bobthemole Posted October 4, 2006 Report Share Posted October 4, 2006 I installed utorrent on sunday. Speed was very variable. Anything from 5 kb/s download to 50. Then this morning all 5 of my torrents have stopped.The error is: "The semaphore timeout period has expired."I've googled around a lot and it looks like this can be caused by a variety of different things. I doubled checked my settings in the utorrent preferences. According to this guide: http://www.utorrent.com/setup_guide.php everything should be configured correctly. I have excluded the possibility that the torrents are bad by testing the slackware download which also leads to the same error.I then came across the utorrent FAQ, and on reading the "Special note for users with Linksys WRT54G/GL/GS routers, there are severe problems with them when running any P2P app (read for fix)" and I have a Linksys WRT54G v3.1 router so I proceeded to upgrade my firmware to HyperWRT G Thibor15c.The upgrade went smoothly. As I have the latest version of Thibor it would seem that any drop in performance caused by the router should now no longer be experienced (i.e. the extra startup script code isn't necessary). Yet my torrents won't resume downloading and I'm still presented with the semaphore error after restarting utorrent.What am I missing?Alechiko Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted October 4, 2006 Report Share Posted October 4, 2006 That error is a hard drive error, not a router error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobthemole Posted October 4, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 4, 2006 Dreadwingknight: Can you be more specific? The drive is a network attached storage device. It has plenty of available space left and I recently ran a scandisc of the drive which didn't pull up any errors. I'm not sure what to make of what you've said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted October 4, 2006 Report Share Posted October 4, 2006 Semaphore timeouts have to do with hard drive controllers not communicating properly with the hard drive. Usually caused by hard drive cables that are too long.We don't recommend saving to a network drive due to the issues generated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobthemole Posted October 4, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 4, 2006 DWK thanks, that makes more sense. Ok, so say i clear up some space on my local disc. How would I go about transferring the torrents (and what has been downloaded so far) to my local disc, and then how would I tell utorrent that this was the new location and that it should pick up from where it left off? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted October 5, 2006 Report Share Posted October 5, 2006 Stop the torrentsMove the filesChange the download locations in uT (right-click -> Advanced)Force re-checkResume Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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