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Torrent problem

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Lately when trying to download torrents on my computer, I've had a problem: they refuse to work.

This is bothersome because my computer used to have no problem whatsoever with torrents. Back in December I torrented a fansub which shall remain nameless in under an hour and with no slowdown on my end whatsoever.

Yes, I'm hooked up to a router, but again, THIS WAS NOT A PROBLEM IN DECEMBER. Up until around late February, my computer had no trouble with torrenting stuff. It was around March that torrents just started dying on me and murdering my connection. I get insane MIRC lag from starting them, and I never get the seeds/peers to show up. Whatever I'm trying to torrent just sits there, in suspended animation, killing my connection in the meantime (however I've had no trouble in browsers- as I type this, I pulled up a six minute MIRC lag).


My brother gets torrents and such off LimeWire (with no such problems), and I'm told that might be a factor.

So what do I do? Telling my brother to stop downloading is not an option. Is there some workaround to this, or am I just fucked?

(also, please don't turn this thread into a discussion on the legality of fansubs. That's not why I put this up, and the only reason I mentioned a fansub was to give you some idea of what I was DLing in the past. This. Is. Purely. A. Technical. Question.)

(and it's uTorrent if it matters)
 
check to see if your torrents have any seeds or leechers. if they do, just try re-installing uTorrent. (the original bittorent client is better, btw)
 
It could be your ISP. They don't really like torrents in any shape or form - not only is it the #1 method of downloading/obtaining illegal material, it also puts a pretty big strain on their resources because of your constant uploading as well as downloading (and if there's one thing ISPs really want to limit you doing as much as possible, it's uploading...).

Many ISPs now either deliberately stop all BitTorrent traffic or limit it. It wouldn't surprise me if that was the issue here...
 
I solved the problem. Apparently my MIRC and my brother's LimeWire were using the same ports, and I just needed to mess around until I found a good one.

Thanks, though.
(also, Oak, I have Comcast, and AFAIK they're pretty torrent-friendly)
 
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