felipe1982 Posted October 15, 2006 Report Posted October 15, 2006 Brand new to bittorrent in general, and brand new to uTorrent. I come from the emule background...I'm downloading Mandriva Linux on my uTorrent, but I am getting Wasted: 41.7MB (107 hashfails). What does this mean? Is it bad? How can I fix it? Other info: My download is unlimited, and my upload is set at Max 30kBps (i share my internet connection and I don't want to slow down e.body else) I have two 4.3GB files downloading (Mandriva and openSUSE). Mandriva is 73% done, it has 16 seeds and 51 peers.*winxp pro*2.2 Ghz CPU*512 MB ram
DreadWingKnight Posted October 15, 2006 Report Posted October 15, 2006 There's not much you can do to fix the issue unless you have a dlink router with its dmz mode active (even if it's not pointing at your computer).Downloads like those should not be getting ANY hashfails, let alone 107.
felipe1982 Posted October 16, 2006 Author Report Posted October 16, 2006 Funny. I do have a dlink router. Don't all routers have DMZ capabilities? At least all the major consumer brands...The UPnP on the router and utorrent work fine. I have done numerous port scans and they *all* passed. Why should DMZ be different? I'd prefer to manually forward the ports, can I do that instead of DMZ?I told myself the same thing -- downloads like these should not be getting any hashfails. I'm totally new to bittorrent, so I'm still figuring this stuff out (mostly the jargon). I wish they could distribute the Linux isos in ed2k format a program I am very familiar and comfortable with./edit: what exactly is a 'hashfail'?
Ultima Posted October 16, 2006 Report Posted October 16, 2006 It's not DMZ mode itself that's bad, it's D-Link's implementation that sucks big time. If you can forward manually, then yes, I don't see why you would opt to use DMZ instead. It's so much more insecure.Hashfail is when a piece does not match the hash described in the .torrent file, whereby µTorrent must assume the piece is corrupt. It tosses hashfailed pieces and redownloads them.
DreadWingKnight Posted October 16, 2006 Report Posted October 16, 2006 I wish they could distribute the Linux isos in ed2k format tongue a program I am very familiar and comfortable with.Because of the broken DMZ code in your DLink router, this wouldn't help you.
felipe1982 Posted October 17, 2006 Author Report Posted October 17, 2006 I'm not using DMZ. I have the UPNP turned on and functioning. I've finished mandriva and SuSE and installed them, but now have no internet connection .woe is me
Ultima Posted October 17, 2006 Report Posted October 17, 2006 D-Link's UPnP implementation sucks. But anyway... what's having no internet connection have to do with the hash fails and/or µTorrent?
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