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Offline Tannosuke

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Searching peers...
« on: January 12, 2014, 03:01:52 PM »
Hello, guys...

It's my first time seeing this issue.

I just imported only 7 anime series and OVAs I want to download and see, however, they're NOT downloading at all. The status is still at "Searching peers...".

Can someone give me some solutions to it?

Thanks
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Offline Bob2004

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Re: Searching peers...
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2014, 03:24:22 PM »
You haven't given any useful information about what your problem actually is, so I'm just going to take a random guess and assume you're using some recent version of utorrent. If you want to know why your torrents aren't downloading, select one of your torrents and look in the bottom half of the screen, under the trackers tab. In the tracker status column, next to the BBT tracker, it will tell you what the error is.

You'll have to tell us what that says if you want any kind of useful advice on how to solve the problem. Telling us what program you're actually trying to use might, just possibly, also be helpful.

Offline Tannosuke

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Re: Searching peers...
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2014, 10:02:04 PM »
I'm using the up-to-date uTorrent. I don't see any trackers at all. And it's applied to all torrents.
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Re: Searching peers...
« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2014, 10:07:26 PM »
The up-to-date uTorrent (3.3.2) isn't whitelisted.

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Re: Searching peers...
« Reply #4 on: January 13, 2014, 06:09:18 PM »
BakaBT uses not only a "blacklist",  which lists clients that will never be considered for use, but a "whitelilst", which lists clients currently approved for use.   It's an increasingly common feature of private trackers, or semiprivate, as in BakaBT's case.

To make a long story VERY short, recent versions of uTorrent (3.x.x) have encountered various glaring issues, so any new release takes at least two week to be approved.  In the case of the most recent update, the usual crop of bugs plus unrelenting squee-weeing by uTorrent 3.3.2 fanbois/gurls has pretty much put the kibosh on the approval of at least the most recent version of uTorrent, and quite possibly all new versions to come, at least for a long while.  It is what it is, so don't bother complaining, if you were thinking of it; not only will it NOT work, but doing so is liable to net you a 30-day warning.  Yes, it got that bad :o :-\ .  Just read some of the threads on this subforum and its parent, although the worst has been deleted.

If you would like to continue to use uTorrent, "downgrade" to an older version (most users here prefer 1.8.5 or 2.2.1, but anything prior to 3.3.2 will work) and turn off automatic updates immediately.  Otherwise, you should try one of the other clients in the whitelist.  I haven't tried it myself - I use uTorrent 2.2.1 - but a lot of folks around here recommend qBittorrent.  You'll find, by the way, that both uTorrent 1.8.5 and 2.2.1 tend to have better seeding and/or leeching performance than 3.x.x, while using less system resources.
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Offline Tannosuke

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Re: Searching peers...
« Reply #5 on: January 16, 2014, 05:54:23 AM »
I see... Thanks for the help, guys. Will try to downgrade it back to the suggested v.1.8.5 Bozobub said.
« Last Edit: January 16, 2014, 05:59:54 AM by Tannosuke »
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Re: Searching peers...
« Reply #6 on: January 16, 2014, 06:57:59 AM »
Well, I personally suggest you use 2.2.1, actually, although 1.8.5 is another viable choice, if you prefer.  There are a few features in 2.2.1 not present in 1.8.5, but the primary one is UDP tracker support.  Conversely, however, 1.8.5 is pretty much the last version truly deserving the appellation of "microTorrent"...

Offline Tannosuke

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Re: Searching peers...
« Reply #7 on: January 23, 2014, 09:03:01 PM »
I chose the v.1.8.5. It's stable and I'm fine as it is. I also deactivated the auto-update system. Now my mind is at peace.
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