Need help w/downloading torrents

[Randomcollegekid5]

Ok, so...I am trying to use torrents because I live on a college campus that blocks P2P programs. I have downloaded utorrent, and upon setup, I tested the port and it appears that any ports needed to use the program are open. My problem is not with the program, but with the fact that I cannot download torrents. Every time I try, the download window for firefox just says starting..., but nothing ever downloads. I have tried plenty of different torrent sources, using the proxy servers rtunnel and hidemyass, and using internet explorer instead of firefox. I have tried downloading directly to utorrent and it doesn't detect any downloads. I have also tried to download and save them directly to my desktop, and the aforementioned "starting..." problem occurs...or 0% in the download window.I know the problem is not the program, because my friend sent me a torrent and had me rename it and do a bunch of stuff and we got utorrent to download it; however, he said he had no idea how I would replicate any of that when downloading torrents from the internet myself. I have tried almost everything...turning my windows firewall off (I use XP), reinstalling java, trying every torrent source on the web (plenty which had many seeds), and attempting to download many different torrents. None of this has worked for me. I also tried installing azureus and I wasn't even able to use it and got some weird error message. If anyone could provide me with insight into this problem (in terms comprehensible to the computer illiterate) and how to fix it, I would be very appreciative.

[metalbmx13]

have you tried downloading anything else thats not a .torrent? if you have problems with downloading anything then it is your connection. if this is not the case, then maybe somehow hte university has blocked the .torrent file extension completely.

[Randomcollegekid5]

I have downloaded PDF files and word docs, which work fine. Is there any way to get around it if the university has blocked that file extension?

[capone2323]

i cant trade?

[RexKrugger]

Most Probably, your college has disallowed downloading of files with .torrent extension. You are better off downloading torrents from sites which provides and alternative download of the .torrent files either in ZIP of as .TXT form.
Demonoid is a tracker ( Mighty Famous , and I luv it ) which allows torrent files to be downed in alternate form. Its down for noe, but should be up and about in no time.
Hope that helps.

PS: you can find quite a few private trackers which does the same.

[Randomcollegekid5]

do you have an invite code, per chance?

[Collector69]

get a seed box and ftp the stuff you DL to your puter

[RexKrugger]

Hi,
I do not have an invite code right now, Demonoid just became online 2 days back. And they are saying that their servers are already overloaded 1000s new visitors. They say they will buy faster hardware . Only after that will they allow new members. Till then no chance of generating invites.

www.fenopy.com will allow you to download the torrent as .ZIP

Try out various other trackers yourself. Zeropaid has a comprehensive list of trackers @
http://www.zeropaid.com/links/bittorrent/index.php?pge=1&id=2&order=

Try and see which allows you download in other forms.

Regards
RK

[RexKrugger]

Also , Torrent-Damage.net allows net downloading torrent file as ZIP.