too........ MMMM...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted September 29, 2006 Report Share Posted September 29, 2006 lol I told you I'm not offended at all... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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