Peer error: Offline(Timed out) - Every single peer

[AloMatty]

Hi, For some reason I can't get any peers because they keep timing out? (Almost instantly), here's a log:

EDIT: I can upload fine. And I have plenty of seeds.

[2009-10-14 13:45:56]  92.49.146.0:35840: Disconnect: Peer error: offline (timed out)
[2009-10-14 13:45:57]  220.235.143.213:2193: Disconnect: Same ID
[2009-10-14 13:45:57]  220.235.143.213:63392: Disconnect: Connection closed
[2009-10-14 13:45:58]  75.63.181.103:52773: Disconnect: Peer error: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. 
[2009-10-14 13:45:58]  92.113.201.147:14099: Disconnect: Peer error: offline (timed out)
[2009-10-14 13:45:59]  110.164.15.189:3072: Disconnect: Connection closed
[2009-10-14 13:46:00]  87.179.95.108:1500: Disconnect: Peer error: offline (timed out)
[2009-10-14 13:46:01]  87.237.114.8:33607: Disconnect: Peer error: offline (timed out)
[2009-10-14 13:46:01]  78.141.154.194:24842: Disconnect: Duplicate connection (aborted outgoing)
[2009-10-14 13:46:02]  78.154.137.156:46833: Disconnect: Connection closed
[2009-10-14 13:46:02]  41.201.121.206:32479: Disconnect: Duplicate connection (aborted outgoing)
[2009-10-14 13:46:03]  217.74.237.246:64785: Disconnect: Peer error: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. 
[2009-10-14 13:46:05]  189.114.229.131:16883: Disconnect: Connection closed
[2009-10-14 13:46:07]  200.140.14.213:64100: [µTorrent 1.8.3 (100.0)]: Disconnect: Connection closed
[2009-10-14 13:46:16]  124.105.105.208:11162: Disconnect: Duplicate connection (aborted outgoing)
[2009-10-14 13:46:16]  110.164.15.189:39905: Disconnect: Timed out
[2009-10-14 13:46:16]  200.195.165.0:44590: Disconnect: Peer error: offline (timed out)
[2009-10-14 13:46:17]  79.133.148.122:15974: Disconnect: Peer error: offline (timed out)
[2009-10-14 13:46:22]  174.88.127.0:63130: Disconnect: Peer error: offline (timed out)
[2009-10-14 13:46:22]  200.195.165.18:64185: [µTorrent 1.8.3 (100.0)]: Disconnect: Timeout due to inactivity
[2009-10-14 13:46:22]  78.60.192.182:58380: [µTorrent 1.8.4 (100.0)]: Disconnect: Timeout due to inactivity
[2009-10-14 13:46:22]  84.115.178.26:51686: [Azureus 4.2.0.4 (100.0)]: Disconnect: Timeout due to inactivity
[2009-10-14 13:46:22]  121.54.64.40:2927: [µTorrent 1.8.4 (100.0)]: Disconnect: Timeout due to inactivity
[2009-10-14 13:46:22]  72.12.145.120:63542: [µTorrent 1.8.4 (100.0)]: Disconnect: Timeout due to inactivity
[2009-10-14 13:46:22]  78.59.46.119:64298: [µTorrent 1.8.3 (100.0)]: Disconnect: Timeout due to inactivity
[2009-10-14 13:46:22]  219.74.182.72:51825: [µTorrent 1.8.4 (100.0)]: Disconnect: Timeout due to inactivity
[2009-10-14 13:46:22]  72.12.145.120:15629: Disconnect: Peer error: offline (timed out)
[2009-10-14 13:46:25]  85.173.252.27:49062: Disconnect: Peer error: offline (timed out)
[2009-10-14 13:46:25]  220.235.143.213:2213: Disconnect: Same ID
[2009-10-14 13:46:25]  220.235.143.213:63392: Disconnect: Connection closed
[2009-10-14 13:46:25]  189.83.13.173:20038: Disconnect: Peer error: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. 
[2009-10-14 13:46:26]  76.116.120.142:39807: Disconnect: Peer error: offline (timed out)
[2009-10-14 13:46:27]  220.247.234.148:15456: Disconnect: Peer error: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. 
[2009-10-14 13:46:27]  71.195.230.64:35691: Disconnect: Peer error: offline (timed out)
[2009-10-14 13:46:29]  77.41.61.244:1500: [FDM 3.x (100.0)]: Disconnect: Connection closed
[2009-10-14 13:46:34]  220.235.143.213:2225: Disconnect: Same ID
[2009-10-14 13:46:34]  220.235.143.213:63392: Disconnect: Connection closed
[2009-10-14 13:46:39]  79.47.177.77:13717: Disconnect: Peer error: offline (timed out)

[Switeck]

1st link in my signature...that can be caused by bad networking, bad uTorrent settings, and/or bad ISP/s.

[AloMatty]

I just noticed this only happens with two torrents so far, Which happen to be the ones I want most lol.

I guess its just the trackers.

[Switeck]

Trackers aren't peers and seeds.

If you're connecting or failing to connect to them is not the tracker's control.

You might get better results doing this:

http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=46778

or this:

http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=58714

(NOTE: Those settings were a special case for a wireless ISP, so understand them before you try them!)

[ceciliawolf]

I have this problem too (and others) that are driving me crazy for a week now. I'm seeding 115 torrents (my own files, I created them**) and I don't download. Things were fine until last week when the upload lowered from 20-50 kBps to 0.1 to 3 kBps. I was using version 2.1.1. When I started logging the trafic I noticed that:

1. I was beeing flooded with "no such torrent" and about 10 incomming connections per second (aha! that's why my traffic was so heavy in the "local connection" window). I think this is the so dreaded DoS (Denial of Service).

2. After upgrading to version 3 and re-adding all the torrents (I changed my disc), when it starts my own IP is an incomming connection and is refused with the message "disconnect: same ID" and is banned, in another message in this forum was refered to as "loopback". ALL the torrents I upload do this, and for each one a port is opened (is it closed?), and consumes 10 minutes doing it. Until now I found no solution. I thought it was the "initial seed" parameter in the torrent, but reading its explanation seems that's not it.

3. The public trackers I use are "timed out" for days (now one is back), i.e., tracker.openbittorrent and tracker.publicbt.

4. The network sign was green, but when I checked the network it said "port is not open (but you can still download)". It lasted for days, now it's ok.

Following and advise in this forum I disabled: DHT, uPnP, NAT-PMP, ask tracker for scrape, uTP, Local Peer Discovery, resolve IPs. I also lowered the "global maximum number of connections" to 25 (was 120) and "randomize port each start". The number of incomming connections lowered dramatically and my traffic is normal (almost no activity), but:

5. 99% of the incomming connections are disconnected with "Is seed" or "peer error: offline (timed out)" (after 21 seconds or 9 seconds if it is uTP). My searches to resolve it went nowhere, like this topic.

What's happening? I contacted my ISP, they advised me to turn off my modem for eight hours to change my IP but it didn't change. Is it the software, the ISP, my modem (Motorola SBV5121i)? Does the DoS affect the upload speed? I tryed Vuze but I didn't like it, it took me hours to learn to use it and I gave up. I was happy yesterday, someone could upload one torrent (230 MB) at 47 kBps but the next client (foreign, a portuguese) for the same torrent, starting right after the other finished, was uploading at 0.1-3 kBps and lost connection after 5 min, and coudn't reconnect (peer error: offline). There's a pattern when the speed is low: it starts at 3.x kBps and drops 0.5-0.1 kBps each second, when it reaches 0.1 returns to 3 kBps.

** I'm recording The Dog Whisperer from TV, in Brazil it's "O Encantador de Caes". You can find the torrents in Seedpeer and BTJunkie.

[udhackers]

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plzzzz help..

[DreadWingKnight]

Nothing misbehaving there that I can see except that if your internet connection is dropping, your internet security software or hardware is misconfigured.