I thought I could figure out what I was doing, but I'm now staring at two downloads that have been showing the status as "Downloading..." for about 20 minutes, and they are still at 0%.
Is there a way to kick them into actually transferring some bits?
NUBE question--getting started
Re: NUBE question--getting started
Hi and welcome,
A few questions:
- Are you using 3.1.9.2? The version isn't that important though but its good to know which version you are using.
- Windows XP or 7?
- Are there actually peers available? If the torrent is dead, meaning there are no peers at all, you can't download either.
- Is your listening port open (green icon on the bottom)? If not it can cause some connection problems.
- Does it download if you add a different torrent that has enough seeds/peers?
A few questions:
- Are you using 3.1.9.2? The version isn't that important though but its good to know which version you are using.
- Windows XP or 7?
- Are there actually peers available? If the torrent is dead, meaning there are no peers at all, you can't download either.
- Is your listening port open (green icon on the bottom)? If not it can cause some connection problems.
- Does it download if you add a different torrent that has enough seeds/peers?
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Roller
Re: NUBE question--getting started
-Yes, Using 3.1.9.2
- Windows 7
- Like I said, I'm a nube, so I'm not sure what "peers are." None are showing. How do I get some?
- Icons at the bottom are a yellow "setup" button, a speed meter, a green down arrow, and a yellow up arrow.
How do I find/add additional torrents?
- Windows 7
- Like I said, I'm a nube, so I'm not sure what "peers are." None are showing. How do I get some?
- Icons at the bottom are a yellow "setup" button, a speed meter, a green down arrow, and a yellow up arrow.
How do I find/add additional torrents?
Re: NUBE question--getting started
Take a look here for a configuration guide:
http://www.techsupportalert.com/optimizing-qbittorrent-speed
As I said, if the torrent is dead (meaning that there are no peers available) you can't download either. Did you try a different popular torrent? You can try this torrent (just for test purpose) if it downloads or not.
http://releases.ubuntu.com/12.04/ubuntu-12.04.4-alternate-amd64.iso.torrent
If you don't know the ''torrenting'' terms take a look here, or you can use Google yourself. Plenty of information is available
.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_BitTorrent_terms
http://www.techsupportalert.com/optimizing-qbittorrent-speed
As I said, if the torrent is dead (meaning that there are no peers available) you can't download either. Did you try a different popular torrent? You can try this torrent (just for test purpose) if it downloads or not.
http://releases.ubuntu.com/12.04/ubuntu-12.04.4-alternate-amd64.iso.torrent
If you don't know the ''torrenting'' terms take a look here, or you can use Google yourself. Plenty of information is available
. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_BitTorrent_terms
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Re: NUBE question--getting started
If you need any more help feel free to ask.
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Roller
Re: NUBE question--getting started
Aha! Many thanks. Following the threads you started me on, I discovered that I had somehow enabled Anonymous mode!
All seems well, now.
The help you provided is much appreciated.
All seems well, now.
The help you provided is much appreciated.
Re: NUBE question--getting started
That explains why you were not (fully) reachable .
Anonymous Mode
Since v2.9.0, qBittorrent supports a feature called "Anonymous Mode".
When enabled, qBittorrent tries to hide its identity to a certain degree. The peer-ID will no longer include the client's fingerprint. The user-agent will be reset to an empty string. Trackers will only be used if they are using a proxy server. The listen sockets are closed, and incoming connections will only be accepted through a SOCKS5 or I2P proxy (if a peer proxy is set up and is run on the same machine as the tracker proxy). Since no incoming connections are accepted, NAT-PMP, UPnP, DHT and local peer discovery are all turned off when this setting is enabled.
If you're using I2P, it might make sense to enable anonymous mode as well.
.Anonymous Mode
Since v2.9.0, qBittorrent supports a feature called "Anonymous Mode".
When enabled, qBittorrent tries to hide its identity to a certain degree. The peer-ID will no longer include the client's fingerprint. The user-agent will be reset to an empty string. Trackers will only be used if they are using a proxy server. The listen sockets are closed, and incoming connections will only be accepted through a SOCKS5 or I2P proxy (if a peer proxy is set up and is run on the same machine as the tracker proxy). Since no incoming connections are accepted, NAT-PMP, UPnP, DHT and local peer discovery are all turned off when this setting is enabled.
If you're using I2P, it might make sense to enable anonymous mode as well.