Overman42 Posted July 23, 2008 Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 I can't get a single bittorrent client to work. I've googled all of my problems and everything, and done every single suggestion I've seen, and nothing's worked so far. Here's what's going on:I'm on a campus connection, but at a private college that doesn't interfere with my connection (and I doubt this has changed, since LimeWire still works, except as a bittorrent client). I open up utorrent (or BitComment, or Azureus, etc), and I'm not logged on to DHT. The portforward test says I'm properly forwarded, so I don't think that's the problem. My only firewall is Windows, and utorrent is excepted. Also, any torrent I open is unable to load because it's supposedly corrupted. Any torrent at all. Torrents used to work fine for me, and now I can't get them to work with any client at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted July 23, 2008 Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 Have you tried downloading the .torrent file through a proxy?...Then using forced encryption and no incoming legacy connections in uTorrent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overman42 Posted July 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 All the same problems apply. Still waiting to login, still unable to load the torrent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted July 23, 2008 Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 Your college ISP screws with .torrent downloads. You have to use a proxy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overman42 Posted July 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 How do I use a proxy for utorrent? Like I said, I downloaded through a proxy just now, and that didn't do the trick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted July 23, 2008 Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 If you got the .torrent file just fine, then I don't know...maybe if uTorrent itself was run through a remote VPN it might work. But using a remote VPN is often no better than getting a separate internet connection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overman42 Posted July 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 Well, it downloaded fine, it just won't load into uTorrent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted July 23, 2008 Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 If you used a proxy and the .torrent download is still corrupted, you might need an encrypted proxy then. In other words, a VPN or SSH proxy.http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/ I assume a torrent from here doesn't work either? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overman42 Posted July 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 Nope, still says it's invalid. What should I try next? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted July 23, 2008 Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 If it's possible and/or easy, testing your computer on a different ISP.This would rule out computer problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overman42 Posted July 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 How would I go about doing that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTHK Posted July 23, 2008 Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 Bring your computer to a friends house if you can, or home, either as long as the ISP is different. Maybe even find and dial a free ISP and see if getting a .torrent that way works. You could also try another computer in the same college, the result of that test may prove useful.Since your at a college, do you have another computer at home? Maybe you could send connections through that :/Using magnet URI's may work for a few torrents, but only if DHT is enabled and you have the currently experimental 1.8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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