uTorrent + PeerGuardian, strange seeds/peers question.

[Imperdimper]

I'm downloading this torrent, it's around 1.5GB, percent currently stuck at around the mid 90's. The first part of the torrent downloaded (and works) fine, I had put these files as 'High' priority, put the rest as 'Normal'. It took around four hours to get to the mid 90's, then dropped to zero up/down. No seeders, peers around 30-50, depending on the time. "Avail." matches the total downloaded. So I can tell that there is not currently enough seeders to finish off the torrent.

Deciding that PeerGuardian could be eating away at some of my seeders, I disabled it. Refreshed the tracker, and to my amazement the Seeders/Peers shown in the ('s and )'s displayed a number in the nine thousands, but still no new seeds to help finish the torrent.

My question is, why when I disabled PeerGuardian did that number jump up in the thousands when I know for sure that the tracker doesn't have that many people seeding/leeching? And is there any advice anyone could give me on finishing this torrent that really doesn't want to finish?

Imper

PS: Oh, and one more question, when downloading the .torrent from the website, it stated that there was around 150 seeders, good health. What happened to those seeders?

[hermanm]

You stopped blocking IPs so you could see more peers. There may have only been one seeder MIA. PG may be blocking EDU which would have many peers. Don't trust web site stats. Even client data can be wrong since you have ill-behaved clients in the swarm.

[µtorrent-Guest]

sounds like a fake torrent released by antip2p companies.

you verylikely will never be able to finish that one since there will be no 100% of the genuine content available.