Torrent DL issues

maxlords · Post by **maxlords** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 2:03 pm

I've been DLing torrents for a long time now and all of the sudden I've developed a weird issue. My seed ratio dropped below 50% (like 46%) and now all of the sudden NONE of my torrents will finish. They all just sit at like 99%. I've left other finished torrents seeding for over a week and still nothing will finish, even though my ratios are MUCH higher than they were.

Anyone have any ideas? I'm using Bitcomet for torrents, and I had to set up port forwarding with a static IP to get a full connection. I'd really like to clear off all my DLs and get my ratio back up. I only grab a few audio books and a bit of music and recent TV shows here and there so this is kinda frustrating.

jonny5 · Post by **jonny5** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 2:27 pm

bitcomet is shit

track down 1.6 utorrent or shoot me a PM and i will hook you up when i get home from work

or you could just try installing another client and load a couple of the torrents in question and see if they finish

avoid newer azureus or utorrent....they are evil

ForceDevice · Post by **ForceDevice** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 9:33 pm

jonny5 wrote: avoid newer azureus or utorrent....they are evil

What's wrong with the newer uTorrent? I use 1.6, but my sister has 1.8.whateverthenewversionis in her computer and it seems pretty decent.

t0yrobo · Post by **t0yrobo** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 10:06 pm

Agreed about switching to something other than bitcomet. I'm curious about what the deal with newer utorrent versions is also, I've been using 1.8 with no issues that I've noticed so far.

jonny5 · Post by **jonny5** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 11:24 pm

utorrent is owned by the MPAA(bought it shortly after 1.6)...so anything since 1.6 is the devil....like most private sites have newer versions of utorrent banned for that reason

azureus is the same kinda thing, just not the MPAA

Ex-Cyber · Post by **Ex-Cyber** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 12:27 am

Do you have any actual evidence that it does "evil" things? The only "newer versions" I've heard of being banned are beta releases, banned because they're beta releases.

t0yrobo · Post by **t0yrobo** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 2:05 am

Heh, I hadn't head about that, this is nicest summarization of the situation I've found after a bit of googling

" MPAA hasn't bought utorrent. BitTorrent has bought Utorrent. BitTorrent and MPAA have some sort of deal to remove copyrighted stuff from BitTorrent.com. Azeureus apparently have similar deals. So would any of the decent clients right now because the industry is trying to figure out how to recoup bitorrent and capitalise on it. "

It surely wouldn't hurt to stick with 1.6, but it doesn't sound like it's that big a deal. But since it's super easy to do and for the sake of paranoia I suppose there's no reason not to downgrade. From the little bit I've read there's no real evidence of fishy business involving the client yet.

maxlords · Post by **maxlords** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 1:48 am

Thanks for the help, jonny5! I've swapped from Bitcomet to uTorrent 1.6 and DLs are blazing now. Yay!

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 8:53 pm

I'd update uT, myself. A few good fixes in there:

http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=44003