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Lincoln-Imp
04-01-2004, 07:42 PM
ive downloaded 10% of an album and i had to disconnect for abiy so i closed the download and then i reopened it later it goes back to 10% and says its connecting but then a box comes up saying "Problem connecting to tracker - <urlopen error (10060, &#39;Operation timed out&#39;)>. What does this mean?

KaRlSeN
04-01-2004, 08:58 PM
it mean that you can&#39;t see how many users having the file is online... your download should continue anyway

ilw
04-01-2004, 11:03 PM
I think it means the tracker is unreachable or down (or the torrent is no longer being distributed) , personally i don&#39;t think your download will continue until it reconnects to the tracker. If it doesn&#39;t continue, then check the homepage associated with the tracker for more info, or just keep trying occasionally (if the torrent hasn&#39;t been removed then it will reconnect at some point).

oldjagman
04-03-2004, 01:43 AM
Your Bittorrent client should poll the client every 2 minutes or so. This should eventually reconnect you. If it doesn&#39;t then, as stated in the above posts, the tracker is down/dead.

If you are using the original client I suggest you convert to Azureus or ABC as they are both better at maintaining a connection and provide much more (reassuring?) status info.

Frater_Frag
04-03-2004, 10:58 PM
Use Torrentstorm, that way you dont get this crap about urlopen tracker etc&#33;

aoyv73
04-04-2004, 04:52 PM
Burst is ok shows seeds and leeches