loki980 Posted October 2, 2011 Report Share Posted October 2, 2011 This is driving me crazy. It just started a few months ago after a long time using RSS with torrents. I cannot leave uTorrent open while watching videos, because while downloading, the program sends random characters to whatever window has focus. This inevitably leads to the show I'm watching pausing, rewinding, stopping exiting, etc etc. I can open notepad and grab the characters as they're typed.Here's a few seconds capture:ffaa88ddbbffccffffffaaaa8888ddddbbbbffffccccffffThey seem to come in in groups of a few characters at a time.I've searched the internet high and low for this problem to no avail. I tried switching from uTorrent to Vuze to try and fix this. I was dumbfounded that it happened in the other program, too. Anyway, any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki980 Posted October 2, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 2, 2011 Ok, I'm pretty sure it's a problem with intelliremote. If I close intelliremote, the problem doesn't happen. However, the problem doesn't occur unless I'm downloading a torrent AND intelliremote is running. Really weird. Will report back if I find anything. I'm going to try upgrading intelliremote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki980 Posted October 4, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 4, 2011 Figured out the strange characters issue. Apparently torrents blast traffic over port 80. This is picked up by intelliremote (it supports web server and TCP port controls) and broadcast to the desktop.A thread on the intelliremote forums with a solution:http://forum.melloware.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8575&p=21683 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tstwitter Posted October 4, 2011 Report Share Posted October 4, 2011 Does utorrent really ever use port 80 ? I thought that was the whole reason why utorrent does work behind a hardened corporate firewall. At least that is the reason why I only open certain ports on our corporate firewalls to prevent P2P file sharing programs. I thought limewire could use port 80 but I didn't know any others could.Any comments anyone ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted October 4, 2011 Report Share Posted October 4, 2011 Apparently torrents blast traffic over port 80.Only when they mistakenly have trackers like thepiratebay's one still listed in them.I would suspect the problem is that intelliremote isn't handling those announce requests properly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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