Also when a phone call knocks you off you might be running into a bug we didn't yet manage to track down (I'm searching it's source for years, now).

Sometimes Phex doesn't start any new download connections.

You can make that less pressing by increasing the amount of connections it may use for downloads (options->downloads). I regularly use 99 overall and 66 per download.

Should all downloads stall anyway, the way I found was to shut down Phex and start it again. It's not nice, but it works.

If you want to avoid the restart (only Phex, not your computer), you can try to stop the downloads and start them again.


For restarting downloads after a restarting Phex, the tipps from Peerless are the right ones.

Additionally you can just click the search button on the download pane (after selecting the download).

One reason why some hosts disappear is that some are behind push-proxies (necessary to get through firewalls), and when you restart phex these push-proxies are no longer valid. In that case only searching for new sources can work.

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