bombayteddy Posted August 23, 2010 Report Share Posted August 23, 2010 I am a new user and not really sure how this works. I tried downloading an avi file of the movie "Travels with my Aunt" but it has stuck at 89%. How can I try and complete the download? Any help would be much appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted August 23, 2010 Report Share Posted August 23, 2010 What is the listed availability for the torrent? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bombayteddy Posted August 23, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 23, 2010 Thanks for replying.The webpage for this torrent on isohunt says there are 0 seeds. However, "open.tracker.thepiratebay.org:80/announce" is listed in red and there is a ? after it. And in the list of trackers on the download, it says "no connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it" on piratebay. I have checked piratebay and this torrent isnt listed there.I cant understand how I was able to download 89% of this torrent if there are no seeds!What do I do now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted August 23, 2010 Report Share Posted August 23, 2010 That doesn't answer my question in the slightest.Availability is shown in your client in a dedicated column. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bombayteddy Posted August 23, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 23, 2010 I'm sorry. The availability listed on the download is 0.894. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted August 23, 2010 Report Share Posted August 23, 2010 Then the swarm only has 89.4% of pieces among downloaders in it and there's nothing we can do to help you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bombayteddy Posted August 23, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 23, 2010 Thank you very much for trying to help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted August 23, 2010 Report Share Posted August 23, 2010 Remove the dead TPB tracker.Add these trackers in its place:http://tracker.openbittorrent.com/announcehttp://tracker.publicbt.com/announce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bombayteddy Posted August 23, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 23, 2010 Thanks for the suggestion. Tried it; but no improvement so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted August 24, 2010 Report Share Posted August 24, 2010 Then the torrent's probably hopelessly dead and you're likely wasting time and bandwidth on it. Start other torrents instead with that one set to LOW priority and maybe even only 1 upload slot and/or very low upload speed. Check it occasionally for changes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bombayteddy Posted August 24, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 24, 2010 I think you're right....but cant get over the fact that I got 89% of it and then it stopped! Terribly frustrating. I shall do what you suggest...keep low upload settings on it and check occasionally if it has resumed.Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted August 24, 2010 Report Share Posted August 24, 2010 BTW, the reason to set upload speed and upload slots on it really low is not so much to leech the rest of it as to not let anyone else get their hopes up over a lost cause. So don't feel bad about it at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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