Ktorrent suddenly put all my torrents on pause.

comcastuser · 02-15-2019, 01:46 AM

Nothing changed on ktorrent from yesterday, but suddenly, magically it put all my torrents, from multiple trackers, on pause, and it won't let me un-pause them. There are no torrents with missing files or other problems. No settings were changed.

Any idea what might have caused this?

Edit: none of the other torrent clients on the same machine are having these problems.

trevoratxtal · 02-15-2019, 09:59 AM

Possible line down or ISP blocking.
Try closing the program give it time and check with a browser that your link is working.
If it was a ISP block It may come back.

FlinchX · 02-16-2019, 02:58 AM

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Originally Posted by trevoratxtal

Possible line down or ISP blocking.

Since when is an ISP able to remotely make just a single particular BitTorrent client pause the torrents?

comcastuser · 02-16-2019, 04:22 AM

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Originally Posted by FlinchX

Since when is an ISP able to remotely make just a single particular BitTorrent client pause the torrents?

Yeah that was my first hypothesis and then I realized it couldn't be that. Still trying to figure out what is going wrong.

ehartman · 02-16-2019, 05:10 AM

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Originally Posted by FlinchX

Since when is an ISP able to remotely make just a single particular BitTorrent client pause the torrents?

Different clients could be using different port numbers to do their transfer.
The default often is 54321 and the ISP may be blocking that one.

I know I had to change the port number in my client at some time.

comcastuser · 02-16-2019, 05:33 AM

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Originally Posted by ehartman

Different clients could be using different port numbers to do their transfer.
The default often is 54321 and the ISP may be blocking that one.

I know I had to change the port number in my client at some time.

Tried that, too, that port works on a different machine. And it wouldn't pause if it was being blocked, would it?

hydrurga · 02-16-2019, 05:48 AM

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Originally Posted by FlinchX

Since when is an ISP able to remotely make just a single particular BitTorrent client pause the torrents?

Ah, good old cause and effect.

It is more likely that a single event occurred but that ktorrent handled it differently.

FlinchX · 02-16-2019, 09:20 AM

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Originally Posted by comcastuser

Tried that, too, that port works on a different machine. And it wouldn't pause if it was being blocked, would it?

exactly. any bittorrent client could pause torrents as result of local events. for example the filesystem running out of free space. for network related events that isn't supposed to happen, in case of any kind of blocking the torrent is supposed to stay in running state, just that no data will come to it, for whatever reason