• frozen torrent?

Posted: **Mon Jan 24, 2005 11:18 am**

Hey guys, sorry to pick your brains but the good people here seem to know a lot about torrents. I posted this in a more tech-heavy forum but nobody responded so I gotta bug you as well!

I am trying to download this one TV show from Loki torrent that is mirrored on C-D Heaven and the torrents from both sources lock up after about 20 minutes. Between 18 and 23 minutes in, when I've only gotten like 0.3%, it just freezes without saying it's lost the connection or whatever.

It's been like this for 2 days, no change. I get a green light using Tornado so I know it's not a firewall thing, it just seems to freeze up after the same period of time, EVERY time.

Any ideas whats up??? Thanks a bunch!!

Posted: **Mon Jan 24, 2005 6:26 pm**

One suggestion that worked for me using Bittorrents was to lower the amount of connections (other peers) to you to something below 40-50. For some reason particular connnections through your ISP will cause the program to stall.

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Posted: **Tue Jan 25, 2005 11:12 am**

That could definitely work...it's a really popular torrent, I was connected to like 65 peers last time before it stalled.

I just looked around Tornado's options (advanced, details, etc) but I don't see anything specifically mentioning number of connections. Does it have something to do with the "finish allocation" button? That sounds like it might mean stop picking up more peers.

Posted: **Tue Jan 25, 2005 11:16 am**

Wait...never mind. I just found it in Prefs > Advanced. THANKS! I saw the details thing saying "if the client freezes, set this to 60 or below" so I set it to 30 and I'll let you know if it worked.

20 minutes, and it hasn't frozen...BUT...like I said, I set it to 30 max and it says connected to 32 peers and 8 seeds. Hmm...

Posted: **Tue Jan 25, 2005 11:45 am**

Glad it worked. Try adjusting that number to see how high you can go before it hangs. The more peers you have connected to you can make your torrent go faster. So you definately want to take full advantage of that.

High

Posted: **Tue Jan 25, 2005 2:05 pm**

Right...I set it to 50, but I'm not going to bother going any higher than that. I really appreciate the help, it's been rolling for 2h50 with no sign of freezing!! I had another torrent that froze not long ago, this is going to be a great help in the future!!