How to tell if a torrent is downloading

No downloading torrents movies etc. What router do you have? Are you both connecting at the same speed ie: both using I suggest blocking all ports except web browser ports. This way when she complains you know its because of download! Also, check to see if any of the QoS Quality of Service settings have been altered to give higher priority to her machine, or to download-type activities.

Shyster1 , Jul 15, No, this is the thread where unhelpful people such as you and I jump in and ridicule other posters When the user starts 3 weeks later the same torrent download then utorrent could at first in advance check the new hash value with the set of old hash values and popup a warning "torrent already downloaded" or similar.

So this should be possible in general. I don't think they will implement that as that would make it more system resource intensive for users of large torrent files. Just imagine it laboring to search your drives to find those files before downloading assuming they didn't move or change name.

How would it locate them then. I think for free or paid as it is there are trade-offs here. How to let uTorrent detect downloads which are already finished in past?

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