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jkeats
2020-03-25, 11:35 PM
I have been torrenting since the shit started and this has never happened. I tried all that I could think of so figured I would ask if anyone with a bit more technical savvy than me could help.

Torrents were working fine forever. Today, all of a sudden I can't connect to any peers to start downloading (or uploading). I use rTorrent Pro on a QNAP TS-453be. Ports are forwarded properly and show as connectable. To trouble shoot, I have tried several trackers, downloaded two alternate clients and tried using my PC instead of the NAS. Same issue on all. I'm lost and having a panic attack because I love grabbing music from this and other communities and contributing with uploads of my collection.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me figure this out.

-JKeats

pawel
2020-03-26, 05:51 AM
Your ISP? Due to situation with COVID more people are online hence ISP may limit the bandwidth for certain ports and type of services, like torrent. However, I saw number of info like this (https://science.slashdot.org/story/20/03/13/2016239/coronavirus-could-force-isps-to-abandon-data-caps-forever) which propose the opposite, to remove any cap on the services.

jkeats
2020-03-26, 09:20 AM
I'm not sure if its my ISP, or maybe some router setting that got reset inadvertently or what. I'm at my wits end on this.