What torrent client should I use?

Kevin4fm

@Aestet OK. The words along the bottom - "General", "Trackers", etc. are tabs. Click any one of them and the bottom part of the window will be come a different panel. As you then click each word, the info in that panel will change. You need to have one of the torrent lines selected though. What shows in that panel is data about the torrent you've selected.

On the left side, under "Trackers", it's showing three errors. Two will be the torrents you've downloaded, and one will be one of the ones you've tried to create.

Can you select one of the two and "Trackers" at the bottom. And tell me what it says in that bottom panel? Or post a shot of it, cos it'll be quite a lot of info, most of which is not strictly relevant.

Aestet

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Aestet

Very sorry for the late response!

Kevin4fm

@Aestet OK. The first problem is that the trackers are showing as "Not working". This means your computer can't talk to the site to get details about the torrent, and who has the files you want.

Go into "Tools" at the top, then "Preferences". This will open up all the settings used to configure qB.

Go to "Connections" and see if (1) is set to TCP/uTP. If not, set it to that. Then make sure the option at (2) is ticked. So long as you've not set up port forwarding up on your VPN, the port number between them shouldn't be relevant, but you can also try changing this by clicking the "Random" button.

Save these settings by clicking "OK" at the bottom, then exit. See if it starts working after a few minutes. That column "Next announce" will tell you how long you nee to wait, but you can also force it by right clicking the line and selecting "Force Reannounce".

If this doesn't start things working, try a few variations of the same. For instance, change "TCP/uTP" to just "TCP" and try again. Try those options, then let me know.

Kevin4fm

Also, what VPN provider do you use? They sometimes have instructions on torrent client settings, so it's worth a look.

One other suggestion, and ONLY for a short time. Try turning your VPN off to see if qB works when it's not forced through there. Do this literally for just a few minutes, so your risk of exposure is very low. It would be worth setting your VPN not to start automatically on system start, then rebooting, before doing this, just to be sure everything is "clean".

Aestet

@Kevin4fm it was already set to those options

Kevin4fm

@Aestet OK. Try it without the VPN for a short while. If it works when not behind the VPN, that's where the problem lies. If it doesn't, it's more fundamental.

Aestet

@Kevin4fm
I will try it out tomorrow, it's getting quite late for me, sorry!

Kevin4fm

@Aestet No problem. It's actually late for me too. I'm GMT+1. You?

Aestet

@Kevin4fm UTC +1

Kevin4fm

@Aestet LOL. OK. Either I'm older than you or more British than you! Why mess about with perfectly good letters!?

Aestet

@Kevin4fm I think you're both older than me, and more British, since I am not British!!

Aestet

Aestet said:

I am not British!!

I actually am not utc+1, but technically we're utc+2, but IDGAF!! I hate the daylight saving thing it's so annoying having to wake up earlier....

Aestet

Anyway, I'm trying without vpn, and now it's working

Kevin4fm

@Aestet Understood. Main thing is we're likely to be awake at similar times as we're in similar timezones.

Any change to your qB status? Or is it as we left it?

Kevin4fm

@Aestet said:

Anyway, I'm trying without vpn, and now it's working

Excellent. That's a step forward. So we know your qB configuration is working, it's just not playing nicely with your VPN. Which provider do you use? Is there a "main" settings screen you could take a screenshot of?

Aestet

It is the same as we left it, except that the helix thing you told me to download is now downloading!

Aestet

@Kevin4fm I use McAfee, the settings page doesn't seem very helpful

Kevin4fm

@Aestet OK. Let me go do a bi of research / familiarisation over at McAfee';s website. BRB.