U torrent can no longer connect

[Cosmos]

I am used to using u torrent and bit torrent to download files. Yesteday they both stopped connecting and downloading and just tells me ....connecting to peers ... and nothing else happens. I tried uninstallng both programs and reinstalling them. No luck and the same message. Is it possible that I was banned for some reason and if so why and how to undo the ban.

I recently had a major hard drive crash and lost 5 hard drives so i cannot share and seed as much as i used to in the past. Maybe this is the reason.

Please ... any help anyone can give me will be greatly appreciated. Even if it is just to tell me what happened.

Thanks in advance.

Professormp3