Unable to connect to trackers (Only connecting to DHT)

[OrphiusX]

After browsing through this forum I haven't been able to hit the nail on the head and hopefully am not wasting anybody's time but as of the past week I haven't had much luck connecting to (almost) any torrents.

What I currently experience is when trying to download a torrent (several different torrents from several different sources), all of the torrents become inactive. The only torrents I have been able to download are through DHT (ie open office). The port forward test checks out ok and I've tried disabling DHT. This started happening about a week ago after approximately around the time I lost my cable connection for a few hours one night. No clue why it won't connect to any trackers. I'm currently running 1.8 build 6171. What I end up seeing in the different tabs is as follows:

Main Window:

Blue Arrow, Status = downloading, everything is stuck at 0.0

Transfer:

Solid red bar for availability (I know this is not the case)

General:

lists the torrent info but no comments

Trackers:

DHT not allowed for these torrents

Lists the Tracker name, # of seeds and peers, but hangs infinately at "updating" for status.

Any Idea why it won't connect to trackers all of the sudden? utorrent has been working beautifully for me for a while now and no configuration changes were done that I can think of. I appreciate any and all help!

Thanks in advance!

Regards, Rich

[jewelisheaven]

... Since you're using the 1.8 version, upgrade first to see if that fixes the problem. There was a problem with disabled UPNP causing something, but it was fixed several builds ago.

Otherwise, it may be your ISP disallows tracker communication.