Nothing seems to seed
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Kinda obvious but the problem is my download is lightning fast, but upload... not so much.
I know it has nothing to do with port forwarding or whatever because when I download a torrent from say the pirate bay (or other popular torrents) I can be seeding terabytes if I kept it up, but for some reason this site's torrent might upload a trickle, but as soon as I finish downloading it the seed stops and nothing's being uploaded. I might get intermittent uploads here and there but for most torrents, there seems to be way more seeders than leechers meaning over time your ratio will just keep dropping.
Are there some suggestions as to which torrents I can use/seed so I don't end up dipping below 1?
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@Chaser18 I see two things going on here. The first is that most of the torrents that you are seeding on our site do not have any leechers actively downloading them. Many of these torrents qualify for freeleech, so we can help with that.
The second thing may actually be port forwarding. See, most other trackers work just fine with passive nodes. Our tracker however is different than most. It gets very picky with passive nodes, so with our tracker, it is actually critical that you make sure that the port your torrent client uses is forwarded through your home network (or VPN if you're using one) both in TCP and UDP. Without this, you will struggle with uploads.
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How do I know this passive node thing is working properly?
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@Chaser18 said in Nothing seems to seed:
How do I know this passive node thing is working properly?
When the designated port is open and reachable, you should see the I (uppercase i) flag listed in the peer flags in active torrents. That is, torrents that are either downloading or uploading (i.e, not stalled). The I flag is more common to appear when you are seeding.
It's easier to check with popular torrents (could be from public or private tracker, as long as it has lots of leechers). If you are often actively seeding but you never see the I flag appear for any connected peer, that's a bad sign...
The complete absence of the I flag means you have port issues. You could set a port correctly in your router and client and it still not be reachable due to your ISP's infrastructure.
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I'm using uTorrent and I don't know what to look for.
If it's a ISP problem then there's nothing I can do about it...
I heard of a so called seed box, what is it?
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This is a torrent I just captured a peer from...
It appears right, but again none of my GT torrents are seeding AT ALL but the stuff from the pirate bay seeds just fine (in fact I can be uploading a lot if I let it).
I really don't know if it's my ISP or if it's just that it happens every single torrent I seed is not being downloaded at all.
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@Chaser18 the presence of the I flag shows your port is working fine, you are able to receive incoming connections, so your client is not a passive node. The poor seeding performance you're getting is most likely caused by low demand for the torrents you're downloading. Torrents that have too many seeders and few leechers.
You need to find a balance between the things you want to download, and the things that have potential to boost your ratio. If you only download things that already have lots of seeders, your ratio will plummet fast.
Good ways to increase seeding chances:
- freshly uploaded torrents with only 1 seeder.
- torrents with few seeders that just went freeleech.
- freeleeching torrents that you already have in your client and that have few seeders.
And as a last resort, you can buy a seedbox subscription. They are designed to increase torrenting efficiency:
- You are assigned a public IP and port range
- Symmetrical gigabit speeds
- More permissive NAT/Firewall rules
- 24/7 Uptime
- Better latency
Together all those factors guarantee your torrent client is always online and reachable with no service interruption, with low latency and high speeds that are often prioritized by the bittorrent protocol.
With a seedbox you can set rules to automatically download certain torrents and automatically delete torrents after they reach a certain ratio, freeing up space for other fresh torrents with higher demand. You could run a seedbox exclusively for seed farming, and use your home computer to download what you want to keep.
