Is it working?

[Bill T]

I am v. new to uTorrent & the whole downloading culture.

I am trying to download a TV program now - although on the bottom of my screen it shows a download time & T: 13.2MB, in the "General" screen there is no evidence of anything happening.

Plus under "Tracker" I get a "Failure: Invalid passkey" message.

Also it is very slow - left it on overnight and only got 13.2MB of 350MB.

Could someone please advise?

[jewelisheaven]

OK, first to answer your questions:

In the torrent pane, it shows ETA based upon the sliding window of how much you have downloaded, how fast you are downloading, and how much more you have to download.

The General tab shows much vital statistics about the swarm including as you see "tracker status" Unfortunately this status means it was a "leaked" torrent with an individual's private tracker passkey embedded in the announce. If you think you will find a swarm for it elsewhere you are free to right click on the torrent in the torrent pane, go to properties, and edit the trackers including any of the many public trackers around. Otherwise, you are stuck with the current peers/availability. Glossary as well as Ultima's µManual (found below) give you more information about uTorrent specifically and some about the bittorrent protocol which it uses.

[Ultima]

Invalid passkey is a tracker problem. If you're a member of the tracker, download the .torrent file from the tracker again. Otherwise, you're going to have to find another source for whatever you're trying to download.

[Bill T]

Well...I guess that means that my first attempt has not been very succesful.

Q: What is a "swarm" and what is a tracker anyway, and how do I become a "member"?

[Ultima]

Definitions can be found in the glossary in the user manual. As for how one would become a member, that depends on the tracker. In most cases, you can just take the tracker URL's domain and visit it in your browser (so if it's something like http://tracker.site.com/announce, you check the http://site.com part). It isn't guaranteed to work, but again, it often does.