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Okay, thanks for your help and having this issue looked into.

FYI, I left the torrent running overnight on both my laptop (using the same router via wifi, running Vista SP2 and using μTorrent 1.8.2) and my desktop computer running BitComet. The torrent in BC is at 2.0% complete and is showing 0 seeds and 19 peers. The same torrent downloading in μTorrent is currently at 6.4% and is connected to 2 seeds and 3 peers (with the :80 ports still intact in the Task Properties). Both μTorrent and BitComet have been portforwarded correctly. Clearly, it's just a slow torrent, but μTorrent seems to be doing a little better.

You mentioned that some trackers require I use a specific port - would changing my listen port in BC settings to the port specified by a particular tracker (whether it be 80 or 6969 or whatever) speed up the torrent/connection to that tracker?

My apologies - I really should know better...

BitComet 1.13

OS: Windows XP SP3

router: THOMSON TG585v7 (wired)

The torrent where I first noticed this anomaly (don't judge me!):

http://www.monova.org/details.php?id=1530595&ref=

Trackers "inside" the torrent (as listed on Monova.org):

http://vip.tracker.thepiratebay.org:80/announce

http://tracker.bittorrent.am/announce

http://tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce

http://open.tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce

http://tracker.thepiratebay.org:80/announce

http://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce

Additional tracker listed on torrentz.com:

http://91.191.138.2:80/announce

Actual list of trackers from the torrent Task Properties in BitComet:

http://vip.tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce

http://tracker.bittorrent.am/announce

http://tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce

http://open.tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce

http://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce

As you can see, 2 of the trackers are not listed in the torrent in BitComet. I tried downloading the same torrent in μTorrent, and *all* of the trackers (including the one added manually from torrentz.com) appear and are working.

FWIW, I uninstalled BC 1.13 and reinstalled version 1.09, and had the same problem.

I just noticed that the trackers in the BC Task Properties dropped the ":80" found in two of the Pirate Bay trackers, essentially making the trackers http://tracker.thepiratebay.org:80/announce

and

http://tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce

"identical", and thus, I suppose, cancelling one out. I then tried removing the ":80" suffix from the http://91.191.138.2:80/announce tracker, and it finally saved in the BC Task Properties, and now appears to be working (logged in, returning 7 seeds). So I guess I just found my own workaround? ;)