dydust Posted September 18, 2006 Report Share Posted September 18, 2006 Similar to many of the other people's problems, my utorrent was working pretty fine a month ago. Suddenly, for this whole week, even though my torrents have 1k seeds and 900 peers, both dl and ul speed is always zero. I dont believe that my internet has any problems. Im using a laptop so i dont believe its a port problem / router problem. Other than increasing the number of maximum connections, the default settings were used. I can't seem to find the problem! Can anyone please help me / share ur insights as to the possible cause of this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted September 18, 2006 Report Share Posted September 18, 2006 Does this occur with EVERY torrent?Or just with the fake/poisoned ones you're trying to download? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dydust Posted September 19, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2006 what do you mean by poisoned torrents? Yes, all the current torrents have 0 kb/s both upload and download. I am using utorrent v1.6. Even though the arrow to the left of the torrent is blue (not red) i am not getting any dl or ul speeds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted September 19, 2006 Report Share Posted September 19, 2006 Poisoned torrents are otherwise working torrents that have LOTS of intenally-bad sources and peers on them. Pretty much done by media corps to prevent people from downloading them.To rule that out, try the OpenOffice torrent as a test. If it gets slow or no speeds as well, your problem may not be just which trackers you connect to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dydust Posted September 19, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2006 Where can i find the openoffice torrent? can u post the site here so i can try it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dydust Posted September 19, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2006 I have tried already and it works fine. Thanks! I just want to ask how to detect poisoned torrents... I personally select those with a high seed to peer ratio as suggested by the many forums on how to speed up downloads but i havent read on how to determine poisoned / fake torrents from real ones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted September 19, 2006 Report Share Posted September 19, 2006 If there were any precise criteria, BitTorrent programs themselves could determine it for you. Basically, if the availability is always exactly the percent you have plus however many seeders there are is the best one I can think of.So if there's 100 "seeds", 1000 peers/leeches, and you have 91% of the torrent, then the availability is 100.91 -- because no other peers/leeches have anything you don't already have. That is a clear sign that the torrent is a fake and/or all the real seeds have left.If you think a torrent is fake/poisoned, but not sure, change its specific settings... reduce upload speed to only 1 KB/sec and upload slots to 1. This way, it won't cripple your download+upload rate on good torrents. Once you're SURE it's fake/poisoned, just stop that torrent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dydust Posted September 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 20, 2006 By the way, i just noticed that there is a red exclamation point at the bottom which says 'not connectable, a firewall/router is limiting your network traffic, you need to open up a port so others can connect to you'. The windows firewall is turned off but the norton 2006 internet worm protection firewall is on, though the utorrent program is under the 'permit all' which means it isnt being blocked. Why do i have this condition? Isn't a router used when a group of computers share an internet connection? If so, my laptop is the only one connected to the isp so i don't think im using a router... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted September 20, 2006 Report Share Posted September 20, 2006 µTorrent can probably connect outwards just fine due to Norton's settings.However Norton is blocking incoming connections, which means others cannot connect inwards to you!...you have to "call" them first, they cannot "call" you.Some modems have mini-routers and firewalls built into them as well that can cause µTorrent to be firewalled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dydust Posted September 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2006 Switeck, are you familiar with Norton's firewall? How can i allow others to 'call' me? Also, how can i check whether my internal modem has mini-routers and firewalls? Do you have an SOP for checking these and for that matter changing the red (dot with an exclamation point at the bottom) to green? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted September 21, 2006 Report Share Posted September 21, 2006 I don't know much about it...I don't use a software firewall except for Win XP's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dydust Posted May 2, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 2, 2007 Well, I've switched to a desktop now, yet the red sign is still there... How do you check if you are using a router? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted May 2, 2007 Report Share Posted May 2, 2007 Look up information about your modem on Google...to see if the modem has a mini-router built into it that needs to be configured.You also might want to look up what a router does so you can understand why you have to configure it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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