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So I've got azureus working, and it's showing "green smileys" sometimes, so I know I've got a connection. The problem is that it's not downloading anything. I let my computer sit for like 13 hours, and at the end, there was still nothing downloaded. Am I doing something wrong? The ports I'm using are 16880 and 16881. I am behind a router, but I'm getting the correct color smiley, so there's no NAT problem. Thoughts?
the Azureus site said not to use those ports, because some ISPs intentionally slow traffic on those ports, or close them entirely. I'm using the ports they suggested...
I doesn't matter what ports you are using as long as the are openned in any software or hardware firewalls you are running. I have run azureus on many ports including ports in 50000-60000 range to avoid bandwidth throtling.
Just a thought but what sites are you downloading the torrents from. Sometimes if it requires membership and you haven't uploaded or seeded any files you can't download anything. The same thing happens if you user share ratio is too low. You can find a list of torrent sites and the popularity of them at http://www.torrents.to/
It may have been. It was a new site(I think), so the user base may not have been big enough... So it's probably not my version of azureus, but rather the torrents I was using? Is azureus generally faster than say...limewire?
Last edited by microsoft/linux; 01-12-2006 at 10:18 PM.
ok, I'm still having this problem. I tried a completely different site, and a friend tried the exact same torrent that I used and his started downloading. I changed my ports to the same one's he had, and the same settings he had. I don't know where to go from here, I've got green smileys, and I'm connected to peers, but I'm still not getting any downloads
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