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Re: I seemed to be having problems with ABC
« Reply #15 on: July 14, 2011, 08:32:12 AM »
Please try to download a torrent from this tracker:

http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080/

You don't have to download a complete file; just getting a connection and starting a stable download is good enough to test your network connection.  FreeBSD is a totally free version of UNIX so if your uTorrent client can't connect to this tracker, I would strongly suspect your ISP is blocking torrents.

Getting an ISP upgrade probably won't help because the upgrade usually involves faster speeds and not access to blocked network protocols like BitTorrent.  You can upgrade to a commercial account at a much, much higher cost since those types of accounts usually do not block protocols like BitTorrent.
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Re: I seemed to be having problems with ABC
« Reply #16 on: July 14, 2011, 02:23:17 PM »
Pixelated's suggestion should make it much clearer as to what your problem is.

Post your result as soon as you can (remember, don't wait for the full file to download - you are only testing the connection - you can cancel it as soon as you see if it connects or not - won't do anything to your PC or change anything)
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Re: I seemed to be having problems with ABC
« Reply #17 on: July 16, 2011, 11:23:49 AM »
This is what I am seeing when I clicked the link, (it starting to act out like one of those Rod Sterling plotlines...) :
I land to a 'Opps! (your browser) could not connect to torrents.freebsd.org:8080' Page, with one of two options, to do a google search and the other  to view the page thru a Google cache page.   Any other options?


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Re: I seemed to be having problems with ABC
« Reply #18 on: July 16, 2011, 01:19:01 PM »
 ??? ??? ???
That is very, very odd!  Can you open a command prompt window and run the following command to see if your computer can at least "see" that address?

ping torrents.freebsd.org

This is what I see when I ping that hostname:

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C:\>ping torrents.freebsd.org

Pinging torrents.freebsd.org [69.147.83.59] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 69.147.83.59: bytes=32 time=104ms TTL=56
Reply from 69.147.83.59: bytes=32 time=63ms TTL=56
Reply from 69.147.83.59: bytes=32 time=63ms TTL=56
Reply from 69.147.83.59: bytes=32 time=69ms TTL=56

Ping statistics for 69.147.83.59:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 63ms, Maximum = 104ms, Average = 74ms
You should not lose any packets either when you ping.  If you have 100% loss, I suspect your have a very restrictive firewall or ISP ::).  Or your ISP does not have a good DNS (Domain Name Service) server if the error is that it can't find that hostname's IP address.

Are you connecting to the Internet through a router that has its own firewall?

Try downloading an Ubuntu torrent:
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/alternative-download#bt

If that doesn't work either, did you run uTorrent's Bandwidth and Network test from the uTorrent Setup Guide window when you first installed uTorrent?  You can access that Setup Guide by clicking "Options" in uTorrent's menu bar.
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Re: I seemed to be having problems with ABC
« Reply #19 on: July 16, 2011, 01:21:45 PM »
Not your day is it  ;D
That site is down at the moment. I got it fine when the link was posted but get the same as you today.
It's now back up and running (five minutes later).
Please keep trying.
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Re: I seemed to be having problems with ABC
« Reply #20 on: July 16, 2011, 01:57:13 PM »
Or the site could just be experiencing some temporary downtime :D.
Thanks for confirming that eyore!  I didn't experience that outage since it has been up everytime I've accessed it.
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Re: I seemed to be having problems with ABC
« Reply #21 on: July 16, 2011, 02:12:12 PM »
Sometimes this can be handy
http://www.downornot.com/
the tab "how do we know gives the reason - including if the URL is actually correct or if the site does really exist (in that it says it can't resolve the host).
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Re: I seemed to be having problems with ABC
« Reply #22 on: July 16, 2011, 02:29:35 PM »
Huh.... DownOrNot says the FreeBSD site is down but I can definitely access it through that link I posted.  I reckon the difference in behavior is due to whatever security measures the FreeBSD folks are using for that site.
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Re: I seemed to be having problems with ABC
« Reply #23 on: July 16, 2011, 05:01:40 PM »
It only tries to reach the site from certain random locations.
Looking at the "how do we know" list indicates which ones they use.
I have an odd result when I can access a site fine but others in different parts of the world cannot and it gives the site as "down".
In fact, it says the site is down now but I can connect to it!
http://www.watchmouse.com/en/?m=25070&c=don is the system they use and you can also use this for free and it gives better details.
It's down in Rio, Sydney and Dallas Tx but up in Amsterdam, Hong Kong and New York.
I suppose it depends which servers it has to pass through although I'm not convinced that downornot does this in real time or relies on a cached response.
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Re: I seemed to be having problems with ABC
« Reply #24 on: July 16, 2011, 08:38:31 PM »
Aha!  "How do we know?" is that link in a wee font underneath the URL text entry box.  I missed it the first few times I looked at that page ::).

The quick test on the DownOrNot main page still says torrents.freebsd.org is down.  But If I click on that link to go to the WatchMouse site and run the in-depth ping test from that site, the results show that torrents.freebsd.org is up, with almost all the monitoring stations reporting "Okay".  Makes me wonder if DownOrNot should adjust their test criteria...

Thanks eyore, that WatchMouse site is very useful.
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Re: I seemed to be having problems with ABC
« Reply #25 on: July 16, 2011, 10:16:18 PM »
Do note that you only get a couple of uses per day on that for free (may be 3 or 4). Use wisely.  ;)
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Re: I seemed to be having problems with ABC
« Reply #26 on: July 17, 2011, 12:29:58 AM »
Well, I am now doing the Ubuntu test for BitTorrent and actually, it's working! So, quite possibly, the Torrent I am trying to download is not active. I am going to try a different torrent after it's done.


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Re: I seemed to be having problems with ABC
« Reply #27 on: July 17, 2011, 12:42:29 AM »
Usually comes up in a box on the index page if there are no seeders - nothing there at the moment. Which torrent is it?
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Re: I seemed to be having problems with ABC
« Reply #28 on: July 17, 2011, 01:48:25 AM »
Actually, it's done, I guess there must not be a problem with me or my ISP, I think it might be there aren't enough seeders for the Disneyland Forever Torrent.


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Re: I seemed to be having problems with ABC
« Reply #29 on: July 17, 2011, 02:51:07 AM »
OK, lets take it one step further then.
Does the tracker tab show that it's connected to mousebits? ("working")?
If so,
Do the seeds and peers section show any numbers (in brackets or not). Mousebits show at least 6 seeders (if it shows in brackets, it's downloading but there's nobody to download from at the moment as they are offline - it'll start when someone logs in).
I'm certainly seeding the Disneyland Forever torrent and the WDW forever as well.
There is one peer attempting to download but it only seems to try for a second or two and then goes off (and they have 0%). That may be you!
One seed (online) should be enough to start downloading.
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