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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.

@Chaser18 said in Trouble getting it up...:

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I didn't know a sex therapist is a thing.

It very much is, and it's quite expensive 🤣

But it seems a common enough problem because the number of people who can successfully top seems to be low. It also depends on having a partner who knows how to get you up for one... and I think I need more than one night stands and sauna sessions for this.

That's also something to consider, finding someone you trust and with whom you already have a solid bond is key for figuring those things out. Specially if you're only used to nsa and one night stands with total strangers.

It's easy to assume that one thing is simple and easy and that struggling with it indicates that there's something wrong with ourselves, when we are just trying too hard to fit a shoe that isn't ours.