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Why do my peers keep disappearing?


vanclute

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I'm running UTorrent 1.81.

Downloading a particular torrent, I noticed that the download speed indicated kept disappearing, then starting over again and slowly ratcheting upwards, until it would repeat the process. If I watch the Peers tab, I can see that periodically - maybe every minute or two - all peers vanish and start populating again.

What is causing this? I haven't noticed this on any other download. Obviously it's slowing down my average download speed considerably.

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Watch your tracker list countdown (select the problem item from your list then select the "Trackers" tab) and see if your problem appears as each countdown time finishes/recycles. You might consider dumping some specific trackers (i.e. very short interval times, 404, ---)

Bear in mind that the trackers are at work allocating/prioritizing connections -- and sometimes a bit of patience is required for all that to sort out as the tracker deals with the assorted available (and ever-changing) resources. Not all trackers are equal in their ability to deal with it. As you look at your tracker list in the problem torrent --- keep a closer eye on any unique trackers (i.e. they do not appear on your OK torrents) as a possible deletion.

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