Temporary problem??? Torrent download refuses to work
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2020 12:11 pm
I'm in Sweden, I use Windows 10 1909 and several bittorrent clients.
I use the Mullvad VPN to hide.
Usually I can download torrents with reasonable speed.
However, some days, like today, none of the torrent magnet downloads I start even get beyond the metadata download stage.
This is not specific to qbittorrent, ALL bittorrent clients refuse to work.
So far, torrent services have resumed after anything from several hours to a few days.
I have tried qbittorrent, uTorrent, uTorrent Web and Transmission in various forms.
Is there some global attack on all torrent use that sometimes kicks in? Is it something in my local W10 PC??
Please suggest some way to investigate!
P.S. I've tried some legal torrents w/o Mullvad VPN, but that doesn't work either.
I use the Mullvad VPN to hide.
Usually I can download torrents with reasonable speed.
However, some days, like today, none of the torrent magnet downloads I start even get beyond the metadata download stage.
This is not specific to qbittorrent, ALL bittorrent clients refuse to work.
So far, torrent services have resumed after anything from several hours to a few days.
I have tried qbittorrent, uTorrent, uTorrent Web and Transmission in various forms.
Is there some global attack on all torrent use that sometimes kicks in? Is it something in my local W10 PC??
Please suggest some way to investigate!
P.S. I've tried some legal torrents w/o Mullvad VPN, but that doesn't work either.