Connecting forever with some torrents.

[bbla]

Hi,

im new to torrents and to deluge, so i don't understand this protocol very well. Im trying to use it on the local university here, which probably blocks somethings. I have one file downloading happily at 40kbs, but others stay "connecting" forever. In the status page underneath I get this message:

Alert: Connection reset by peer (HTTP code=-1, times in a row=3)

I tried that same file at another internet connection without blocking, and it shot the roof with over 500kbs per seconds immediately, so it's not a problem of rarity or something.

If it is the uni blocking something,

Why is it not the same for all files?
What could i try to get all files working like the first one?
If i need a proxy for trackers only, which one is a good one?

thanx in advance.

greets

[bbla]

now it says:

Alert: premature end of file (HTTP code=-1, times in a row=8)

[bbla]

It seems that i first need to find some sources on another computer, and then this file will download also on the university. Is there a way i could find those sources directly?

The download speed of this file is now around 20-30k, and yesterdays on another internet connection that does not block, it was immediately 1mb/s. It seems im still missing alot. Also with this file there still is no tracker, and it keeps saying "connecting" and "Anounce sent". With the other file i had before, It shows a tracker and it says "Anounce OK"

Can anybody explain these things a bit? Why is one file behaving different than the other?

greets

[danii]

in the Network section of the preferences try enabling DHT, Peer Exchange and LSD(this one will find your local peers, in your case the ones in the university network) these are supposed to help you get peers when the tracker is down, probably your university's firewall is blocking the trackers you're trying to connect and I guess that's your problem

[johnnyg]

under Preferences->Network, you can use the test active port button to see if the current port deluge is using is actually open.
my guess is that it isn't.
to get deluge fully working you would need to find an open port.

the way bittorrent works is that you have these things called trackers which do exactly that - track.
i.e. they keep track of who's downloading the torrent, when you connect to a tracker you get that list and then can connect to those
other people and download off them (and upload to them).
without the tracker it is still possible to download off people, the problem is working out who
like danii said, enabling DHT, Peer Exchange and Local Peer Discovery will help you find people who are also downloading that file when you cannot connect
to the tracker.
Normally this isn't as good performance wise, however seeing you're on a university network, you could get impressive speeds.

[bbla]

Hi,

thanks for the replies. I tried getting an open port, but that's not going to happen im afraid the firewall they use doesn't allow any port forwarding. Eg. ports 80 or 443 fail too...

I used an http proxy for the tracker section. This resolved the "Connecting" forever problem and peers changed from "13 (13)" to "13 (22)", but it seems i wasn't connecting to any of those extra new sources. So down and upload rates stayed the same.

I suppose putting a proxy on the peers section will make it try to send every up/down data through the proxy? Cause that won't work of course unless i have some premium high bandwith proxy.

thanx..