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Networking woes!
Bob The Monkey
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OK, I've got the torrents working. Unfortunately, I now have a recurring networking problem plaguing the link between my computer and the router.
Occasionally I'll lose all connection to the network, and the network icon in the taskbar will switch to the "Limited Connectivity" icon. There seems to be no way to repair this (Vista's built in diagnose/repair utility does nothing, just suggests a lot of useless things) other than restarting the computer entirely. If you disconnect from the network, Windows says it can't find any networks at all. Excellent.
Now, I know the problem is between my computer and the router, rather than the router and the internet, because I can't do any other network related activity when it happens. Buggery.
Now, I genuinely can't remember if this had happened at all before last night, but I'm certain it hadn't happened with this regularity. I've changed these things recently which could have caused it:
1) Set up my computer to have a static IP on the network.
2) Switched my Bittorrent client to uTorrent.
3) ???. I genuinely can't think of anything else I've fiddled with.
So help me, G&T, you're my only hope!
OK, I've got the torrents working. Unfortunately, I now have a recurring networking problem plaguing the link between my computer and the router.
Occasionally I'll lose all connection to the network, and the network icon in the taskbar will switch to the "Limited Connectivity" icon. There seems to be no way to repair this (Vista's built in diagnose/repair utility does nothing, just suggests a lot of useless things) other than restarting the computer entirely. If you disconnect from the network, Windows says it can't find any networks at all. Excellent.
Now, I know the problem is between my computer and the router, rather than the router and the internet, because I can't do any other network related activity when it happens. Buggery.
Now, I genuinely can't remember if this had happened at all before last night, but I'm certain it hadn't happened with this regularity. I've changed these things recently which could have caused it:
1) Set up my computer to have a static IP on the network.
2) Switched my Bittorrent client to uTorrent.
3) ???. I genuinely can't think of anything else I've fiddled with.
So help me, G&T, you're my only hope!
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-are ports opened on the router?
-are you using those ports?
-ie, are you set to a static address on your network?
-are you encrypting? uTorrent should do this automatically or at least make it really easy to turn on.
If it is the case, there is nothing you can do except try utorrent and all its encryption jazz.
Ring em and find out, Ive found they are quite proud to admit if they are as for regular users its under some bullshit fair usage policy.
*hates his college network*
I recently canceled my Rogers service, emailed all the local ISPs questions about their torrent policies, and signed up for Start.ca, which has no restrictions, and 5mbps service, and voila, torrents are back to going great speeds.
So the first step would be to find out if your ISP is stopping it. Just search google with your ISP's name and the word torrent and you'll see if people are bitching about it.
As quintile noted, Rogers is a particular offender, at my parent's place I too get only 1k/s *at best* on even the most well seeded torrents.
The only solution is to switch, or use utorrent and azureus's encryption mode.
I'M A TWITTER SHITTER
-My ports have been forwarded. I never realised this was so important, whoops.
-Client changed from BitTornado to uTorrent. I can't remember why I ever stopped using uTorrent, but it also seems to be helping a lot. It's also nice that it links you to lots of nice websites with details for setting up your browser, and it comes with utilities to test if your ports are properly forwarded. Nice!
yeah, im on utorrent, and my ports are forwarded correctly. this is like the 3rd or 4th time this has happened recently. and its really pissing me off.
(I'm looking at you, PureTnA)
But yeah, fiddling with encryption options is your best bet. Or try leaving it running overnight and seeing if you get any decent progress.
or maybe it's like a truck
a Truck driving in your plumbing, stop flushing dinky cars in the toilet. (now apply that to the internet)
You're downloading fake RIAA/MPAA files.
That happens? I don't even notice. At least my ratio there is well over 1 and I don't even pay attention to it at all.
OH NO I ADMITTED TO DOWNLOADING PORNS ON THE INTERNETS!
you sicko
It happens when there are too many seeders and not enough downloaders. So if you hop on something when there are 800 seeders and nobody wants the damn thing anymore, you have nobody to seed to, and when you do have somebody to seed to, there are 800 other people seeding as well. That's no problem on public torrents since ratio doesn't matter, but on private sites it screws the whole thing up which is why many sites have rules against overseeding. The best thing you can do for the community is hold a 1.0 ratio.
You counteract that by seeding popular torrents for a good period of time. Or only doing that with smaller files and sharing the larger files to at least a 1.0 ratio.
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I had the same issue with utorrent. Apparently its a common issue with utorrent. They claimed to have fixed it with the latest revison but i still have the same issue. I switched back to azeurus and i havent had issues since but i dislike azeurus becuase its such a memory hog (thanks JRE). I've had some limited experience with ABCtorrent and others and it seems alright with those too so i say experiment around till ya find a client that works best for ya.
actually if your problem is just failing the hash check, your router may have you in a DMZ.
i had this once, took my PC out of the DMZ, bam, i had like 3 or 4 at 99.9, all finished in the next 10 seconds.
Also recent events about privacy with both Azureus and utorrent have some people using different clients now.
Satan.
I had to limit speed...or the number of torrents. None of this helped absolutely. There were tons of websites with tips when I googled my router number, modem type and torrent.
I switched ISPs about 7 months ago and have not had the problem since.
The network disconnect problem, or the torrent limiting problem?
When I had this problem, the program I was using had a TON of available information from them and elsewhere online on what to do with certain configurations leading to this problem. I mean, it seems like you already got the port forwarding done - which always seemed like the trickiest thing - so I'd check their resources for any info.