offline (timeout) error message

[anonyy]

i have port forwarded and the speedguide test shows its ok (also get a green tick)

But i have an intermittent problem with my downloads when i press update tracker it takes a while then says offline (timeout) they all go red but they are still seeding/downloading. Then after leaving it for about 45 mins it correct itself then after a few mins i get the error message again, and continues the cycle, i cannot understand what is going on here?

help

yes i have asked the tracker site to help and as far as i their concerned its set up right but i cannotunderstand for the life of me what is going on.

i use peerguardian 2 - tried turning this off

i use NOD32 (Eset Smart Security suite AV and firewall) - i can see the connected peers, i assume its set up correctly?

[jewelisheaven]

So what steps from http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=15992 have you tried. Offline is usually a sign of an overloaded connection.

[skaleton]

I have the same problem as anonyy. The torrents keep getting offline (timed out). And they are from different trackers. I have upgraded from µT 1.6.1 to 1.7.7. I run on XP SP2 with router DLink 614 and Windows Firewall.

I forwarded the ports and set up a static IP. The Network button is green.

I followed the steps of the post mentioned by jewelisheaven except the patching. I've had 4 4226 errors. But I don't feel comfortable messing with that.

And Azureus is working fine as it is.

Any other idea?

[jewelisheaven]

If you had 4226 errors persistenly you are overloading the connection. Reset the net.max_halfopen to default if you changed it. Lower concurrent connections if you increased it over recommended settings for your UPLOAD amount. You don't mention your upload. Dlinks don't always handle lots of peers well. Do you get the same problems with http://slackware.com/torrents/ ?

[skaleton]

I never changed the advanced setups and the net.max_halfopen is set to 8.

I had lowered the maximum connections to 50

From the speed test my upload limit was set to 35 KB (with Azureus I upload up to 95KB)

Same problem with slackware

[nonan]

Try patching TCPIP.SYS (if you're running Windows).

This fixed my identical problem.

I used EventID 4226 Patcher Version 2.23d from www.lvllord.de.

The default patch is for 50, but this caused problems with http uploading, so I lowered it to 40, and all's well.

Good luck.

[DreadWingKnight]

tcpip.sys patching is not a cureall.

[Switeck]

Try disabling extra features that generate extra traffic ...such as UPnP, DHT, Local Peer Discovery, and Resolve IPs in uTorrent.