Why does my torrent not download

Worked great. Some ancients say that true knowledge comes only via some suffering. This was my case - my windows has crashed, and I installed it with my HP recovering system - it worked excellent. I got my newest windows with no upgrades need after recovery, I installed my Norton and all my staff, and everything was fine, except uTorrent. I was unable neither install it nor download torrent files from Internet - only torrent files, other files were OK. Neither advice about Firewall not helped me, I tried some other torrent clients - same, until I found advice about qBittorrent client.

My Norton let it in, and let it be on allowed firewall list controlled by Norton. By the way, I found some articles about pirate torrents problems, which some author rights corp. So, it seems better to get a right torrent client, which will pass Antivirus and spam protection and allowed with Firewall, than try to overcome your computer protection to install questionable clients. I made a video demonstrating how to run torrents anonymously. It will work even if torrents are banned by your ISP.

I think the best one right now is filestream. Though it gives you only 1GB per torrent still its enough ,it downloads super-fast and has no blocking or throttling. Also like a URL, this means that if the location of the file is not active on the internet, the data can't be downloaded. While there are many places to find TORRENT files, most are used to spread copyrighted movies, music, and games, which is considered illegal in many countries.

Fortunately, there are also free and absolutely legal alternatives where you can watch TV shows online, stream movies online, download music, find audiobooks, and download PC games. Take great care when downloading software, music, or anything else through torrents.

Since you're most likely taking files from people you don't know, you always run the risk of there being malware included with the data. It's important to have an antivirus program installed to catch anything potentially dangerous. If you're on an Android device, you can use the Flud or uTorrent app. Online torrent sites like Filestream and ZBIGZ download the torrent data for you on their own servers and then give you the files to download directly through your web browser like you would a normal, non-torrent file.

Downloading torrents online with Put. I would try asking the question in one of the Windows forums. Don't even think about trying to use a torrent on a school wireless network; you may end up getting expelled. What is it that you are trying to download? McHenryB :. I can understand perfectly what Skittle was saying; he answered as if you were running Linux - not unreasonable as you posted in the Linux forum.

Yes I assume you were running Linux. Same sort of requirements apply to windows though: If for some reason the HDD is not mounted think a removable drive that has been "safely removed" then you cannot write to it. Also if for some reason the torrent clients or your user do not have write permission on the drive.

Or a myriad of other reasons. To expand on blocking torrent traffic, traditionally it is very hard because many traffic are encrypted so packet detection algorithms do not work well. The only reliable method is to block by default all ports other than 43 and 80 for normal web traffic but this still does not stop someone from using torrent over port 43 and 80 and has other undesirable consequences.

So I think the problem is unlikely that it is your internet connection. Be careful playing with the firewall rules if you don't understand exactly what each one is doing and what the associated ports are assigned to. Otherwise you are likely to open your router, and possibly your network, to every hacker who happens to drop by. Similar threads Question No torrents downloading Torrenting slow download speeds, very high upload speeds.

Hello Experts, I have downloaded the latest torrent file on my laptop and checked all issues including firewalls bla bla still Solved! Torrent not downloading Torrent Clients are not adding my files to download!

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This will speed up all your network communications and may help with the downloads. The Internet Explorer cache is set to a very high value. A reasonable value is somewhere between 10 and MB. A much higher value will cause the system to slow down over time, and can affect browsing and downloading in particular. I don't thing this happened to the original poster of the thread, but it may be the case for others. To change the settings, click on the cog icon in IE and choose Internet options, then change the setting as shown in the screenshot below.

I would like to say thank you, Oron. You're comment about downloads being too fast for the computer got me thinking.

I was having the same problem, but only when I was using a torrent client. I went in and put a limit on the download speed and have not had any problems since. Once again, thank you. I am having the same problem. Windows 7 SP1 on a desktop. Download of any file freezes part way through or never starts.

Bizarre as I can send and receive large emails so not a network problem - just a problem for downloads. Have also tried various browsers without any change. Si if you can turn them off or uninstall and try to download files.

Just saw something similar to this one yesterday. Check your proxy settings. In most cases, it should be set to auto-detect your settings. Manual settings can cause this behavior if set improperly. I would not recommend unisntalling your security software as suggested by ha14, but temporarily disabling a 3rd party software to test a single download is less risky and can eliminate said firewall as being the problem.

I have also seen similar behavior on a machine that had 2 on-demand antivirus scanners actively running on the box. I'm not entirely sure where the cause of this problem originates but it must be in a system component common to all internet use. More than likely a cache-like component that Windows uses when it accesses the internet. I believe that the TEMP directory and the internet cache are used to interact with downloaded content and might cause the issue.

Some browsers appear to use a cache outside of the IE cache, whereas others place everything in the IE cache. In theory, a corrupted download may somehow interfere with new download attempts of the same file.

However, this is not something I'm an expert on - and it's only a theory at this point. This is a hail Mary: Try using CCleaner to clean the system's temp and cache files. Then reattempt the download.