Jenesis Posted July 21, 2007 Report Share Posted July 21, 2007 Some of my torrents have infinite ETAs and seems to be stuck at 0%. I know it's not a firewall issue as some of my torrents do download properly.The weird thing is, the torrents that don't download all have many seeds and leechers (I'm fairly new to this so I don't know all the terminology). The numbers say "2 (120)" under Seeds and "0 (1426)" under Peers, for this particular torrent which has infinity as the ETA, is stuck at 0% and has a down speed of 0 kb/s.A torrent I am downloading which does work says "2 (2)" and "0 (536)", respectively, has an ETA of 16h 5m and a down speed of 7 kb/s ish. What's going on? If this is a popular torrent (as would seem to indicate by the number of Peers) why won't it download? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted July 21, 2007 Report Share Posted July 21, 2007 Do OpenOffice torrents exhibit the same behavior? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenesis Posted July 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2007 Yes, they exhibit the same behaviour (infinite ETA even though peers are online). My one working torrent carries on downloading quite happily, if slowly. Help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted July 21, 2007 Report Share Posted July 21, 2007 Sounds like either your ISP, your settings or something on your system is blocking normal operation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted July 22, 2007 Report Share Posted July 22, 2007 Would your ISP happen to be British Telecom (BT for short) by any chance?If so, do a search of these forums for this: "British Telecom" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenesis Posted July 22, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2007 It is indeed BT, but this has only been happening for the past few days. Have BT suddenly changed their policies or something?EDIT: Aha, I seem to have got somewhere! After reading on the forum about BT throttling BitTorrent traffic (bastards, it's our right to download what we want, but I digress) I changed my settings to this:- Global Maximum Number of Connections = 40- Max. No. of connected peers per torrent = 20- No. upload slots per torrent = 4And I also disabled all the DHT stuff (unchecked all the boxes) and enabled the scheduler to cut back on torrents between 6pm and midnight.Seems to be working alright so far...EDIT 2: I have come to the conclusion that one of the torrents (the main culprit for infinite ETAs) is just rubbish. I tried the OpenOffice torrent again and it's working fine, just this one torrent that isn't working. Which is a shame as it's the one I really want. Oh well... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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