rspark07 Posted December 30, 2008 Report Posted December 30, 2008 I have been downloading a large file, and was getting 80kb/s pretty consistently. I was working on my PC while the torrent was still downloading, and my PC crashed ( I think unrelated to Utorrent). When I logged back in, I restarted UTorrent, and now, I am only getting .1 or .2 kb/S. I thought it might be my router because I have the Linksys WRTF45G router known for tracking old connections for 5 days, so I updated my router firmware, but this had no effect. I've tried deleting the torrent, but not the data, and then restarting the torrent, but this had no effect either. It is as if the connections that were live when my PC crashed, no longer will let me download from them? Any ideas on how I can fix this problem without starting my downloads completely from scratch?
Switeck Posted December 30, 2008 Report Posted December 30, 2008 Maybe those other peers/seeds quit by now?If you're firewalled in uTorrent, you cannot download from other peers/seeds that are also firewalled.
rspark07 Posted December 31, 2008 Author Report Posted December 31, 2008 I don't think so. I'd like to add that this happened a couple weeks ago also, so I thought that it was just that there were no peers or seeds available. I then went to my brother's house, and tried to download the torrent again, and it was working just fine. I then went home and restarted the torrent from scratch, and it again started to work. It really seems like I am being blocked by seeds or peers. Maybe it is my router still thinking I have connections to these peers, and I have to wait 5 days for it to reset? Any other things that I can try to reset these connections.
Switeck Posted December 31, 2008 Report Posted December 31, 2008 Is your computer's ip in your router's dynamic DHCP LAN range?Does your modem have a mini-router/firewall built into it according to www.portforward.com ROUTERS section?
rspark07 Posted January 5, 2009 Author Report Posted January 5, 2009 I double checked everything, and my port forward is fine. This is a torrent specific problem and only happens on 1 torrent which has not performed correctly since my computer crashed. All other torrents with far less peers, download at fast speeds. I also tried downloading from a friends house this weekend, and it was performing great over there, so it's not the number of available seeds or peers.
Switeck Posted January 5, 2009 Report Posted January 5, 2009 Is your friend on the same ISP?If so, then you really need to start looking closely at differences!
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