Why do my torrents stop downloading

If you really want to draw doing it manually, you can follow the guides from PortForward. Most torrent clients have built-in encryption.

This lite-weight obfuscation not unbreakable like a VPN is designed to fool simple throttling algorithms. This limits your peer availability and thus your speeds.

This article tackled all the most common causes of slow torrents. Plug your computer directly into your modem and see if that makes a difference. Make sure to leave any questions in the comments below and let us know how these tips worked out for you!

David started torrenting before it was cool. He enjoys hiking, strategy games and eats watermelon year round. He still rocks his Napster t-shirt once a month.

Thank man, I applied the torrent setting you have posted and my utorrent download speed just rocketed. Thanks again. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.

David Barnes. What causes slow torrents? Slow torrent downloads are commonly caused by a few factors. There might also be a media indexer software active in your system, which modifies e.

MP3 files by adding tag information to them. Those files, such as AlbumArt. You will still have the opportunity to manually use the Tagging functions in Windows Media Player to retrieve album art, etc.

One strategy might be to back up the torrent on a different hard drive, and to add the additional media information to the backup copy. That would leave the original torrent file [or folder] free from those additional files, and leaving Vuze to continue sharing smoothly and safely.

Jump to: navigation , search. Category : Troubleshooting. Namespaces Page Discussion. The only solution I've found so far is to shut down uTorrent and start it up again, then it downloads just fine for a while.

Sometimes it takes a long time to shut it down, it just hangs around in the process list. Until I kill it, with a process killer, that aggressively kills processes like on linux. I don't know why it's chewing up memory and hanging. Maybe the problem is with disk caching. Is there a way to remotely restart uTorrent? I mean, other than logging onto the computer with a remote desktop connection.

Download Stops, hangs, only fix is to restart. Start new topic. Recommended Posts. Posted February 2, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options Posted February 20, I want to have my screen sleep while torrents happen in the background while I'm comfy in bed sleeping at night.

It seems so bizarre that Apple didn't think of this I'm surprised there's no solution Any other ideas anyone??? HTC Droid Incredible. Tell us what client you are using.

Your Mac's Specs iMac late There is for sure something wrong somewhere as I do it with downloads and the few torrents I work with all the time while sleeping. Are you sure you have the settings right in System Preferences? Like Eric asked, which torrent client you running? Giantegg Member. Joined Jul 19, Messages 6 Reaction score 0 Points 1.