it wont download anything at all. It used to work fine but it just doesnt do anything anymore. The arrow that should be blue instantly turns red and i get no seeds at all. What be the problem. It always worked fine until about 2 days ago

Firewall most likely. I would suggest checking your port settings and if you can't find the issue then i would try a new torrent client and see if the issue continues.

I had this problem aswell, I turned off both my firewalls and it still wont connect..

I am, however, connecting to the internet via a university network, would they have a firewall for the whole network that would be causing this problem?

Yes, universities regulate what can and cannot be used on their network. They have programs that will block certain IP addresses if they use a certain amount of bandwidth.

ill try this. Ill check zone alarms settings it might have reset. But with zone alarm everytime i start my computer i get a popup from zone alarm saying "generic host client is trying to connect to the internet" the accept/deny. So i choose accept and i choose the remember this setting button. Then randomly Ill get the same thing again, so im assuming that my client that im connecting to is frequently resetting or something? or am I just talking out of my ass here?

Hint: utorrent updated to 1.8.1 a few days ago.

This. 1.8 had a bug that did that, dl the latest build.

-F☺rd

Any way to get around this?
At the moment I'm living at home and in my girlfriends university halls but my home PC is running low on HD space so if I want to download big files I would have to use her laptop

already updated it by downloading it off the site. When i tried to do the search for update right from the program it said unable to connect to utorrent update server. And it still sais that. Anyone wanna run me through on what ports to forward/change?

Clean your PC and get more HDD space? There are always ways to get around things but it's not worth the effort. Universities will get on your ass hard if they catch you using torrents for illegal activity.