downloading 4gb more then the file size!

[nawal]

i got a problem with nyan koi doki torrent and alot others , this one is 4GB , and i downloaded around 8GB already and its still at 8%
even after a hash-check

i have this problem for alot of torrents here

is this normal ? , or my ABC 3.1 has problems ? , same thing happened to my laptop utorrent

i downloaded 4gb extra for this torrent alone ! , another torrent which is 500mb and i d/l 2.4GB
is this a prank or somthing ? so i get bad ratio ?

incorrect stats on my client and BT site

[blubart]

there are some possible explanations for such stats:
- you handed out your private key or a torrent containing your private key to someone else
- your ISP or a program on your pc is interfering with the connection causing constant hashfails

in any case it's not normal.

[hanayome]

blubart is right. You probably gave out a torrent file of Nyan Koi to your friend. When he downloaded an extra 4GB from his computer, you got that bonus added to your stats. 4GB from your PC + 4GB from his PC = 8GB total. And since you had it on many torrents, it would make more sense if you gave your passkey itself, rather than a single torrent file. Isn't this the second thread recently with this kind of problem?

Solution: Go to your settings page and generate a new key. All your old torrents will become invalid immediately, so you will have to re-download your torrents. Wait about 10-20 minutes to be sure the tracker has recorded your key change before resuming your torrenting.

[nawal]

there is no chance any one got my key , unless they gona d/l exactly what i want at same day and d/l same time

100% sure no one got my key

what i mean by over downloading is in my pc itself , i only checked BT stats last day and it matched the over download thing on my pc

iam stuck at like 8% and downloading speed 400k for month , it will reach 80%+ , then re-hash and back to 8% and start again

i have this in alot of BT torrents

[nawal]

ok ill try to say it in another way

i download a torrent it will finish 100% , after i open the video it will not be full some pix problem and sound
and will skip 10 or even full video min , which mean the file is not fully downloaded

so i rehash and check and it will go down to 80-99% again , and so i start downloading again , and so on ..... till the end of time

but some time it will be 100% for real , some time never

[Blanchimont]

ok ill try to say it in another way

i download a torrent it will finish 100% , after i open the video it will not be full some pix problem and sound
and will skip 10 or even full video min, which mean the file is not fully downloaded

so i rehash and check and it will go down to 80-99% again , and so i start downloading again , and so on ..... till the end of time

but some time it will be 100% for real , some time never

Are you absolutely sure your drive isn't dying? ... Does your client (ABC) give any error messages? Try to download to an external/other drive to see if the problem persists even then...

[Freedom Kira]

You mentioned this is also happening on your laptop running uTorrent. Does this mean you are running ABC on a different computer?

If both computers are on the same network, try taking your laptop and heading to a wireless hotspot or different network and download a torrent from there, and see if you get the same problem. If you don't, chances are your ISP or something on your network is messing with your torrent data (which would mean you are probably also sending bad data), and forcing encryption may help. I'm not sure if ABC has this feature, but uTorrent definitely does. It might also be something on your computer, but it would have to somehow be on both computers. If you want to check, borrow a friend's laptop and start up a torrent on it, but to be safe, don't log in to the BBT site.

Just to check, is this happening with torrents you get from other sites?

[nawal]

will it may be my HDD , coz its on USB

i changed to save on  SATA drive now and will see how it will go

no erros from any client tho

Edit: this is not a new problem , i had this in BT from a long long time
but i never reach over 2gb extra d/l >.>

[daveLovesIt]

I was gonna suggest a HDD problem too.

You could have ran a disk checking utilty, I would have done so ages ago with these symptoms. But trying a different drive as you are now amounts to the same thing.

Kira's tests are good for checking your router/route/computers don't have something funny going on.

no erros from any client tho

If you mean the hash errors are not in line with your extra download then that might rule out the ISP thing. And, if it was a stolen key issue, that would in way explain the corrupted files.

[Freedom Kira]

The disk being external makes little difference. If the drive is failing, the drive is failing, and the symptoms will be the same whether it is internal or external. Just saying that because I don't think you should avoid external hard drives for torrenting forever just because of this one incident.

If it turns out there are no problems on your internal drive, you might want to run a disk checker on your external, because I doubt any SMART status reported by the external drive ever makes it to the screen so you wouldn't be able to tell otherwise.