Preytor Posted March 17, 2015 Report Share Posted March 17, 2015 Until 2 days ago I was able to download torrents without any problem.But yesterday when I tried downloading some movies I couldn't download any of them.I tried many different torrents to be sure that there are seeders available,I tried 5 different torrent clients to be sure that μTorrent wasn't the problem and I even tried 3 different pc but nothing helped.I read in some other forums that the problem was probably my ISP so I downloaded and tried 2 different VPN's,hideme and one else whose name I can't remember but still nothing changed.I am getting pretty desperate here because I think I have tried everything.Oh and I have allowed the program to get past my firewall so that isn't the problem either.Anyone have any ideas how to fix this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted March 17, 2015 Report Share Posted March 17, 2015 What firewall? What changed 2 days ago? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preytor Posted March 17, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2015 What firewall?What changed 2 days ago?I am just using the default windows firewall and I don't think anything has changed 2 days ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted March 17, 2015 Report Share Posted March 17, 2015 Tried winsock reset? https://iihelp.iinet.net.au/Resetting_Network_Adapter_%28Winsock_Reset%29 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preytor Posted March 17, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2015 Tried winsock reset?https://iihelp.iinet.net.au/Resetting_Network_Adapter_%28Winsock_Reset%29Just tried it and reset my computer,still nothing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted March 17, 2015 Report Share Posted March 17, 2015 Do torrents from http://slackware.com/getslack/torrents.php work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preytor Posted March 17, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2015 Do torrents from http://slackware.com/getslack/torrents.php work?That's wierd.This acutally works.I downloaded the slackware 64 and it started downloading(although I have no idea what exactly this is.)but still all the other downloads don't work.Should I finish the slackware download? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted March 17, 2015 Report Share Posted March 17, 2015 No, it's probably a case of the specific torrents you're downloading not actually having the peers the site claims they have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preytor Posted March 17, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2015 No, it's probably a case of the specific torrents you're downloading not actually having the peers the site claims they have.But when I told my friend to download the movies at the exact time I was trying to download them,he had no problem at all and I am sure that he is saying the truth since he was sharing his screen on skype. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted March 17, 2015 Report Share Posted March 17, 2015 Then something in your setup (either configuration settings or some piece of software) is blocking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preytor Posted March 17, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2015 Then something in your setup (either configuration settings or some piece of software) is blockingIn all three of the computers I tried it on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted March 17, 2015 Report Share Posted March 17, 2015 Which points to the router as most likely, although it could be something else installed on the machines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preytor Posted March 17, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2015 Which points to the router as most likely, although it could be something else installed on the machines.I don't that something specific is installed on all of the machines that could be preventing the download so there is probably something going on with the router.But what could it be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted March 17, 2015 Report Share Posted March 17, 2015 SPI Firewall, other security settings in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preytor Posted March 17, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2015 SPI Firewall, other security settings in it.And do you know how exactly I can change these settings? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted March 17, 2015 Report Share Posted March 17, 2015 Nope, I probably don't have the same router you do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preytor Posted March 17, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2015 Nope, I probably don't have the same router you do.Oh,so this varies from router to router.Ok,should i try to turn the firewall off and try to download the files I want or is there something else specific I should do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preytor Posted March 17, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2015 Nope, I probably don't have the same router you do.Just checked and the firewall was already disabled,so that wasn't the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted March 17, 2015 Report Share Posted March 17, 2015 Whatever it is, it's specific to your setup and isn't caused by uTorrent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preytor Posted March 17, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2015 Whatever it is, it's specific to your setup and isn't caused by uTorrent.I never said it was caused by uTorrent.As mentioned in the problem's description I tried 5 different clients and none of them worked properly.I am just trying to find the solution to my problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColForbin5 Posted March 19, 2015 Report Share Posted March 19, 2015 I had the same problem across several clients. I found that changing my router firewall setting to minimum and unchecking " Apply rate limit to uTP connections" option ( under the Global Rate Limit Options subheading) along with a windsock reset has pretty much taken care of this issue. Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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