happysanook Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 torrents are sometimes taking a long while before starting.. have never run into this before. anybody have any ideas? it seems quite random... some start right away, others sit there for a week before starting....even when there are plenty of seeds and leechers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigt3365 Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 Something else must be going on. I'm not having those problems. Never have. Very strange! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happynthailand Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 use any number of " hide ip address" program,there are some free & some you have to pay (good for a year) use any ip address in the us,that will speed things up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silsburyhill Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 If you're having to resort to Vuze, after the stupid and unnecessary 'update' of Bittorrent (who bought out Utorrent), then after 'downloading' you must go to your docs/downloads, find the particular torrent in the list and kickstart it by clicking on and then opening/initiating Vuze, which will then show a 'loading bar'. If your torrent consists multiple files, ie, anything other than a lone episode/song off an album etc, then install VLC which will automatically revert your files. Easy. Otherwise will sit in stupid unnecessarily complicated Vuze 4ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astral Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 You don't say if it is with a particular tracker? All my torrents start within seconds and are usually finished within minutes on UKN, TE and TVC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happysanook Posted June 30, 2012 Author Share Posted June 30, 2012 (edited) use any number of " hide ip address" program,there are some free & some you have to pay (good for a year) use any ip address in the us,that will speed things up Ok, will give this a go... You don't say if it is with a particular tracker? All my torrents start within seconds and are usually finished within minutes on UKN, TE and TVC Using uTorrent on 3bb... It's quite strange... Sometimes they'll sit there for hours doing absolutely zero ... In "info" for a particular torrent, it will say something like Seeders: 1 of 128 connected (300 in swarm) Leechers: 1 of 200 connected (400 in swarm) ... will sit there doing nothing for many hours, sometimes days, then all of a sudden start downloading at hundreds of Kb/s... Edited June 30, 2012 by happysanook Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobl Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 If you're having to resort to Vuze, after the stupid and unnecessary 'update' of Bittorrent (who bought out Utorrent), then after 'downloading' you must go to your docs/downloads, find the particular torrent in the list and kickstart it by clicking on and then opening/initiating Vuze, which will then show a 'loading bar'. If your torrent consists multiple files, ie, anything other than a lone episode/song off an album etc, then install VLC which will automatically revert your files. Easy. Otherwise will sit in stupid unnecessarily complicated Vuze 4ever. I've been using Vuze since it was Azureus, and never had any of the problems you mention. I admit I don't like all the crap they bolted onto it over the years but I have mine set to the "legacy" settings look & feel like the old Azureus. Torrents and magnet links load up and start downloading just fine, with no interaction at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangkockney Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 3BB limits BitTorrent traffic, traffic shapes and throttles, which might be your problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoloFlyer Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 I get the same thing, on 3BB, uTorrent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobl Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 3BB at the house in Mae Rim - apart from the obvious (reasonably fast @ off-peak hours, not so great at peak hours) I don't have the problem of torrents not starting... Sometimes they can take a few minutes to pick up speed (especially at the aforementioned peak hours) but I haven't noticed them stall in the manner described by the OP... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samtam Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 Seems to be some problem downloading from KAT today, but maybe because of the power outage in the USA. Anyone having the same...(not dowloading). Other sites are OK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankold Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Enable encryption on utorrent, Install tor, route connections to the tracker through the tor socks. Problem solved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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