Seeding issue with new torrents
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I have recently returned to this site after a long absence and started uploading files. I have no difficulty creating torrents, uploading and making them visible. I have 2 issues after that with seeding:
- On a new torrent even if I allocate a maximum bandwidth to uploading the files I only seem to reach about 200Kbs.
- Once I have uploaded a torrent and it has been seeded100%, the number of uploads very quickly falls away and I seem to stick on very low ratios.
In either cases I can see that these torrents are still being actively snatched.
It may be this issue is down to my ISP but I am not convinced that is the real problem
I have read somewhere that this may be a port forwarding issue but I can not find the post where I read this.
Anybody help with what I need to do - in particular with changing the port forwarding.
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@nix54 Do you mean you have the seeding issue/low bandwidth happening when you start seeding a torrent you just uploaded, or does issue happen after you have seeded to 100% completion and other people are on it and also seeding?
Methinks it is that you simply have a slower connection than you think (many people simply don't have a connection as fast as others do), or it could be that others just have a faster connection than you do. I don't think the port forwarding is going to help you much if the issue is either one that I described.
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Thanks. I know this could be the problem but I am not convinced. Maybe it is an issue with my ISP limiting this sort of file streaming. Even so I still feel that some part of this is a local problem.
I have a direct fibre broadband connection unlimited gb (up or download) with a 30Mps down and 10Mps Up. I know this is not the fastest but I don't play computer games and I am a single man without other family members in the house using bandwidth.
I seem to be able to achieve rates of rates easily 5Mps down and 2Mps up when downloading or uploading on other sites, to friends, to cloud services etc.
I do realise that the speed at which the files are pulled from me does depend on the speed the downloader has permitted. I often limit these myself to ensure that other things are not adversely affected.
I use a separate computer for downloading and uploading files on these sites. Actually though I never seem to have any other device affected by the speed of downloads or uploads whether at busy times or not.
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So my ratio on my latest upload has stalled at 0.97 - which means that nobody has uploaded the entire torrent.
So I have just tried to download this torrent myself using another computer. I get one seeder showing in my peers but not me. That peer has this torrent as 97% downloaded. My download speed was initially 100 Kbs and then declined to single bytes and has now stalled at 17.5%.
I just tried downloading another torrent I uploaded a couple of weeks ago on another computer. I successfully downloaded this at 1.3Mps with 5 Peers. None of those peers was me.
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@nix54 Perhaps you need to "make yourself connectable", as the saying goes. I used to be on a site which had a connectability tool, but have no idea where or how you could check that out. You can have good upload/download speeds, but if you're not connectable, that can cause slowdown issues. That could be why you're not seeing yourself as a peer. Look into that.
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@nix54 This sounds like a port forwarding issue. Our tracker is very sensitive with port forwarding for some reason. In order to get proper upload traffic all the time, you need to make sure that the port your torrent client is using is forwarded through your home router or VPN to your computer, both in TCP and UDP. Without this, you will notice the exact symptoms you seem to be having.
If it's of any help, your current torrent client is reporting that it seems to be using port 63357.
