Some torrents wont download - SRT Forums

paint · 10-08-2009, 02:59 PM

For a reason unknown to me, only some torrents will download for me, regardless of the number of seeders.

Most torrents I download will connect normally, download, and wont give me any problems. A few however, will refuse to connect to other peers and will not download.

A torrent for Futurama was one recently, there was around 300-400 seeders, and 800-900 peers. Would not connect to a single one even after days of leaving uTorrent running. Tried Operation Flashpoint yesterday. The most I ever saw it do was connect for 5-10 seconds and download at a couple kbps. It has almost 1700 seeders and 16,400 peers.

To make sure it wasnt my connection or settings I downloaded Open Office. It had a couple hundred seeders, and it downloaded all 175mb in about 5 minutes, speeds ranging from 700 - 1100 kbps.

Anyone have any idea why it is doing this?

SRTie4k · 10-09-2009, 01:12 AM

Most likely a port issue. I'm not familiar with uTorrent, but a lot of torrent programs will use a random port between 6881 and 6999, or between 10000 and 30000 (depending on the program).

You need to find out what ports your torrent program tries to use then setup an exception in your firewall for that range of ports (if you have one). If you have a router, you will need to setup port forwarding for that range of TCP ports. You also need to assign your PC a static IP since port forwarding relies on one IP to forward to, and DHCP can cause problems in that regard.