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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?

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?

-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?

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

Thanks. Looks like the kind of info I need.

If you need any more help feel free to ask.

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.

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.