Torrents not downloading

nooshka

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Please someone give us a hand, i've got both Vuze and Utorrent trying to download torrents for me but at the moment its only downloading at about 0.1kb/s, i'm not very good on computers so any advice would need to be very basic sorry.
 
Really or are you just winding me up, as my girlfriend has got her computer here and its working fine on that.

Do you have a particularly anal firewall that's blocking these things? Have you changed any security settings recently that might cause this not to work? Do you have a router?

If you have a router and your girlfriend is using it yet her torrents are fine then it's a problem with the setup on your machine.
 
Do you have a particularly anal firewall that's blocking these things? Have you changed any security settings recently that might cause this not to work? Do you have a router?

If you have a router and your girlfriend is using it yet her torrents are fine then it's a problem with the setup on your machine.

I've just got it back but i haven't changed anything i don't think last night it seemed fine and i downloaded 40ish% of a movie. Is there anyway you can give us a step by step guide of getting it to work again?
 
Sounds like your port that your Torrent client is using is blocked
 
Sounds like your port that your Torrent client is using is blocked

This.

Try going into your firewall and finding out if it's forwarding to your machine correctly. Having said that, do you use µTorrent? If so, try going into connection settings in preferences and selectung UPnP and the other type of port mapping. That might sort your troubles.
 
Sounds like you have a router blocking a port, try to find some port forwarding software. I fixed mine a while back, no memory of how though. Have you put this in the PC Problems thread?

Its not easy to open a port.
 
This.

Try going into your firewall and finding out if it's forwarding to your machine correctly. Having said that, do you use µTorrent? If so, try going into connection settings in preferences and selectung UPnP and the other type of port mapping. That might sort your troubles.

How do i do this? Sorry but i am rubbish on computers.
 
Well, try doing the µTorrent fix I suggested first, just open the program and go into preferences.

Right got onto that and but it already had a tick next to 'Enable uPnP port mapping' and 'Enable Nat-PMP port mapping', but its still doing nothing.
 
Bollocks to it i'm just gonna take it round a mates house in the morning to get it fixed.

Thanks for your help though.
 
Found the problem it was Norton then this morning it wouldn't even let me connect to the internet so i deleted it.

Only problem now is when i try and install avg it says i should delete norton first but i thought that i already did that?
 
You are unhappy because you can't download a torrent? You should be happy, but I fear you are sick.
 
Found the problem it was Norton then this morning it wouldn't even let me connect to the internet so i deleted it.

Only problem now is when i try and install avg it says i should delete norton first but i thought that i already did that?

Norton keeps files on your system even after you uninstall them, if you go to their website you can get a "Norton ghost killer" or something, this will remove all the files in a few moments, p.s go for avast instead.