utorrent Not Downloading at all

[asdfhelp]

Hello,

I am new to utorrent. Ive done much research and read countless threads from different websites yet I am still unable to correctly setup utorrent.

-I have downloaded utorrent 3.1.2 directly from utorrent.com. (I am on windows 7.)

-I followed the step by step intructions and made sure to check utorrent as a firewall exception.

-Upon installing I ran the tests for my upload/download speeds and clicked save. The port is also at a high number.. I read in several places it should be above 50000.

-When attempting to download a torrent from either piratebay or isohunt (with plenty more seeders than leechers) the download appears on utorrent as "downloading 0.0%" health- empty, down speed- empty, up speed- empty, ETA- infinity.

-Reading related posts I found many of the responses requesting to see the tracker information. (if needed I'll post a picture but basically it reads as follows for the selected torrent file:

DHT - waiting for announce...

Local peer Discovery - working

Peer exchange - working

than the 4 urls which I assume contain all the seeders and leachers show : "connection closed by peer" and "offline (timed out)

Im pretty sure this is just a setup issue as mostly every other post ive found on the internet includes users who have previously had utorrent working.. and this is not an issue with just 1 specific torrent file ive tried over 30 with the same results... even some music file utorrent offers to download upon installing... hopefully i provided enough info and I can get this solved. thanks

[DreadWingKnight]

What internet security software do you have installed?

[asdfhelp]

Sophos Protection. Could it be that?

[DreadWingKnight]

It likely is, given that it's showing errors consistent with internet security software not set to allow uT properly.

[asdfhelp]

Adding utorrent to the "exclusions" in Sophos properties has made no change.

[xoptics]

Check the Trackers tab and check the status for the https tracker. A certain torrent site has blacklisted (or at least not whitelisted) the latest version of uTorrent. Thus nothing I do will allow the torrents to download besides downgrading my uTorrent.

If you see nothing in that space suggesting your client is blacklisted, I still would recommend downgrading to an earlier version and see if that works.

Your uTorrent data for backup is located in (for windows 7)

C:\Users\*your account*\AppData\Roaming\uTorrent\

You can copy that folder to another space on your harddrive as a backup if you are hesitant to downgrade your uTorrent (though it should keep everything).

Hope that helps, I just figured this out and was having the same issue as you, after upgrade, none of my torrents were seeding or leeching.

peace