Strange problems with azureus

[Hemonox]

First of all, I've been downloading stuff with Azureus configured the way it is for several months now so I'm pretty sure it's set up correctly. Now then, the problem is that a few days ago it started downloading and uploading slow. It now downloads in bursts of 1.5 KB/s and will sometimes, but very rarely, go over 1.5 by a little bit. I didn't mess with any settings and my internet connection hasn't changed in any way so what could've happened to screw everything up?

[nukehella]

Is the health symbol green?

[wonderboy2005]

We need more information.

1) what type of connection do you have?

2) is it 'always on'?

3) are you behind a router?

4) do you have a firewall?

5) what Operating system are you running?


answer those questions and we might be able to help you better.

[Hemonox]

I have a satellite connection that is always on. I'm not behind a router. I have Sygate personal firewall but it has never conflicted with Azureus before, and I'm running winXP SP2. Again: this setup worked fine a few days ago.

[wonderboy2005]

1) make sure that windows firewall is not on. Windows has a nasty habbit of turning it on when you dont need it.

2) if that isn't the problem, try turning your firewall off temporarily, then trying BT. If that fixes the problem, your firewall needs to be reconfigured.

3) If neither of the above works, try changing ports in Azureus. Don't forget to configure your firewall for this change.

If none of the above work, then somthing has likely changed externally. (ie your ISP has changed somthing, in which case, youll have to work that out with them)

[Hemonox]

I opened ports 6881-6889 in my firewall. It seems to have increased the upload speeds a little bit, but it still only downloads in brief burts of 1.5 KB/s. I've tried all the ports in azureus, some of them make the health turn yellow but that's about it.

[Hemonox]

Now it's getting up to 3 KB/s download. Maybe I just need to let it upload some more.

[joelogic]

For the love of God, finally someone has the same problem I'm having. I thought I was alone.

I have to computers, one running windows XP sp2 and a ibook (mac) running osx.

BOTH computers only download in 1.5 quick bursts for returning to 0. RARELY I get a quick 3.0, but then its back down. I've bypassed the router completely, taken every step listed in the sticky, complained with the cable company and had them replace my modem completley (to a different brand altogether), but it hasn't fixed the problem. I'm almost convinced its my ISP, but I've changed my port number for Azureus numerous times.

I'm at my wits end, and sorely pissed off. If anyone has ANY help or knowledge in this area, or has had it happened and overcame the problem, PLEASE share.

JL

[cjules13]

What about other clients dudes? Do they act the same too?

[Hemonox]

Hmm... I'll try some others but I doubt that's the problem. We'll see.

[Hemonox]

ABC will upload but doesn't download. Bittornado and the Experimental client both have problems connecting to peers.

[ourthing2]

I opened ports 6881-6889 in my firewall. It seems to have increased the upload speeds a little bit, but it still only downloads in brief burts of 1.5 KB/s. I've tried all the ports in azureus, some of them make the health turn yellow but that's about it.
unless the health turns green it sounds like router/firewall issues then

[Hemonox]

The health is green and this firewall hasn't interfered with Azureus before. It's the same problem that joelogic described a couple posts up.

[ourthing2]

edit: the creative commons tracker is down, link removed...

how many seeds does your torrent have?

[Hemonox]

I had 6 seeds connected a while ago, but now it's down to 3 and the health is blue because there was a timeout error while trying to connect to the tracker. I think it's worth mentioning that Firefox started getting a lot of timeouts at about the same time that Azureus started having issues. It wouldn't surprise me if they're both symptoms of the same problem. Regular FTP downloads still go fast so I don't think my bandwidth has been limited.
EDIT: now it's back up to 5 seeds.

[ourthing2]

find a torrent with at least 50 seeds, and more seeders then peers, to see if the problem is on your end. (like the newest naruto ep)
when there aren't many seeds they will send data in spurts

[Hemonox]

I found a torrent for a South Park episode with 47 seeds. After only 1 seed connected it started downloading at ~40KB/s. So I guess the torrent I'm trying to download (Cowboy Bebop) doesn't have enough seeds. Disappointing.

[earthsfate]

I have something similiar, my downloads jumps to like 30-40kb/s and then it dips down to 0kb/s

azureus 2.2
health is green
winxp sp2
di-624

[russ333]

i had the same problem. i went into command prompt and typed" ipconfig /all" and put the dns server ip addresse in an advanced rule in sygate. After weeks of max 20kBs i now download at 80 kBs

[Hemonox]

I'm away from my computer right now, but I'll give that a try when I can.

[Hemonox]

Well, I just found a different torrent and now it's downloading a lot faster, ~40 kB/s. Joy.

[Hemonox]

After my restarting my computer, this new torrent (with 37 seeds, 6 of which are connected) is now downloading in bursts of 1.5 kB/s again. Earlier it was getting 40 kB/s while my firewall was running. The health is green and the tracker isn't timing out. This was downloading fine less than 12 hours ago. What could have happened to screw it up?

[ourthing2]

if you have WinXP SP2
patch your tcpip.sys with the patch from http://www.lvllord.de

[Hemonox]

Tried that patch. I'm still just getting bursts of 1.5 kB/s, occasionally 3 kB/s.

[Excrement_Cranium]

I don't know about all that. I try to seed to a minimum of a 3:1 ratio, and most of the time, my seeds only run 1~3 Kbps... with a 768Kbps upload running a max of 3 seeds at a time, I would expect better speeds. Dl's are good and clean. I think AOL dialup fucktards have invaded bittorrent....

[Hemonox]

Right, but it was downloading fine on Wednesday and after my computer got restarted it's downloading slow now. How could restarting my computer mess this up? What could've gotten reset or changed on startup?

[Greylin]

You reconnected to the tracker and have probably connected to slower peers or ones who either have multiple torrents they are uploading or have throttled their upload speed.

[Hemonox]

Can I do anything about it, or am I screwed?

[Hemonox]

^^ Well? Does anyone have an answer?

[Hemonox]

b-b-b-bump!

[SamJam]

I noticed some of the same similar problems using Azureus late last night before I went to bed. I just left it on thinking it would work itself out. It was doing the same when I got up, my connection was really crappy and I noticed a security alert from Sygate:

**Denial of Service "Smurf" attack detected.
Description:
A Smurf attack occurs when a hacker spoofs your system's IP address and then broadcasts a ping request to several subnets. The resulting deluge of ping responses ties up your system as well as the various network subnets pinged.**

All of these attacks were hitting the port I have set in Azureus.... not sure if this could be your problem, but I think it was mine. Once I Unplugged my SBC portal for a while and got a different IP, everything was fine.

[Hemonox]

I'm pretty sure I'm not getting a DoS attack. I don't what the deal is. This set up was working fine. This torrent has 45 seeds right now with 8 connected. My firewall can't be the problem since it was downloading at >40kB/s with it on. Grrr... WTF? I'm getting pissed!

[Greylin]

In essence your screwed if you are connected to people who throttle their bandwith or are seeding multiple torrents. I suggest trying to sign up for one of the "private" bt sites and find a torrent w/ a sh!tload of seeds and see how you setup works. Then if you still get crappy speeds start troubleshooting. Rule out things one by one on your end. I know that Malicious Intent wrote a good guide on the subject so look for it. If it seems to be client related and you are unwilling to try another client then start perusing the Azureus website or their irc channel. There are a lot of helpful people on both. Have patience or just move on.

[Hemonox]

seeing as I may have to just give this up, what are some other good ways to download anime besides bittorrent and newsgroups (which don't seem to have Cowboy Bebop). I've tried edonkey but it's just impossibly slow.

EDIT: I just tried downloading a Naruto episode with ~1000 seeds. The fact that it downloaded at all was an improvement over the occasional 1.5 kB/s I get with my CB torrent. However the highest it got was only about 10 kB/s which is troubling considering the popularity of the file. I'll try letting it download a little longer to see if anything changes.

[Greylin]

Since you have a slow upload speed that might hinder your download speed. People might be snubbing you because of you inability to upload fast enough. Bittorrent was not really made for dial-up.

[SamJam]

Since you have a slow upload speed that might hinder your download speed. People might be snubbing you because of you inability to upload fast enough. Bittorrent was not really made for dial-up.

I usually have my upload for Azueus at about 25K/s, with no more or less than 5 seeding (counting the files I am DLing) and I have never had a big problem DLing. I get 50-60K/s or more DL speed on most.

What I posted about the DOS attack earlier, it may have had nothing to do with Azureus, just a possibility. I recall pissing someone off on another forum that same night, and that may, or may not have been the problem. :cross

[Hemonox]

I have satellite not dialup. However I do have to limit my upload speed to keep my ISP from getting mad. But I've used bittorrent for probably about 8 months and downloads worked just fine, despite my slow uploading, until now. I don't suppose anyone knows another way I could download all 26 eps of Cowboy Bebop.

[nightshadow]

You say all this trouble started after a reboot?
Hum, you don't happen to have autoupdate on do you?
Might be the result of another wonderful microsoft patch or another update.

[cpugeniusmv]

You say all this trouble started after a reboot?
Hum, you don't happen to have autoupdate on do you?
Might be the result of another wonderful microsoft patch or another update.
Leave autoupdate on, or visit Windows Update every month. They are important.

There was a recent patch that updated tcpip.sys. You would have to reapply that "fix" (http://lvllord.de/) if you had applied it previously.

[cjules13]

Ok cpu, you're the one person I'm gonna trust on this. I think that "fix" at lvllord.de is not needed at all. People got their undies in a bunch when they read SP2 limits its connections to 10, I looked deeper and found that it only limits to 10 connections/per second, not total. So why would anyone need that "fix"?

Do you really need to make more than 10conn/sec? I've been running full blast with BT and SP2 without a single issue without ever applying that "fix".

[cpugeniusmv]

Ok cpu, you're the one person I'm gonna trust on this. I think that "fix" at lvllord.de is not needed at all. People got their undies in a bunch when they read SP2 limits its connections to 10, I looked deeper and found that it only limits to 10 connections/per second, not total. So why would anyone need that "fix"?

Do you really need to make more than 10conn/sec? I've been running full blast with BT and SP2 without a single issue without ever applying that "fix".
I know it's not necessary, and you're exactly right about what the limit does.

But Bittorrent does exceed that 10 new connections per second limit from time to time.

It's a small problem, for sure. Certainly not as big a deal as everyone makes it out to be.

[Hemonox]

I was having the problem for a while. I then found a different torrent and everything was fine. My computer got restarted and the new torrent started having the same problem.

[ourthing2]

did your PC change your LAN IP? and now the incoming connections aren't being forwarded to the correct LAN IP?

in azureus' details>peers tab do you see L and R in the T column? (L means outbound connection R means incoming connection) if they're all L then it may be a firewall/router issue

[Greylin]

I have satellite not dialup. However I do have to limit my upload speed to keep my ISP from getting mad.

Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't satellite use dialup for the upload and actual satellite feed for download. which would aready severely impact the max speed at which you could download not to mention the fact that you say you throttle that.

1) Have you checked any of your log files from event viewer to see if there were any additions to the log file around the time you started to experience the problem.

2) Do you have Systerm Restore turned on if so....You could possibly try restoring from a point when you did not have/experience the problem.

3) Makes sure that the ICF is shut off.

[Hemonox]

I'm getting both inbound and outbound connections.
1) If you mean firewall logs then yes I've checked them but nothing severe shows up. AFAIK I haven't been hacked or anything.
2) I think I'll try that. System Restore has saved my butt a few times in the past.
3) If you mean the windows firewall then yes, it's off.

[ourthing2]

well bittorrent has built in leech protection, so if you aren't uploading much, don't expect too download much, unless there is alot more seeders then peers

[Hemonox]

Right, but I've downloaded tons of stuff with bittorrent before and never had any problems. This is the first time it's done this.

[legendsofaranna]

some files with lots of seeds doesn't download
example: virtuafem
don't know why that happens

[Hemonox]

Alright, with that south park torrent you posted (and removed I guess) I've been getting ~5kB/s average which isn't good but is still better than the Bebop torrent was getting. There are about 40 seeds connected. Also, the health icon is staying yellow but only with this particular torrent; it was always green with the Bebop torrent. I'm considering swithcing to eDonkey since I don't seem to be getting anywhere with this. Would this be a good idea or not?

[Hemonox]

GAH! Now the Bebop torrent is downloading fast again for no good reason. I just happened to check Azureus and now it's getting about 20-30 kB/s. I didn't mess with anything so I wish I knew why it's working all of a sudden.

[jcphoenix]

Hey,

I've been having a similar problem...I've also been downloading the Bebop discs and they've been frustrating going from 0 kb/s for the longest time sometimes with spurts of 30 kb/s etc...it's weird. But I was able to download other highly shared files fine (Veronica Mars Ep 20)

However, today, I downloaded the new version of Azureus and now I'm having problems all across the board. All the downloads are green, but and sometimes I connect to peers and seeds, but it won't download or if it does, it downloads at like 2 kb/s for 5 seconds. The port I've left open is fine too, as I've also tested it using the new option in Azureus and it says it's okay (and I had left the same port open before anyway + the downloads are green)...

It connects to a few seeders/peers but not as many seeders as I would expect either. And yes, I've tested it with three downloads, two highly shared and a new Cowboy Bebop disc (#6) (which is not sharing at all):

ie:
24 4x20: SEEDS: 9/7024 PEERS: 15/5698 DOWNSP: O kb/s UPSP: 0 kb/s TOTAL DOWNLOADED: 0/349.3MB
Cowboy Bebop: SEEDS: 0(1) PEERS: 3/3 DOWNSP: 0 kb/s UPSP: 0 kb/s TOTAL DOWNLOADED: 69.2MB/3.8 GB
Veronica Mars 1x21: SEEDS: 1/27 PEERS: 35/2417 DOWNSP: 0 kb/s UPSP: 0 kb/s TOTAL DOWNLOADED: 23.5 kB/349.8MB

[Hemonox]

oh yeah, it's not working again. My comp didn't get reset this time. I was away for a couple days and left Azureus running the whole time. It must've stopped working while I left because it's back to it's 1.5 kB/s thing. :sigh:

[Sparky9]

try upgrading your java to build 1.50_3 (uninstall your old version first)

[Hemonox]

and now it's working sporadically. It's going anywhere from 5 kB/s to >30 kB/s. If it keeps this up it'll finish downloading in a day or two. However, I don't think bittorrent is going to be a viable way for me to get anime anymore. What are some good alternatives? eDonkey? mIRC?

[legendsofaranna]

try upgrading your java to build 1.50_3 (uninstall your old version first)
What if I don't uninstall the old version first?

[Sparky9]

you might have conflict, also people that are firewalled should remember to allow permissions for the new java.exe and javaw.exe, as they're located in a different folder then older java build

[cpugeniusmv]

What if I don't uninstall the old version first?
It'll just leave the old version on your hard disk, but use the new version.

[Timick]

Well I noticed the same problem running Azureus 2.2 on my system with Java1.5_update2 installed. So I believe this problem somehow is attached to incompatibility between your version of Azureus and JavaRuntime version. I have two version of Azureus - 2.2 and 2.3 installed on my system and 2.3 is working just fine for me, whereas Az2.2 download speed is 0-1.5-3.1.
Btw, Sparky9, where did you find Java Runtime 1.50_3, there is only developer version with update 3?

[Sparky9]

Btw, Sparky9, where did you find Java Runtime 1.50_3, there is only developer version with update 3?
http://azureus.sourceforge.net/torrents/

[Akalon]

I having a similar problem, and I have no clue what to do. I'll try to outline as much I can about the problem so someone may be able to help me.

-Windows XP Pro SP2
-Azureus 2.3.0.0
-All torrents have green status
-The download speed for all downloads rarely go above 0 B/s and on occasion when it does, it reaches a max of 1.5 kb/s but then quickly drops back to zero.
-All the downloads have the infinity symbol for their ETA.
-I have many peers in the my torrents' swarm (in one case 936), however I'm never connected to any (it's always on 0). Whenever it actualy does go above 0, it quickly returns to 0. Same with uploads.
-Upon disabling Windows Firewall all my downloads came to life, and I thought I had fixed the problem. Shortly after, every single download went back to 0 B/s and also red status
-I've had this problem for about 3 days, and I have no idea what suddenly caused it.
-I've downloaded the patch http://www.lvllord.de/ that someone in this thread suggested.
-I've left Azureus running for over 10 hours at a time but nothing still happens.

EDIT: Fixed the problem by downloading the new Java 2 platform. If anyone is having a similar problem, it may be the solution.
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp

[smounche]

HELP!!
MY Azureus WONT EVEN START!!
I RUN THE PROGRAM AND NOTHING HAPPEND,
I DID LIKE TOLD IN http://azureus.sourceforge.net/2300/updateinfo.php
THE PROGRAM JUST WONT OPEN!!
EVERYTHING STARTED WHEN ITRYED TO UPDATE MY PREVIOUS VERSION..
PLEASE HELP ME..

[cpugeniusmv]

HELP!!
MY Azureus WONT EVEN START!!
I RUN THE PROGRAM AND NOTHING HAPPEND,
I DID LIKE TOLD IN http://azureus.sourceforge.net/2300/updateinfo.php
THE PROGRAM JUST WONT OPEN!!
EVERYTHING STARTED WHEN ITRYED TO UPDATE MY PREVIOUS VERSION..
PLEASE HELP ME..
Please don't type in all caps.

Have you tried uninstalling/reinstalling Azureus? Java? Do you have the latest version (1.5_03) of Java? The latest version (2.3.0.2) of Azureus?

[browolf]

i have a strange problem. since reinstalling windows i cant get speeds past 70k/s when i have a max download of around 200k/s, which i used to get regularly. even on well seeded torrents. looking on the details of the torrent i can see i rarely have individual connections over 10kb/s. i have azureus 2.3.0.2 and java 1.5.3
the only major system difference is i have sp2 now. i've tried that tcpip.sys patch but it isnt making any difference. as far as i can see i have the same settings in azureus that i had before.
any ideas?