Yeah, I got the same problem, and manual update tracker in the context menu doesn't help either. It just keeps timeing out.
The only solution I found was to restart deluge. After that it workes for a few hours...

Edit: Somebody already reported it http://dev.deluge-torrent.org/ticket/1320

Hi, I'm having a strange problem. If I pause all my torrents and then resume it, it's like no real new connections are created, and download/upload speed is slow (waited ~5minutes no effect, tried to update tracker, still no effect). If I restart the daemon suddenly everything is fine. This also hap...

btw, you can connect with the gtk interface to a remote host to control torrents as far as I know. Haven't tried it though.

Hi, I'm not sure how to do it with webui . There aren't many examples around , but I will look into that later this week.

Hi,

I'm using 1.2.3 version. Here is a plugin I wrote for this.
It just shows per session + optionally total traffic.
Hope it works, enjoy