Im seeding my files and people are leaching just not from me?
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Hi, I created a new upload that that has now been downloaded several times so it has about 10 seeders (it was a 60gb folder so not bad). The problem I have is that I can see people are still leaching the torrent (4) but they are not seeding it from me but the other users who have leached the file from me. As the person who uploaded and created the torrent should I not be the first port of call and these downloaders leach the file from me? I hope what im saying makes sense.
I feel that as the person who went to the trouble of uploading the files should I not be the one other users leach from when im still seeding the file especially as it was me that created the torrent? I am confused as to why this is not happening as what is the point of uploading new content to try in increase you ratio if once a few people have the files any new downloaders get the files from other users increasing their ratio and not mine. Is this normal as it seems a bit unfair.
Thanks
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Peer priority is generally sorted based on the connection speed of the peer. Also, with our tracker, even if you have a faster speed than any of the other peers in the pool, if you are a passive node, you are automatically thrown to the bottom of the priority. To make sure that you are an active node and not a passive node, I would recommend being sure that the correct port in TCP and UDP is forwarded from your router to your computer. This will maximize your potential for upload traffic.
After looking at your profile, it would appear that your Transmission client is using the default port number of 51413, and that your uTorrent is randomized. For optimal results, I suggest forwarding port 51413 from your router to your computer, as well as setting ONE port number in uTorrent and keeping that setting, instead of randomizing it. This way, you can be sure that the correct ports are forwarded through so that you receive as much upload traffic as possible.
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Also - I hope this isn't too obvious - with a 60 GB folder it's very possible some people didn't want all the files. They would show up as leechers, even though they're not downloading anymore.
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Thanks for pointing that out… I didn't think of that until you mentioned it. I took a quick look at the torrent in question and this is definitely NOT the case as the leechers are reporting less than 2% of the torrent downloaded, so I doubt that's the case.
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Many thanks for your reply folks. I have set my router to forward traffic on port 51413 to transmission which is running on a NAS device (Mycloud). Hopefully this will help. Is there anyway I can test this to make sure it is now has an optimum configuration? This was quite complicated but think I have it. I don't really care about uTorrent as only use that if I download stuff to my pc which is quite rare.
My upload speed should be quite high at 20 mb/s so I should in theory be able to upload about 2 megabytes a second.Sorry I posted this is the wrong forum. Please feel free to move it.
Thanks
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I once joined an exclusive private tracker, I had to beg for an invite, and then uploaded a few very rare and sought after television episodes, it was a total of just less than 1g. Immediately after upping the torrent I got a ton of traffic right up until it was fully seeded, then it went down to exactly zero, from that point on my I seeded a total of zero. What happened was after doing the heavy lifting of first of all coming up with the rare file, creating the torrent, the info, etc. and uploading a handful of members with ultrafast connections sat back and collected all the ratio. Now this group is nothing like that shithole of condescending assholes, but I think you still get knocked to the side by the faster connections.
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Forwarding port 51413 in TCP and UDP from your router to the device that is running Transmission alone should solve your problem.
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It seems to have resoled the issue yes, thanks for your help. I am a little confused though as to why I had to do it as my router supports UPNP which I understood would route the traffic where it needed to go. I never had any issues with downloading or on other torrent sites. What is port forwarding doing that UPNP was not? I also had to setup a static IP to do it. Is there any danger or security issues caused by port forwarding? Do most users here just not bother with this? Sorry for all the questions :crazy2:
Thanks
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There isn't any security issue with port forwarding, as long as Transmission is the only thing that listens on that port.
That being said though, there is a potential security hazard to using UPnP, which is why by default, it is disabled on all of my networks. In theory, malware can get in and inject itself into your system with UPnP, thus allowing an intruder to be able to potentially compromise your system through software you may not even know you are infected with.
The down side to UPnP is that it doesn't always work the way it is supposed to, which is why I recommend port forwarding manually. If you forward the ports manually, this ensures that the correct port is always forwarded to your computer.
