Seeding complete torrents
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Since I joined here, this keep happening. I just finished a torrent and while downloading the upload was high but after downloading, it just stop. Sometimes he goes to 0.3kb's. The only way for me to Seed is uploading my own torrents. Why is that happening to me? Has this happen to anyone else here???
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Since I joined here, this keep happening. I just finished a torrent and while downloading the upload was high but after downloading, it just stop. Sometimes he goes to 0.3kb's. The only way for me to Seed is uploading my own torrents. Why is that happening to me? Has this happen to anyone else here???
One possible reason is that you are part of a large swarm of downloaders who complete the download at about the same time with a lot of sharing between them. Then there is only an occasional downloader who is downloading from the many seeders so you only provide a relatively small contribution. This happens a lot with new torrents.
Even when I am the initial seeder of a file, I sometimes only upload 100% or a bit over that to multiple downloaders combined and then new downloaders' clients prefer the other seeders. That's just the way it works out sometimes because of the nature of torrenting. The trackers and clients are very efficient.
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Two other factors to consider…
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There are currently no leechers actively downloading the torrent's contents, so there's nowhere really to upload to.
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You need to make sure that the port number that your torrent client uses is forwarded in your router to your computer, both in TCP and in UDP. This is a very critical, but often overlooked step.
Where #2 is not possible, the only workaround is to use a VPN service that either forwards one port (and use that port for your torrent client), OR that forwards ALL incoming ports through the VPN to your computer.
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