strange problem.

[Ware_Wolf]

i have 14 torrents seeding, and 3 i just added to download, but none are working.

no DL, no UL, and the new ones wont start.

of all of them, only 2 show peers, the rest are 0/0. none are moving.

i have 1 other from a different tracker running, and its DL and UL just fine, yet it says that tracker is offline, when it isnt.

all i get is the red arrows (tracker error) next to the torrents, and it says "tracker offline." i checked, and the tracker for those torrents is online, yet Utorrent shows them as offline as well.

i tried a different torrent from a completely different tracker, and it still wont download or upload anything.

heres a screenshot, if it will help....

im running Vista home premium with SP1 on a system with an AMD 5600Ghx processor, 4GB RAM, and plenty of HD space. i have DSL, no router or wireless connections. just direct ethernet hookup from DSL modem to my PC only.

[DreadWingKnight]

Why are you force-starting so many torrents that your connection is probably getting killed?

[Switeck]

You may be running a horribly old version of uTorrent.

You may be exceeding Vista's half open max limit...do you see 4226 errors in event viewer?

Are you uploading as quickly as you told uTorrent to?

[Ware_Wolf]

to DreadWingKnight :

i dont force start torrents normally, but i tried to see if it would help, and it didnt.

to Switeck :

i was running version 1.6. i downloaded and tried 1.7.7, and its working now.

as for the max half open limit, ive had that patched for a while, so i dont think thats what caused the problem.

the one and only torrent that would work, worked fine. i changed the up and download limits, and it responded properly. i think possibly the other tracker im using started blocking older versions of Utorrent? i havent heard back from them, so im not sure.

either way, its working fine now.

thanks to everyone for the help.

[Switeck]

Microsoft UNPATCHES the half open limit at almost every monthly update.

[Ware_Wolf]

to Switeck :

i heard it gets unpatched with most updates, but hadnt checked in a while.

after checking the event viewer, i did see a couple of 4226 errors, but the times didnt correspond to the times i had the problem. oddly enough, i had 2 about 2 weeks before the problem started.

if i can find the patch again, ill try reapplying it.

[Lord Alderaan]

Instead limit the max_halfopen in advanced preferences of µtorrent to 8 or 4. A simply solution with no side effects that you don't have to check back upon every time a new windows update is released.

[Radha1]

I am downloading and it has an upspeed but the little number which say's whether I'm uploading or not remains at 0. I need help!