Topics created by Bonk

@Bonk:

one's probably higher picture quality.

One file is more than four times the size of the other.  Not eve close to being duplicates.

@MrMazda:

Well… To be honest, I did a little more than just request a re-seed... I also put a freeleech on them and/or promoted them back to the top of the list because they were older torrents. This generally encourages users to download them. When I saw that part of your problem was that there were no leechers, I took it upon myself to give the torrents a bit of a booster to help fix that part of the equation for you. 🙂

This explains why today there's no activity going on anymore…

At least now I know that seeding on GTru actually works. But now what? One of the torrents I'm seeding currently shows three leechers here on the website. In Tixati, it shows me "two seeds are available". Yet still no one downloads from me. Is it indeed like vaylon wrote because there are seeders with faster connections available and we are being ignored? What's the point of seeding and a ratio system if we are not treated equally?

I've tried to explain already in some other forum replies, that as long as your torrent client can connect to the tracker and get the peer IPs, it is not a technical issue of our tracker. I am sure that any correct torrent client programme can connect to our tracker and get the IPs. I've used myself multiple: µTorrent/BitTorrent, Vuze/Azureus, BitComet, Transmission, qBittorrent, FreeDownloadManager …

That is because the upload/download (aka seeding/leeching) is negotiated directly between the torrent clients. It isn't go over the tracker or is controlled by the tracker.

Looking to your Profile, you seed two torrents right now:
The first got 453 seeds and 70 peers (leecher). Out of the 70, 69 got 98.53%. that means they have chosen not to download the 9 screen captions files, but only the movie. That makes 522 seeds for one real leecher, so it is absolutely "normal" that you won't upload to this single peer, you are in competition with more than 500 others.

The second got right now 53 seeds, no peers (leecher) no upload possible.

So that you don't upload has nothing to do with a technical issue of the tracker, but the dynamics of a torrent and torrent swarm.

If you join in very early, it is likely that you can upload something back. If you join late, many will complete before you and will become seeds before you and few members will join after you and those who do get feed from the many seeds. This leaves only low upload to each of them.

This particular case aside, we currently have a close eye on the "low" number of downloads per torrent, though the total numbers are about 20% higher than 3 months ago.

Please keep in mind that this year has seen two major changes targeting to generate an up-spin dynamic:

Introduction of the Freeleech feature Automatic recycling of old torrents (rewarding those members who kezpt them alive over months)

assorted with once a 24 hours Freeleech Marathon and a few weeks of Freeleech Fest.

In the UK it's very common to get a preprogrammed router/modem from your ISP with all the security setting already set.

Some of the smaller ISPs don't provide you with a router/modem, so in that case you have to supply your own and can do whatever you like to it's settings.