Re: Lost ability to download torrents!

ollyk · ‎01-05-2022

Just uploaded from a bthub5, to the latest Halo 3. Everything was fine, but suddenly I have been unable to download torrents at a reasonable speed!

Halo3 seems to set port forwarding automatically (clever), I have re-installed qbittorrent, but when I do connect to peers I am getting maybe 1k at best, when before I was getting full speed!

I have checked if my ports are open, they are not, but they never have appeared as open before.

So I have checked the hub, windows firewall, settings in qbittorrent. How on earth do you actually determine where the problem is?

Thanks.

NigelB72 · ‎01-05-2022

Given that Torrents are mainly used for piracy, I doubt you'll get much help on an official BT help forum. You'll probably be better off asking on the Torrent forums.

gg30340 · ‎01-05-2022

Torrents can be used for piracy but there are also many legal and legitimate uses and there is no reason that anybody who uses torrents can not seek help on this forum if they are a BT Broadband customer.

-Richie- · ‎02-05-2022

Try downloading the latest release of Ubuntu, it's 100% legal and always maxes my connections out.
The BitTorrent version is available Here

Les-Gibson · ‎03-05-2022

Perhaps BT Web Protect is slowing down your connection?

ollyk · ‎05-05-2022

Nope! Just as dire!

ollyk · ‎05-05-2022

I just had to look up web protect! I do everything manually and as long as it doesn't load up in the router itself then I am not aware of its presence! (and would be quite annoyed if it was installed on my system!)

gg30340 · ‎05-05-2022

BT Web Protect is not installed on your system. It works at a network level not a local level.

You can check if it is activated by logging onto your MyBT the going to "Your Security" > "BT Web Protect".

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ollyk · ‎05-05-2022

I think that has done it! Port still not showing as open, but I am seeing sane downloads again 🙂 Thank you!

gg30340 · ‎05-05-2022

@ollyk wrote:

I think that has done it! Port still not showing as open, but I am seeing sane downloads again 🙂 Thank you!

Just to clarify..... what has done it? It's not clear what you are referring to.