Torrents + Wireless connection
 

I've been trying all day but I can't seem to get it my laptop to download any kind of torrent. I tried changing ports (Just to see if that would have any effect) and nothing happened. I've even used multiple torrents yet none of them work. Hell, I even turned off my firewall and still nothing changed. I continue to get the same "Connection timed out" error. It's really starting to annoy me. I searched the internet for a solution to my problem and none of them seemed particularly helpful, so I'm just seeing if anyone here knows how to solve my problem.

is it ONLY when you connect by wireless? it's possible that your isp is putting a stop to torrents now. i've seen it happen.

Yeah, it's just the wireless. The desktop works fine.

FWIW - I've got a linksys wireless router at home and my notebook is configed to either be hard wired in or use wireless and utorrent works fine either way, so I don't think it is a wireless thing.

edit: I also use the same client as Shauk - perhaps his idea might help (i.e. try a different torrent client)

I dunno, works for me.

although.... one little snag i've run in to is my wireless driver has a bug which causes a unrecoverable error and brings the entire OS to a halt and does a whole little BSOD memory dump sequence followed by a shutdown) I did some looking around online and it only happens when using certain types of bittorrent clients which allow you to get bombarded by unlimited ip addresses for the most part (the world of warcraft patching client is a good example of a horrible client, because it doesn't allow you to throttle the connection and ties up 100% of your inbound and outbound bandwidth)

so, in short, i'm saying, it could be a problem with your wireless driver moreso than the network and the configuration.
I'm out of luck since intel abandoned the chipset in my laptop because they couldn't fix it. I have to use the physical jack if I want to use certain clients.


utorrent works fine though

My desktop has a wired or wireless connection and I can download torrents with either connection fine.

I know there was some trouble with our router but that was before it was updated... and I know some routers don't like torrenting. Before the router was updated it needed reset every now and then.

So, the torrents and the network settings for torrents might not be the problem.

How do torrents work, exactly?

I didn't figure it out the first four times i tried, then I implemented the Opera browser, which seems to make it possibe for simpletons like myself to download torrents. :)

Not to push it on you, but maybe install the small browser to use with torrents could be your solution? (I have wi-fi as well, seemingly everywhere, so I don't pay)

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/bittorrent.htm

to summarize

download a client, find a site which hosts torrent files, save and open with said client.

After changing ports, did you make sure that you set your router to forward the correct ports to your laptop? Also, check to make sure that your laptop didn't spontaneously grab a new IP address from the router. Sometimes my wireless desktop and laptop trade IP addresses for some reason and I have to adjust settings on the router.

what are you using to d/l torrents, azureus?

Here's what you need to do:

confirm the ip address your machine is assigned for wireless - start, run, cmd, ipconfig /all ..

check your torrent prog for the port it's using. change it if it's the standard 6889. change it to the 25K range

update your router's port forwarding to the ip you determined earlier.

understand that when you switch between wired and wireless, you will have to update your router, unless you're forwarding a range of ports.

I had to change peergaurdian2 to allow the utorrent site to be allowed. It was blocking their site and for some reason screwing my download and upload speeds.

If you want use utorrent and peergaurdian2 (you should use PG2), then use the port testing function and grab the website address and make sure to allow it in PG2.

BTW, I agree that port forwarding is a must! Here is a site that will give a really good description for a variety of routers.

http://portforward.com/routers.htm