November 20th, 2008 by admin

Failed Hash Check

When you get a hash Check failed on a bittorrent client, it means someone has sent you a corrupted or altered piece of data. Torrent clients like uTorrent, Bitcomet will perform hash check on every piece of data that is uploaded from seeders or leechers to your computer. If that piece of data is mismatched, hash check failed occurs.

Do not worry, your torrent client will stop the changed data from being saved to your harddisk. The piece of data will be downloaded again. Therefore, you do not need to restart your torrent or do anything. If you get several failed hash check from the same ip address, it is likely your torrent client will ban that particular ip address to prevent bandwidth and time wasting. Utorrent will ban the ip address that failed 3 hash checks.