Hunh, are you spying on me???

Just a hint, maybe because you're bordering the illegal stuff / illegal transactions with Utorrent ?

Checked this morning and I can't pick up any torrents from EZTV or other sites. My downloads are still going on but very slow.

Guess it might be the cable problem, they could be restricting bandwidth.

Just in time for Christmas. Now I need to go shopping and buy Mrs RK a real gift. Bugger! :curse:

oh dear, gave my lad a right bollocking for messing about with utorrent yesterday

I can't connect to Youtube either.

It was a global cable problem after all...
http://www.gulfnews.com/nation/General/10268991.html

Maybe I'm being a bit thick but can someone explain why its uploading normally and why downloading is working through a VPN

Can't answer that, but I am getting some download, just not as much a s normal. Took about 3 hours for one torrent to begin even though there are, supposedly, hundreds of seeds.

Damned annoying.

mine are still all stopped...aagghhhh...

MM, xx

I grabbed 24 series 1 just to see what happens. nothing for 3 hours then I get about 2kbs download. Really slow, but something. have you tried a new torrent?

no, i'll try one now...i've tried stopping and starting again, still no success...and i'm pining for nigella now...

MM, xx

For what it's worth, it was shown on TV here in Holland. Apparently one of the major internet cables connecting the USA / EU with Africa, the Middle East and Asia in the Mediterranean Sea was badly damaged due to either fishing nets or a ships anchor. They expect that somewhere between X-mas and new year the problem will be fixed. Companies and banks have already been informed to expect major connection problems. Maybe they are just filtering out torrents and peer to peer connections at this moment.

Probably the station in Alexandria (from where the broken lines leave) is filtering out outgoing bittorrent packets.

No point in filtering out incoming ones - they've already been through the pipe...

And their filtering won't be able to identify torrent traffic that's encrypted inside a VPN tunnel.

Yeah, what he said. That's what I meant but was trying to keep it less tekni, tachni, techniskool........... complicated!

you got showtime? the cookery channel has changed to 'bbc lifestyle' and still loads of good cooking stuff, I *****in' love the hairy bikers (!), and there's loads of nigella on there, taped the christmas special the other day.