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sorry guys for reopening such an old post but i just finished my exams and am now ready for the torrent downloading.

im trying to download all LEGAL softwares and games.



well as my title indicates im having problems with torrents, im trying to download a program but all i get is a redlight and no peers connected or something like that, ive also downloaded so many clients i.e utorrent, bittorrent, bittornado, bit commet and what not but every client gives me the same problems i cant connect to peers or a red light, im connected to the internet and the settings and the torrent im downloading isnt old and is popular, so wat am i doing wrong can u plz help me, and what is this about ports cause i have opened them and set them to randomize and

anotherting what are lewchers and seeders.

Hey faraz_k86!

Are you connected through a router?
Have you enabled any kind of firewall on your computer?

It might be that your router isn't able to process your download as it needs to open many ports. You may eventually need to update your router firmware.

Blue

im sorry blue but i dont know what a router is , let me explain more ;

as i have a dial up connection at home so i cannot use that to download 1 or 2 gb files so i use my university computer lab which has a dsl connection .

and i have turned the firewall off, and also I AM USING UTORRENT.

so can u plz tell me the settings for this lab cpu and also for my dial up at home .

thanks a lot man

oh and i just notuced , im posting in a answered thread . sorry about that

Hi faraz!

Well a router is the device that controls a computer network. SO this has nothing to do with your dial-up connection.
But you use the university computer to download the files?

Are you sure they haven't blocked applications like this there?

Blue

thx for ur replies bluefish, yes i am using my university connection due to the fact it has dsl, also i checked firewalls and the system had no firewalls, it only has the windows xp sp2 firewall, i requested to the lab incharge and he logged on as administrator and turned the firewall off for all users, but even then the torrent client cannot connect, what can be wrong?

just for the sake of testing i installed the same software in my home pc, and it was working perfectly even with default settings,

plz help me as as each day goes by i am losing seeders on that file?


p.s. what happened to my signature? y is there a dancing banana, where the "exc" of the excellent used to be?

Ask around at the university , very likely Bittorrent and other p2p apps will be blocked on the university's network.

Small prob with the smillies code , but it should be ok now.