HI all
I am downloading a file that is 4Gb. It was downloading really fast at 400kb/s but when it reached 98.5% it suddenly started to download at 0Kb/s. And now it is stuck on 98.5%. Ive tried downloading it twice but the problem still happens.
Please help as I would really like this file. 
Are there any seeds on the .torrent? And see how many there are? You can also look at the health of the .torrent.
some torrents do this. i’ve had many that did it. i always just figured they were fakes. if you look at your list of peers, you’ll probably see that no one else has anymore than 98.5% either. pretty suspicious when this happens, so i guess they’re fakes.
Driscoll: It’s not a fake, it’s just the uploader/seeder that has been too lazy to upload/seed the file 100%. If the torrent is preatty new, just wait. Maybe the uploader will come back, and seed the last 2%. 
It’s quite likely a fake, they do exist and are spreading, especially for recent popular movies. It’s dumb, a sort of dog-in-the-manger disruption of P2P, but I guess it’s our turn now. Kazaa/Gnutella has a lot of these, and even eDonkey has quite a few.
Check the comment thread or the forum for the site where you got the torrent, to keep abreast of things like this.
But still, kluelos, it’s not a fake. It’s just a person that hasen’t uploaded the file 100% to any leechers. You can call it a fake torrent, but actually the completed file is not a fake.
Try again. A lot of dummy files are appearing for download. They’re usually in .zip or .rar files so you can’t see the actual files. And a lot of the time you can’t compleate the download.