UTV Clicksilver - Filesharing Problems...

omelette

HI. Don't know if this is the appropriate area to post this but here goes anyway! Anyone else experiencing problems with eMule, Bittorrent or eDonkey? I can leave my computer connected for days with absolutely no problems. Start up the aforementioned progs though and after a while the connection registers zero bytes being uploaded or downloaded. Close the connection, re-connect and all is fine again for a varying amount of time. It's driving me nuts! I still manage to d/l stuff but not without this dis-connecting, re-connecting routine and the constant monitoring of things that is required. Is UTV deliberately doing this as a 'dis-incentive' or am I just paranoid? One other filesharing prog (still) works perfectly & the problem occurs with Win98, Win2k & winXP. While writing this with Bittorrent running I've had to dis-connect, re-connect twice... HELP!

cgarvey

Moved to Net/Comms ..

Kristok

Have you a firewall ?!? if so id be looking there for the answer to your problem. Do a complete uninstall and see if that helps then install again if it works fine without the firewall. Cant think of any other reason that would cause a problem like that.

omelette

Hi. Yes I use Zonealarm but the problem persists whether or not it's running. I think I'll uninstall it completely just in case it is the problem - these programs worked fine with it in the past though and WinMX works perfectly with it running. It's actually kinda comforting to think it's just a problem with my setup, rather than than ITV filtering content............

tomk

Don't know about eMule or Edonkey, but you need to limit your upload bandwidth with BitTorrent, otherwise your upload gets swamped, which then prevents your download packets from being acknowledged, so that dries up too.

How you limit your upload will depend on the BT client you're using. From my experience, UTV are definitely not blocking torrents.

Psygnosis

I had the same problem it was to do with the connection timming out though you could check this

Neil_Sedaka

AFAIK Zonealarm will not work with Bittorrent!

stereo_steve

I'm with UTV - bog standard package and my torrents are working flawlessly. The problem seems to be your computer

Kristok

Come to think of it tomk made a good point you have to limit your upload in emule or your just be uploading and max your connection out. If its zone alarm your using then uninstall it its a terrible program id rather just use the microsoft firewall.

PiE

Try using a router instead of the USB modem if you're not already; it used to drive my laptop crazy.

Valentia

Neil_Sedaka wrote:

AFAIK Zonealarm will not work with Bittorrent!

Not true, it works perfectly.

Neil_Sedaka wrote:

If its zone alarm your using then uninstall it its a terrible program

Hmm. Version 4 is ok. There was a problem with early versions of 5 but the latest incarnation is great. I've used it for years without any problems. As for using Windows Firewall instead....ok I haven't time to list the reasons why this would be lunacy.