Torrent Woes

[Zimm the Elder]

I've just isolated a problem that's been frustrating me for months in which the culprit is KTorrent...every time I start it up, it locks the net for about five minutes before causing the router reset (posted on KDE-Forums under my alter ego, Colorado Z). As an alternative, I've tried Azureus, which worked well under the MS system...unfortunately, it opens, and then immediately closes with no indication that it's running in the background. It just plain won't stay up. I've uninstalled and reinstalled and no change.

Any suggestions? Bit Torrents used to download quite well until Feisty (which is well named, BTW).

[Detonate]

Re: Torrent Woes

I noticed that todays updates included an update to ktorrent. Did that make any difference?

[davidlondon]

Re: Torrent Woes

Hi,

Ok, do you have a firewall running on the router or in kubuntu (like guarddog)? What port & udp port are you using in settings (they should be the same)?

[TedNig]

Re: Torrent Woes

Ktorrent has 3 ports you need to configure on your router. Also, cap the upload speed to 11k, download speed to 256k, max connections and such just 1/2 them. I had the same problem and this helped. I also went to Ktorrent's site and got the latest and greatest, all doing aok.

Am downloading 3 torrents as I type this.

[Zimm the Elder]

Re: Torrent Woes

Thanks for the advice...I am using the newest KTorrent stuff, but nothing has changed. I do suspect the port setting...tried to set to torify the tracker (port 9050) and suspect that may have hosed things. What ports do I have to set in the router? I don't have any firewall running on the PC...the forums convince me that they really aren't necessary, but perhaps the router is blocking things.

[TedNig]

Re: Torrent Woes

Here is a couple of screen shots I took on how mine is setup. Tell me the name/model of your router, and I can tell you how to forward the proper ports.