bachlava7 Posted November 8, 2008 Report Share Posted November 8, 2008 Recently, everything that I try to download just won't download. I get the red down-arrow. I've tried going to different sites and downloading different files (music other than movie for example), but nothing seems to happen. I still get the same results. I've looked at my firewall and utorrent is allowed. What can I do? Can someone help me figure this out? I've also removed utorrent and re-installed it, but that didn't help either. Thanks.-bachlava7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted November 9, 2008 Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 Giving the tracker status message from the tracker tab would be a nice start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bachlava7 Posted November 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 The one at the bottom of my screen? It says "working", But it will sit like that for hours and do nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelittlefire Posted November 9, 2008 Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 Red down arrow means it doesn't say working. That or you selected the wrong torrent when you selected Trackers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bachlava7 Posted November 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 So what do I do? Everytime I select "download torrent" from any site and choose to open it with utorrent, within a minute I get the red down arrow. It seems as though all of my trackers either are timed out, or they don't exists (or are corrupted). But statistically speaking, that's impossible to have that happen with every one. Is there something I'm doing wrong? Or not doing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelittlefire Posted November 9, 2008 Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 OK. So the error in the trackers tab says "Offline (timeout)"? and "corrupted"??Have you tried the test torrents including http://slackware.com/torrents/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bachlava7 Posted November 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 I tried all of those test torrents and it did the exact same thing. Here is what it says in the trackers tab for the dvd torrent:Name Status Update In Seeds Peers Downloaded [DHT] working 13m 4s 0 87 0 [Local Peer Discovery] working 0 0 0 [Peer Exchange] working 0 0 0 http://tracker1.transamrit.net:8082/announce offline (timed out) updating... 0 0 0 It will just sit like this forever. I've also tried fixing my network a few times to make sure it's working, and it is. Thanks for your help so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelittlefire Posted November 9, 2008 Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 What are your Ctrl-G settings currently? And what does a speedtest show your upload speed to be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bachlava7 Posted November 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 Well, I just set my connection to 128k and it's started to download a tiny bit (which is a GREAT improvement). My upload says its ~100kb/s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelittlefire Posted November 9, 2008 Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 Set it lower, also you could try the relevant numbers @ http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=34259 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bachlava7 Posted November 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 10, 2008 Alrighty, thanks. But it appears that I can only download one thing at a time. But that's fine, I think by setting it lower that'll do the trick. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelittlefire Posted November 10, 2008 Report Share Posted November 10, 2008 Yep When you set the upload too high and uTorrent tries to upload what you tell it you can, but that overloads the connection, you don't get much download and ALL traffic suffers lag etc.One way to check if your numbers are still high... See if on the Speed tab your upload amount is a horizontal line @ the limit you set. Usually when the limit is too high you see waves with peaks and valleys. A proper restrictive upload limit doesn't show this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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