06-22-2008, 09:04 PM

Nothing I can do lets me DL a torrent.
I've tried port forwarding on my router, huge ranges, UPnP, everything.
I'm starting to suspect my ISP.

If plugged into my router, it always says the port is closed. I open the port, same.

I'f plugged directly to the internet, it gives me the same error. I always show 0 peers, and it will never, ever, ever, start to connect. It's not a "going too slowly" thing, it just plain won't connect at all...

Normally it isn't an issue, but sometimes I see cool stuff that's actually legal, and I want it, and I can't. Any ideas?

06-22-2008, 09:09 PM

What torrent client are you using?

06-22-2008, 09:13 PM

Transmission is my go-to. It reports a Port Closed. Tomato reports as being unable to connect to the tracker. I'm currently d/ling the official to test it.

Here's a few details that were asked for in a thread I made on my main forum (car forum, but who knows

My ISP is a small local highspeed one. Changing ISPs isn't an option.

I'm using the Linksys BEFSR41 V3. Four port wired router.
Forwarding isn't set up in the Program (Transmission) I can basically give it a port , and it'll try whatever I give it.

Using Mac OS 10.5

Firewall is normally enabled, disabled temporarily.

Also, I have tried multiple clients, no change. They all report 0 peers.

06-22-2008, 09:16 PM

have you tried a different torrent file? It may just be dead. Or try a different torrent client.

If that doesn't work try downloading torrents with Opera (optional)

06-22-2008, 09:16 PM

I had issues with those 2 clients here using AT&T DSL. I went with Azureus. Works great on this end. They just changed the name but it's basically the same.

http://azureus.sourceforge.net/

06-23-2008, 12:19 AM

Your ISP might be throttling torrents. I find my school does this by looking at the headers on the packets of information and blocks all connections to trackers (not to peers). So, I found I could start a torrent at my house and get a list of peers, then go to my school and download the torrents.

I then found that I could change the header information on the packets of info, thereby getting around my school's blocking method - meaning I could then start torrents while on my school's network and be able to connect to the tracker. Unfortunately for you, I do all of that on a Vista laptop, so I don't know if the program is available for OSX. The program I use is proxomitron, and you set it up to modify the headers of the output to something like firefox, etc. You then set up your torrent client to connect through a proxy server located at 127.0.0.1 (your own computer, because the program proxomitron acts as a proxy server running on your computer).