Madra Posted January 6, 2015 Report Share Posted January 6, 2015 Hello all, I'm having some trouble downloading torrents. I have one download working right now at normal speeds with about 450 seeders, and another one that won't move past 0.0% with over 2000 seeders. I've tried adding trackers. It seems about 70% of the torrents I try to download will not work. I don't have any anti-virus/security software installed at the moment, so that can't be the problem. Windows firewall is disabled, and uTorrent is on the whitelist anyway. This happened all of a sudden, only being a problem for the past week or so. If my ISP was blocking them I don't see how I could download some and not others. The only programs I have recently installed are WindowsBlinds and DesktopX which are Windows interface customization software, so I highly doubt that is the issue. The only issue I can see is that the ones that will not download are showing 0 seeders under the 'Trackers' tab, but I cannot figure out why. They are listed on the websites as having thousands of seeders. I mostly use oldpiratebay, mainly because I don't like being assaulted by constant ads and popups, and also because I haven't found another site that can produce better search results. I seem to be getting the most trouble from torrents I download from that site...but then again, some of them work just fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted January 6, 2015 Report Share Posted January 6, 2015 Adding trackers only increases the overhead, and doesn't actually help you with speeds. Website statistics can be padded and/or faked. Chances are, if availability on the torrent is 0.0, the seeds reported by whatever site you're using are faked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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