Anyone having any problems with torrents?

[LukeBird]

As per title, I'm getting nowt
Was using Azureus earlier and getting nothing, so switched ports a couple of times (ISP have been savvy to thrashed up/download in the past) and still nothing.
Using transmission now (on the port it picked) and still nothing.

[The_Jackal]

Sounds like a local problem or change torrent trackers.
Or maybe your ISP is getting clever? Who are you with?

[rsv gone!]

Not with Nildram, are you? My brother was having all sorts of problems getting connected last night.

No probs with ID Net, though. I already have much of USA Thursday's TV.

[_daveR]

Its been a mixed bag of recent. Some stuff running faster than ever (I NEVER see over 100kb/s ) like 150-200kb/s and some stuff trickling through.

After the demise of TorrentSpy recently thanks to the FBI(!!) it is only going to get worse from here.

[LukeBird]

ISP is Tiscali.
I tried a couple of torrents a few weeks back and had the same thing, (on the same d/load) but figured it was just tracker problems etc.
Damned annoying though.
I'm surprised it's not working at all though, usually they'll just cap the rates to prevent the upload being thrashed.

[simba1]

With Tiscali as well and downloading some software now. It works but speed is low (36 kb/s) even though i'm on up to 8 mb/s.

[LukeBird]

simba1 said:

With Tiscali as well and downloading some software now. It works but speed is low (36 kb/s) even though i'm on up to 8 mb/s.

I'm on an 8mb line as well, which is near as dammit what I get, so there is something odd going on!

[xiphias]

Try port 80.

[LukeBird]

I'll have a play with the ports in transmission and see if that makes any difference.
Very strange though...