I have lots of torrents available to seed yet no peers are connecting. Help
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I am not sure if this is normal but I have all these torrents of files I downloaded here and none of them seem to be seeding to any peers. Is this normal? It's really messing up my ratio and I fear that I will get to a point where I can't download anything anymore because I'm not uploading enough :afr:
I already contacted site administrators (who told me to come here) I made sure proper ports are open (I don't have a problem seeding public torrents), I used different software to seed torrents (I use Transmission now on OSX.. the latest cat, I think) and nothing. Some torrents are showing as having dead trackers, others are coming up as unregistered torrent pass but the majority are showing as fine yet 0 peers and obviously no seeding at all.
I mean if I were sharing one or two, then fine, I must be into some fringe stuff that no one wants :crazy2: but I have many. Do I need to reprioritize them? Do I have to many?
Any advice on fixes would be much appreciated. :hug2:
Thank you.
PS: I've also googled the crap outta this.
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I can't really help you with the problem itself, I can't see the state of whichever torrents you have open.
I can reassure you that you are a long way from not being able to download.
Your current ratio is way above the minimum required for the amount you have already downloaded and even if you dropped below the minimum you would have some weeks to catch up. And finally you have enough seed points to 'buy' 60GB of upload if things don't improve
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I just checked your account and cannon is totally correct in his assessment of your account standing ~ you are far from being in trouble.
However, you are not currently seeding anything at all. In your situation, provided their are no issues with connectivity, the best thing to do is seed 24/7 if possible. You have many torrents that you are the sole seed for that torrent. I promoted 4 of those torrents to the top of the upload list to help give you some activity in uploading I hope.But you must be seeding for this to happen!!!
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Certainly you were ask to ask support in the forum, because of the specific settings in Transmission on Mac to ensure correct setup of it.
Nevertheless, here some points:
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Please try to seed for a while 24/7 and tell us you do so. Currently our tracker doesn't see any torrent connected
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You mention the tracker error message "unregistered torrent pass", the good news is, that means your Transmission can connect to the tracker and gets that message back. That message means your personal secrete passkey isn't valid or present in the tracker announce URL. The announce URL should look like http://tracker.gaytorrent.ru:2710/HereYouRPasskey/announce , the ".ru" can be ."tw", both work. The "HereYourPasskey" is a long series of letters and numbers, you find it in your Profile when clicking on your name in "Welcome back, …". Do not publish it! Sorry, i don't know how to change a passkey in Transmission on Mac if it is wrong. Re-downloading the .torrent file and adding it into Transmission may work, but attention not to download the data (movies) again. Wrong or no passkey would explain why torrents don't show up on the site and have no activity.
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Above message must not be confused with "unregistered torrent" (without "pass"). That error message means a torrent has been removed from the tracker and GayTorrent.ru's torrent list. You could consider uploading it again yourself, but check the rules and for duplicate first. If Duplicate, it might be possible to reseed the existing torrent
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Being able to seed on public trackers doesn't mean necessary that your connectivity setting is correct. On those trackers many people don't care to seed and therefore even seeder with bad connectivity get their chance to seed. However here there is no general lack of seeder (effect of Rationator 3.0) and leecher prefer seeder with good connectivity. Sorry, can't tell you how to test connectivity with Transmission for Mac
So maybe some members here could help to explain how to change a tracker announce URL of a loaded torrent and test connectivity on Transmission for Mac?
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I have some questions about seeding. I was a download hog recently so my ratio is crap at the moment, and getting back to a positive ratio sooner rather than later would be good.
Earlier today I was seeding a file to someone at 300+kB/s. He got over 500MB from me. Then nothing seeded for an hour. My user details page shows people are leeching some of the files I have available, but I'm not actually uploading anything to anyone. Later I was uploading 4 or 5 different files to various people, then after that another period of nothing. Am I doing something wrong or is seeding normally random like that?
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Yes, it can be that random. It depends on a lot of factors, the other seeds, the leeches and their available free bandwidth as well on your free available bandwidth and priority settings in the torrent client programme.
The different torrent clients negociate directly between each other about upload / download pieces.
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In addition to Popper's answer, you need to consider that you can't see what's going on with the torrent clients of the other people showing as leachers on the torrent. Many torrent clients limit the total number of connections based on bandwidth. If a user has 20 torrents queued to download, it's likely their client is only actively downloading 4 - 10 at any given time. The clients also try to prioritize the torrents. Often on a FIFO basis, first in - first out. So if they currently have 5 torrents actively downloading with 25 connections total, the first one or two of their torrents may be using the majority of the connections. They may also be throttling their download speed during business hours to keep their ISP from slapping their hands. If you are able to upload at 500k, but they've got their bandwidth throttled to 20k, you're not going to go any faster than that. Also, torrent clients like uTorrent use swarms. There may be 20 leechers trying to get the files you are uploading, but if you aren't in the same swarm, you won't connect.
Oh, and one more thing you can consider if you see your ratio dip too low. Donate to the site. As a thank you, you receive upload credit. Your ratio can be fixed in less than a day.
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Thanks guys, very informative. I have 2 more questions. My torrent client started without the external drive I have the videos connected, so I had to manually restart all my seeds. The seeds seemed to go from queued to seeding in a completely random order different from alphabetical or the order I started them. What determines the order in which the seeds become active? I do not keep non GT.ru torrents active much past a 1:1 ratio but how many GT.ru torrents should I keep seeding? All? Only a few? The most recent 250 as listed on my user details page?
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The question regarding priority a torrent client programme gives is something better asked and answered by that torrent clients support.
There are many parameters which can influence that. Vuze/Azureus got many user options, but it is a science on it's own. µTorrent/BitTorrent is mostly a black box, you can only give higher priority by the target ratio setting.
How many torrents you keep started, is up to you. I'd say it depends on your share ratio, your wish to share more and your hard drive space(s).
How many torrents you should set active depends mostly on your internet access upload speed. You should at very least have 10KBytes/s free for each of the allowed active uploading torrents.
