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torrents not working

Posted: Wed May 09, 2018 3:55 pm
by pcboo
when i do a search for torrents it shows the size and seeds. i then click to download it and it shows in the transfers as no seeds and 0 size. this happens with all the searches using qbittorrent.

Re: torrents not working

Posted: Thu May 10, 2018 4:16 am
by Switeck
A VPN, proxy, or firewall could be blocking qBitTorrent.

...Or a hostile ISP.

If you've used other BitTorrent clients in the recent past, do they work?

Re: torrents not working

Posted: Thu May 10, 2018 5:35 pm
by pcboo
no. other BitTorrent clients do not work either. is it something to do with cyberghost

Re: torrents not working

Posted: Thu May 10, 2018 6:02 pm
by Switeck
"is it something to do with cyberghost"

Probably so.

Re: torrents not working

Posted: Sat May 12, 2018 4:05 am
by Eddie
Same problem. All torrents completely stopped working/downloading. My guess is AT&t is blocking torrent downloading.

Re: torrents not working

Posted: Sat May 12, 2018 6:46 am
by Switeck
Eddie, test with a very busy Linux Distro torrent.
I doubt qT&T would block those...

Re: torrents not working

Posted: Sat May 12, 2018 9:39 pm
by Eddie
You were correct. Was not the ISP blocking torrents. I've been using port forwarding from the wireless router for well over a year now. Worked great with no problems. Sometime early this year, it all stopped working without me making any changes to Qbt settings. All torrents stalled/no seeds. Anyway, I started fiddling around with the settings last night and it came back to life after making changes to Windows 10 firewall to allow communications in and out with forwarded Port 59999. Never had to do that before, but all is back to normal. Thankfully!

Re: torrents not working

Posted: Sat May 12, 2018 11:00 pm
by Switeck
Sounds like the fun of being firewalled for no apparent reason -- works ok on really busy public torrents, but often does not on anything else.

Re: torrents not working

Posted: Fri May 18, 2018 3:48 am
by apoulos
[quote="pcboo"]
when i do a search for torrents it shows the size and seeds. i then click to download it and it shows in the transfers as no seeds and 0 size. this happens with all the searches using qbittorrent.
[/quote]

do they by any chance not download?

Re: torrents not working

Posted: Sat May 19, 2018 4:28 am
by Adsixnine
Hi !!

A VPN, proxy, or firewall could be blocking qBitTorrent.

Re: torrents not working

Posted: Sun May 20, 2018 1:27 pm
by bcarney
I had to roll back Window's April 2018 Update to get qbittorrent to work again.  It worked on my Mac, so it wasn't an ISP/router issue.  Once I rolled back 1803 everything returned to normal.