Torrent stuck at downloading

They all have the same problem as long as the proxy is turned on. Start new topic. Recommended Posts. RandmTask Posted December 4, Posted December 4, Hi Quite frequently I get stuck on 'Downloading Metadata' for certain torrents, whilst at the same time others download just fine. I have the same problem with version 4. On three popular torrents with over reported seeds, I was stuck at "downloading metadata" for an hour with no peers or seeds found. I downloaded Deluge onto the same system and set up my proxy info exactly as I have it in qBittorrent, and it started downloading all torrents immediately.

The log doesn't reveal anything interesting as far as I can see; just routine actions such as "torrent added. I'm on 4. I suddenly can't seem to get any to start downloading.

Yea no I will just close this, it was a issue. Skip to content. Star New issue. Jump to bottom. Copy link. It shows many seeds and peers but it is not fetching the torrent file. Both uTorrent and Tixati is able to download the torrent file. Which qbt version and OS are you using? I do not use ipfilter. Can you update to v3. How are you connected to the internet? I am willing to try it. The longer you wait, the less likely I can reproduce the bug. At this point, the people going "this is an upstream issue" need to actually think about what's going on I remember I used to use it on windows as my main torrent downloader, but moved away from it ages ago and couldn't remember why I did, but figured that whatever made me want to move away must have been fixed by now Check your rate limits.

If your rate limits for upload are set to 0, then change them to something reasonable. After doing this, everything immediately started downloading, and all the stalled downloads restarted. Now though, I'm not sure if this is what they're referring to as an 'upstream issue', as I was under the impression that when they kept saying 'upstream issue' they were talking about the code being uploaded to the PPA and thus being what gets 'downloaded' to the community Although, with all this said, I do seem to still have an issue with a single download, as the download speed is unusually slow compared to everything else I'm not sure if this is just because out of all the files I've tested, this one happens to be the 'newest' as it was just uploaded today I was having the same problem here, but as you commented before about changing ports I looked for on qb and found the option to use a different port every time it initializes and it worked for me!

Hope it was helpful! I just got this problem again, and i notice this warning at the bottom of the window. But i click and goes to the Connection Tab but i don't know what to change there. It's hard to fix a bug that no one within the team is able to replicate and also seems to affect users upstream too.

Just thought I'd add: I'm using qBittorrent-nox 4. Enabling "Use Random Port on Startup" fixed my issues. Also drastically improved my speeds which is a plus. I did not have to adjust my rate limits; they are still set to 0. This isn't Docker-specific anyway. The client or the underlying lib is pretty pathetic. I'm sticking with 4.

Sometimes I'll restart it after a download completes if the remaining ones are still "downloading metadata. No torrents download, hence not really usable. I am also on windows 10, not docker. Going to lock this issue for now as it's obvious that the problem is upstream. If this does ever get fixed upstream and needs repairing in our container, please open a new issue. Skip to content. Star New issue. Jump to bottom. Copy link.

Hey, When adding new magnet torrents via webui they get stuck in "downloading metadata".. Many users will prefer to use a virtual private network VPN to bypass ISP restrictions or to maintain their anonymity while downloading or sharing BitTorrent files.

Check with your VPN provider and, if it does offer BitTorrent-friendly servers, make sure to connect to these when using uTorrent to download or share your files.

If uTorrent is not connecting to peers, it might be worth looking at alternative BitTorrent clients to see if the problem is with the software and not with the file. To lower the risks, you should consider scanning for malware on your Windows PC on a regular basis. Ben Stockton is a freelance technology writer based in the United Kingdom. In a past life, Ben was a college lecturer in the UK, training teens and adults.

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