Bit Torrent problems...

[iTim387]

Whenever I leave my computer for several hours with a bit torrent client running, it is totally locked up when I come back. I have to restart to get access. My friend also expierenced this problem, but it stopped doing this spontaneously one day so he doesn't really know how to fix it. If anyone has any suggestions, please comment.

[kryyst]

First things first make sure you have the latest version.

Second thing how much free hard drive space do you have? I've had this happen to me when I was down under 2 gigs free.

[iTim387]

I have like 90 gigs free and I have the latest version of ABC.

[drowd]

thats a fairly common problem. its cuz its opening too many ports. you want to put it at about 60, if your client wont let you, you need to get one that will.

info:
http://bittornado.com/faq.html <-- at the very top, second bullet, thats with his client though, so you need to poke around abc, although abc is based off the bittornado/shadow's client . . .

[iTim387]

OK, I have tried that and it hasn't helped at all.

[jellybino]

OK, I have tried that and it hasn't helped at all.


Maybe it's ABC...I had problems with that myself. Try uninstalling it and just using the bittorrent client itself. You might have to uninstall bittorrent altogether and reinstall to get rid of it.

[werocool]

I've gotten tired of bittorent problems since i'm on campus, so i'm using torrentonline.com http based torrent downloader, I get better speed and no port problems, it's a bit costy but it's worth it.

[kryyst]

shit man $10 a month and only 1 torrent at a time, brutal. You are paying someone else to dl illegal stuff that's just crazy.

[kanezfan]

i use azureus, i've never had a problem like you describe. i wouldn't pay someone to download things for me.