Torrents hanging.

Wafflesomd · 23-November-06, 09:56 PM

So it seems that my torrents are all just hanging at "connecting to peers"

They worked last week, so I have literally no clue what's wrong.

Hibiki · 23-November-06, 10:50 PM

A few possibilites:

1) There are no peers or seeds

2) Your router and firewall (Windows or Other) are not configured to allow peers/seeds/tracker to connect with you.

Look up port forwarding and my recommendation is to use any port above 50000.

Wafflesomd · 23-November-06, 10:57 PM

It must be their tracker.

Or my client.

I was using ABC, and it was just being really wierd. I would be connected one second, I would puase the torrent, then start it, and it would never get back up and running.

I'm just using the vanilla bit torrent client right now, its working far better than ABC.

Hibiki · 24-November-06, 10:50 AM

http://forums.pcapex.com/anything_go...light=BitComet

This thread helped me out alot on which client to go for, my top picks are BitComet and μTorrent, since both are small and easy to setup.

Both don't require a bunch of ports to be open to work, but Bitcomet might be banned by a few trackers. BitComet is fast as hell when it's not banned and setup properly.

23-November-06, 09:56 PM		#1 (permalink)
Wafflesomd Banned	Torrents hanging. So it seems that my torrents are all just hanging at "connecting to peers" They worked last week, so I have literally no clue what's wrong.

23-November-06, 10:50 PM		#2 (permalink)
Hibiki Apex Tech Maniac Supreme	Re: Torrents hanging. A few possibilites: 1) There are no peers or seeds 2) Your router and firewall (Windows or Other) are not configured to allow peers/seeds/tracker to connect with you. Look up port forwarding and my recommendation is to use any port above 50000.

23-November-06, 10:57 PM		#3 (permalink)
Wafflesomd Banned	Re: Torrents hanging. It must be their tracker. Or my client. I was using ABC, and it was just being really wierd. I would be connected one second, I would puase the torrent, then start it, and it would never get back up and running. I'm just using the vanilla bit torrent client right now, its working far better than ABC.

24-November-06, 10:50 AM		#4 (permalink)
Hibiki Apex Tech Maniac Supreme	Re: Torrents hanging. http://forums.pcapex.com/anything_go...light=BitComet This thread helped me out alot on which client to go for, my top picks are BitComet and μTorrent, since both are small and easy to setup. Both don't require a bunch of ports to be open to work, but Bitcomet might be banned by a few trackers. BitComet is fast as hell when it's not banned and setup properly.

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