mithril Posted April 11, 2013 Report Share Posted April 11, 2013 Background:I had version 1.8.3 installed and it was working just fine, I've had 0 problems whatsoever.The issues started after utorrent updated automatically to version 1.8.4. I noticed Firefox had crashed and when I restarted it the spigot plugins were installed and utorrent was at version 1.8.4. No confirmation or notice appeared. Issues:Ever since the upgrade I can't download a torrent, especially ones where I skip files.It starts downloading, speed is according to my isp, but after a while the download speed drops to about 9kb/s and stays there for maybe 3 to 7 minutes before it jumps up again and so on.When the download reaches 99% the status indicator is "flushing to disk" and doesn't change.If I quit utorrent and do a force re-check the torrent is somewhere between 70-88% complete, and when it finishes I'm back where I started. Enviroment:Mac OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard What I have tried so far:-quit utorrent, deleted partfile, force re-check then start: doesn't work-downgrade to 1.8.3 : doesn't work-deleted utorrent and all files related, clean install (both 1.8.3 and 1.8.4): doesn't work-set diskio.use_partfile to false (both 1.8.3 and 1.8.4): doesn't work-set diskio.coalesce_writes to false (both 1.8.3 and 1.8.4): doesn't work-double the value of diskio.coalesce_write_size (both 1.8.3 and 1.8.4): doesn't work-set peer.resolve_country to false (both 1.8.3 and 1.8.4): doesn't work-I tried using a settings.dat file that a user suggested in another post: doesn't workThe only version that I can use now is 1.6.5I can't, for the life of me, figure out what happened.Any suggestion is welcome, I'm stumped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mithril Posted April 17, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2013 nothing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mithril Posted May 14, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 14, 2013 bump... help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mithril Posted June 12, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2013 Well f*** me sideways, it looks like all I had to do was check "Automatically manage bandwidth" under Bandwidth.A couple of weeks after downgrading to 1.6.5 I decided to try again and update to 1.8.4 and the dreaded 9kb/s issue reared it's ugly head again.I went through the settings again and though to select "Automatically manage bandwidth".Restarted utorrent and: It works, finally.Hope this helps other users facing similar issues.Wasn't going to post my "fix" but seeing as the developers rarely provide a resolution I thought to lend a helping hand.TL;DR: Check "Automatically manage bandwidth". Thanks for nothing support team! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciaobaby Posted June 12, 2013 Report Share Posted June 12, 2013 Thanks for nothing support team!Well as there isn't a support "team" .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mithril Posted June 12, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2013 Thanks for nothing support team!Well as there isn't a support "team" ....http://forum.utorrent.com/userlist.php?show_group=6&sort_by=username&sort_dir=ASC&search=Submit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciaobaby Posted June 13, 2013 Report Share Posted June 13, 2013 Actually it would be;http://forum.utorrent.com/userlist.php?show_group=9&sort_by=username&sort_dir=ASC&search=SubmitAnd you can see just how often they answer questions.The 'Helpers' are NOT necessarily BT/uT staff, just members and uTorrent users in a forum group. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mithril Posted June 14, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2013 I stand corrected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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