no connection could be made because....

[hackerzlab]

I've been trying to connect to torrent for some time now ever since i moved on to this college. never been able to download anything from here. could someone please help me with this. i have the utorrent 1.7.5 and nothing's happening. here are my connections.

Done 0.0%; Status: downloading ; Seeds 0 (1089); Peers 0 (875)

Tracker URL: http://tracker. (keeps Changing)/announce

Tracker Status: no connection could be made because.../working (but keeps changing)

DHT Status: waiting for announce

please help me. nothing seems to be working

[ajones81]

It may well be that you're not allowed to use P2P programs in the college network? If so, I think you're probably out of luck, and also I'd recommend that you be careful in such an environment.

[hackerzlab]

oh well, i dont care! is there any possible way around here? thanx for any help.

[Ultima]

No. Go ask the network administrators in your college to allow it.

[hackerzlab]

after a lot of searching, i guess its possible only by with SSH. anyways thanx for the reply.

[BertXXL]

Hi,

I have the same problem like the original poster. But I only have this problem with one torrentfile. All the other torrents I'm dl'ing don't have this problem. My DHT Status says the following: announce in 14 minutes (got 2 peers). Any answers for this behaviour?

All the other behaviour is the same as the topic starter.

[DreadWingKnight]

But I only have this problem with one torrentfile.

Then the problem is with the tracker for that torrent. Nothing else.

[BertXXL]

Yes .. that sounds plausible .. but it looks like the torrent is looking for other trackers... it's finding other trackers with the status: Working. But every second it displays another tracker URL with a different tracker status.

It is not really bothering me, since the torrent is stil dl'ing but I'm just curious.

[jewelisheaven]

The tracker status is there for a reason. To let you know when there's a "invalid hostname" "tracker timeout (offline)" "working", etc.

If you don't want multiple trackers there, go to properties and remove them.

[BertXXL]

Indeed.. did some additional reading and found out about the multiple trackers and where you can edit the list (in properties). I removed the trackers that didn't have the status 'Working'.

Thanks for your answer(s).

Additional question .. is there any use for multiple trackers when you have one or two trackers that function properly?

[jewelisheaven]

Cross-swarm linking... which is generally not recommended for trackers which require you to keep a good ratio, as you will be who all of the outside peers go to (from the other tracker) for bandwidth and they will not see anyone else on the private swarm.

But no, with a functioning tracker, 1 is enough for tracking a swarm.