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hmmmnz
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PostPosted: 19:52 - 24 Jan 2015    Post subject: utorrent not connecting to peers Reply with quote
right my win 7 laptop died, so had to buy a new laptop,
of course its got win 8.1, which is better than 8 but still gash,

any way,
since connecting this new laptop up and setting up my rss feed,
it doesnt want to download any torrents,

any clue,
windows firewall has exception, also tryed with firewall off,
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PostPosted: 20:16 - 24 Jan 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
I know it doesn't help, but my similar laptop didn't seem to need anything special doing so I guess not a Windows 8 thing.
Could it be a router setting?
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PostPosted: 21:07 - 24 Jan 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
nah worked well with the router yesterday on win7
i just tried to download something with vuze leap (another torrent client) and it worked fine,
so it must be a utorrent/win8/hp combo
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PostPosted: 21:08 - 24 Jan 2015    Post subject: Re: utorrent not connecting to peers Reply with quote
portforward?
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PostPosted: 08:19 - 25 Jan 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Have you tried the inbuilt connection test?

Its under setup guide, and at the bottom will give you an option to run test.

Report back the results and I'm sure someone can help.
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PostPosted: 12:18 - 25 Jan 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
yep done the test.

all good on both the upload test and the network test,
both come back as a pass,

at the bottom of the torrent window,
it says DHT: waiting to log in
it does this for all the torrents,

as for port forward, im not sure what that even is Very Happy

i tryed down grading to an earlier version of utorrent just to make sure it wasnt an issue with the current version, but didnt help

cheers for the help guys
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PostPosted: 12:44 - 25 Jan 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Make sure you have UPNP enabled on your router, and you have the network type set to "Private" within Windows 8.

this will allow windows to open the port requested by utorrent.

https://i.imgur.com/HTTSWjk.png
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hmmmnz
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PostPosted: 13:52 - 25 Jan 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
CaNsA wrote:
Make sure you have UPNP enabled on your router, and you have the network type set to "Private" within Windows 8.

this will allow windows to open the port requested by utorrent.

https://i.imgur.com/HTTSWjk.png


all those boxes are ticked on utorrent,
had a look on my router (d-link dsl-3680) and couldnt any reference to upnp anywhere in the menus,
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PostPosted: 16:53 - 25 Jan 2015    Post subject: Re: utorrent not connecting to peers Reply with quote
What does it say in the 'tracker status' column.
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PostPosted: 19:45 - 25 Jan 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
hmmmnz wrote:
CaNsA wrote:
Make sure you have UPNP enabled on your router, and you have the network type set to "Private" within Windows 8.

this will allow windows to open the port requested by utorrent.

https://i.imgur.com/HTTSWjk.png


all those boxes are ticked on utorrent,
had a look on my router (d-link dsl-3680) and couldnt any reference to upnp anywhere in the menus,


"Advanced" menus aint that scary
https://screenshots.portforward.com/routers/Dlink/DSL-3680/Advanced_LAN.htm
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hmmmnz
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PostPosted: 20:42 - 25 Jan 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
CaNsA wrote:


"Advanced" menus aint that scary
https://screenshots.portforward.com/routers/Dlink/DSL-3680/Advanced_LAN.htm


oh yeah i had seen that, it was enabled anyway, but i didnt click that it was anything to do with it,

tryed disabling it and re-inabling it just incase. still no change




andy_uk wrote:
What does it say in the 'tracker status' column.


Name Status Update In Seeds Peers Downloaded
[DHT] waiting for announce... 0 0 0
[Local Peer Discovery] working 0 2 0
[Peer Exchange] working 0 0 0
https://fr33dom.h33t.com:3310/announce offline (timed out) 32m 40s 0 0 0
udp://tracker.istole.it:80 Connection timed out. 42m 39s 0 0 0
udp://tracker.istole.it:80 Connection timed out. 41m 48s 0 0 0
udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80 Connection timed out. 40m 41s 0 0 0
udp://tracker.publicbt.com:80 Connection timed out. 32m 42s 0 0 0



fuck 2 years since my first laptop had win 8 and i couldnt live with it,
and its still shit,
might just give up on window 8 again and go back to win 7,
was working fine on the old laptop
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PostPosted: 22:14 - 25 Jan 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
CaNsA wrote:
have the network type set to "Private" within Windows 8.


use google bruv.
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hmmmnz
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PostPosted: 18:41 - 26 Jan 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
it is on private,

fucked if i know,
win 8 is poo
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PostPosted: 18:51 - 26 Jan 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
any crappuy firewalls installed?

norton/mcaffee/zonealarm?
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PostPosted: 20:08 - 26 Jan 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
nope norton is uninstalled, no other virus protection
microsoft firewall is off,
router firewall is off.
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PostPosted: 23:55 - 26 Jan 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
ok i got it working,
uninstalled utorrent,
did a system restore, pre windows update,
re-installed utorrent
worked straight out the box,

cheers guys for the help,
fuck knows what the actual problem was, but its running now,
much good
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