Arrggghhhh Why Can I Not Get Torrents?

[Practising Troublemaker]

Seriously this has gone on for too long. I have been trying for ages to succesfully download torrents but it will not happen for me. I have used a range of programmes such as BitComet and uTorrent as places in which my downloading would take place but still nothing. I know how they work and so I have been going for items with plenty of seeders. The other day I tried downloading from Smiths Torrents an after 7 hours it was still 0%!!

HELP ME, I WOULD LOVE TO BE ABLE TO ACTUALLY DOWNLOAD TORRENTS!!

 

[WhatDifferenceDoesItMake?]

How's your computer connected?

 

[Practising Troublemaker]

How's your computer connected?

Do you mean is it broadband or dial-up?, if this is what you mean it is broadband.

 

[WhatDifferenceDoesItMake?]

Yeh, so it's not a wireless connection? No router's involved in your setup?

 

[Practising Troublemaker]

I don't have a router involve at all

 

[WhatDifferenceDoesItMake?]

Well what usually happens, say you open up uTorrent, and open your .torrent file, what happens, does the arrow go red or blue?

 

[suparni]

Hi PT,

a key step - at first it appears difficult but it is in fact simple - DID YOU SETUP A STATIC IP ADDRESS?

on utorrent there is a link to a very simple way to do this - step by step instruction in dos.

let me know if you did this...

love,
s

Seriously this has gone on for too long. I have been trying for ages to succesfully download torrents but it will not happen for me. I have used a range of programmes such as BitComet and uTorrent as places in which my downloading would take place but still nothing. I know how they work and so I have been going for items with plenty of seeders. The other day I tried downloading from Smiths Torrents an after 7 hours it was still 0%!!

HELP ME, I WOULD LOVE TO BE ABLE TO ACTUALLY DOWNLOAD TORRENTS!!

 

[Practising Troublemaker]

Well what usually happens, say you open up uTorrent, and open your .torrent file, what happens, does the arrow go red or blue?

It goes red what is going on?

 

[Practising Troublemaker]

Hi PT,

a key step - at first it appears difficult but it is in fact simple - DID YOU SETUP A STATIC IP ADDRESS?

on utorrent there is a link to a very simple way to do this - step by step instruction in dos.

let me know if you did this...

love,
s

I'm really not sure what you mean, I know you are trying to help and I appreciate that but could you tell me how to access this link?

 

[DavidA]

When you run utorrent, do you get a green tick on the status bar on the bottom of the window? See here for a screenshot of my setup.

 

[Practising Troublemaker]

It has no green tick and on whatever I try to download there is no bar next to 'Downloaded' and a complete red bar next to 'Availability'.

 

[suparni]

I'm really not sure what you mean, I know you are trying to help and I appreciate that but could you tell me how to access this link?

http://www.utorrent.com/setup_guide.php

follow these instuctions... notice step #3 about static ip - follow the link there and go step by step through the instructions on the black screen that is DOS on your pc.

 

[Practising Troublemaker]

I have tried the static IP address thing, now only time will tell.

 

[Practising Troublemaker]

http://www.utorrent.com/setup_guide.php

follow these instuctions... notice step #3 about static ip - follow the link there and go step by step through the instructions on the black screen that is DOS on your pc.

No such luck I'm afrai, looks like I'm stuck without Torrents which is a shame as I would love to be able to get videos, thanks for the advice anyway xx.

 

[WhatDifferenceDoesItMake?]

Which firewall are you using? If you haven't already set the client to unblocked do so & if that doesn't work, try disabling it momentarily and seeing if that helps (my ZoneAlarm blocked some programs regardless of what I told it).

 

[suparni]

Which firewall are you using? If you haven't already set the client to unblocked do so & if that doesn't work, try disabling it momentarily and seeing if that helps (my ZoneAlarm blocked some programs regardless of what I told it).

yes... disable that firewall... mine did the same thing...
see if it works

then reconfigure the firewall... fiddle with it... see if thats whats tripping you up.

don't worry... we will nail this.