radium Posted September 20, 2006 Report Share Posted September 20, 2006 Prior to upgrading to µTorrent 1.6, the tracker statuses of downloads were almost always blue and the statuses of seeding were almost always green. This was true when I used µTorrent 1.5. Now, without making any changes to my PC's hardware or software configuration except upgrading to µTorrent 1.6, and making no changes to µTorrent's preferences, the statuses of all torrents when downloading or seeding begins change to red in a few seconds and stay red. The Tracker Status under the General tab always indicates "offline (timed out)".I've tested this issue with approximately 20 different trackers, some of which I was able to verify with their admins that they were online. With every tracker I checked, µTorrent 1.6, showed the tracker status as offline.My setup is:Operating System: Windows XP SP2 HomeDSL Modem/Router: Actiontec 701DSL Provider: QwestFirewall: Router NAT and Windows firewall. Note - I tested with the Windows firewall both enabled and disabled. The result was the same. When enabled, µTorrent 1.6 and Remote Assistance are checked as exceptions; File and Printer Sharing, Remote Desktop, and UPnP Framework are unchecked.Port Forwarding: a fixed port is specified in the µTorrent preferences and the port is TCP and UDP forwarded in the router. Port forwarding was verified by the Speed Guide test. Note - I tested other ports with the same result.Connection Speed: measured at BroadbandReports.com to be approximately 560kbits up, 3Mbits down.Connection Settings: xx/384k defaultstcpip.sys Patch: applied, max half-open connection set to 100DHT nodes: typically 270-280Under this situation, some torrents still download and seed successfully, generally if the torrent has a large number of seeds and peers to begin with. Sometimes the total download rate approaches 3Mbits/sec. However, and this is the main issue for me, torrents that have a small number of seeds and peers, as measured by multiple torrent web sites multiple times over the course of a few weeks, never start and never identify any peers or seeds. My thought is this may be related to the tracker status. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted September 20, 2006 Report Share Posted September 20, 2006 Remove the rules for uTorrent in your software firewall and re-add them (as upgrades cause oddities).http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/index.html has test torrents that could work fr you as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radium Posted September 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2006 DreadWingKnight,Thank you for your response. As far as I know, the Windows XP built-in firewall doesn't allow "rules" like thoughs of other software firewalls, only whether or not a specific application or service is an exception or not. Most application exceptions are created by the application during install or are specified as an option, like in µTorrent. When I first installed µTorrent 1.6, I made sure that it installed an exception for itself. During testing for this issue, I deleted the µTorrent exception, rebooted, had µTorrent 1.6 re-create the exception, rebooted, and tested again, all to no effect. It's doubtful that the Windows firewall can detect different versions of the same executable anyway. In any event, as stated in my orginal message, I tested with the Windows firewall enable and disabled, with the same results. At this point, I just don't have any evidence that the Windows firewall is the problem.I tested trackers that were commercial grade, general high volume that featured legal downloads, such as those on the Revision3, bittorrent.com, etc. Just now, I tested a torrent from the site you suggested: same result ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ticoloco Posted September 30, 2006 Report Share Posted September 30, 2006 Radium,I had a similar problem. Was easily resolved by changing the tcpip.sys settings. Downloaded a nifty application to do that here: http://rapidshare.de/files/27059169/BetterSP2.zip.htmlGood luck,ticoloco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted October 1, 2006 Report Share Posted October 1, 2006 He already said he patched TCPIP.sys in his first post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted October 1, 2006 Report Share Posted October 1, 2006 ticoloco, that link is not what I'd consider "trustworthy".radium, having DHT enabled may be causing your hardware trouble after going on for many hours. Try disabling it and even unforwarding UDP in your router. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munshi Posted October 1, 2006 Report Share Posted October 1, 2006 well i have the exact same problem with utorrent 1.6 i just posted yesterday about this issue along with another one and did the patch and still the tracker status are offline,now i even tried disabling DHT(which was already disabled in the private torrents).i have a USB DSL modem so i dont even have an option of forwarding and unforwarding of ports in the router,utorrent test shows that both ports are forwarded well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted October 1, 2006 Report Share Posted October 1, 2006 Did you restart after patching? What firewall are you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted October 2, 2006 Report Share Posted October 2, 2006 USB DSL modems are for whatever reason less able to handle lots of connections at once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munshi Posted October 2, 2006 Report Share Posted October 2, 2006 well i tried connecting each torrent alone and waiting for a minute to start another and it worked,the trackers are now ok,but i was wondering why this happened with 1.6 only?maybe it can be fixed back to normal in later versions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted October 2, 2006 Report Share Posted October 2, 2006 µTorrent's reportedly become more aggressive in terms of connections and whatnot with v1.6, though I don't know the exact reason why. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted October 2, 2006 Report Share Posted October 2, 2006 µTorrent v1.6 actually tries to sustain its half-open connection rate max -- v1.5 would only very rarely peak at its set value. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munshi Posted October 3, 2006 Report Share Posted October 3, 2006 is there a way to get the net half open connections to be low and never sustain a peak value Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted October 3, 2006 Report Share Posted October 3, 2006 Er... lower net.max_halfopen then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munshi Posted October 3, 2006 Report Share Posted October 3, 2006 i did try that my system half open is 100 and utorrent is set to 30,and i still need to wait for that minute to get each of them running on tracker and if the swarm is big,then i have to wait for about 30 min or so... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted October 4, 2006 Report Share Posted October 4, 2006 If you haven't, enable Peer Exchange...that should speed up the rate at which it aquires peers+seeds slightly by finding peers+seeds not connected directly to the tracker. (...although this won't help on private torrents obviously.)You may just have too high a half-open connection max for your USB modem. That's my current "best guess" for what's causing your "offline (timed out)" Tracker Status. Reset µTorrent's half open max to 8, but leave Win XP SP2 patched to 100 max half-open. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanjamesstewart Posted October 5, 2006 Report Share Posted October 5, 2006 Ok, I have the same problem here, with my downloads sayiong the tracker is offline. I have just started using Utorrent, and have to admit I am not the most knowledgable when it comes to computers and how to fix them, could anyone please explain what I should do in Lehman's terms? Would be much appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted October 5, 2006 Report Share Posted October 5, 2006 Try torrents from other trackers to see if it's just the 1 tracker that has problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munshi Posted October 5, 2006 Report Share Posted October 5, 2006 tried setting it back to 8 and the problem became worse,going back to 30 half with a minute period of waiting between running each torrent, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munshi Posted October 7, 2006 Report Share Posted October 7, 2006 now it saeems the problem has manifested itself in another way,the trackers connect fine at the begining of the session and then all trackers go offline when updating,and i cant manually connect to trackers when they are offline and i have to close utorrent and restart it to be able to connect to the trakcer again.is there any real solution for this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted October 7, 2006 Report Share Posted October 7, 2006 Since you've exhausted most of our ideas (check the first link in my signature for anything we might've neglected to ask you to try), I'm not sure what else to say =T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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