seeding problem (specific to bakabt only)

[liquidosnake]

Hi guys, I have trouble seeding.

I know it's hard to upload when there are like 100 seeders and 20 leechers, so I picked a torrent "Uchuu Senkan Yamato: Aratanaru Tabidachi [MW]" with 65 seeders and 143 leechers.

However, I still cannot upload at all. I just cannot seem to connect. In the seeds/peer list, the number is zero, but number in parenthesis is fine. So for this torrent, I get something like 0 (65), 0 (143).

I use utorrent, and the arrow is green, so connection is fine. The tracker says it's working. I also have torrents from other sites and they upload fine as well, with high speed. I only have the bakabt torrent running so not to eat bandwidth, so that shouldn't be the problem.

Does anyone know what's causing the problem?  Thanks all.

[DaggerLite]

Assuming that there's not actually anything wrong:

- Perhaps you have a max upload slots set. I think it's either 3 or 10 by default. You can change it under preferences, or right click and set [F]orced on the torrents you'd like to ignore slot queue.

- If you've seeded 150% (1.5 times the size of your download), µTorrent is by default set to stop seeding. You can change this under preferences as well. I think I set mine to 1000%.

- You can allow encrypted connections, also under preferences, disabled by default; which will allow more connections assuming that a portion of the swarm are forcing encryption. These peers won't seed to or download from others who don't allow encryption.

...there are probably more tricks around to try.

[psyren]

Which version of uTorrent are you using?
If it's 1.8.4, go back to using 1.8.3.

[blubart]

even though the torrent reports 140+ leechers it seems to have non (it's a display bug or something). try another torrent (with some leechers) and i'm sure it will work fine.

[liquidosnake]

thanks for the comments guys.

yeah man, it's 1.8.3.

If I can connect to just one leecher, then I can upload at a fine speed. The problem is I can't connect even though the arrow is green and I can see how many peers.

I downloaded another torrent, the new Fatal Wolf one, and that one uploads alright, even though there are lots of seeders.

I think the problem is that I can upload while downloading a new torrent, but that I have to leave the torrent on. If I stop the torrent, restart the PC or whatever, and come back to seed the torrent, then I can't connect at all.

[shadowmaniac]

even though the torrent reports 140+ leechers it seems to have non (it's a display bug or something). try another torrent (with some leechers) and i'm sure it will work fine.

Is it a uTorrent bug or a tracker bug? Just wondering if BakaBT's user pages will properly report the number of leechers.

[Xiong Chiamiov]

even though the torrent reports 140+ leechers it seems to have non (it's a display bug or something). try another torrent (with some leechers) and i'm sure it will work fine.

Is it a uTorrent bug or a tracker bug? Just wondering if BakaBT's user pages will properly report the number of leechers.

They should be, although that number can be misleading, if people only download part of a torrent.  We don't generally have many of those, though.

[Blair906]

The exact same thing is happening to me, except I'm using Transmission 1.54.  I'm praying I don't get warned before these five days are up, so I can find better torrents to seed.

[liquidosnake]

Okay, after the server RIP, the "Aratanaru Tabidachi [MW]" torrent now shows 0 leechers, which is what I expect from the low upload speed and mostly 0 connection I get for the past few days for this torrent. Before the server change it showed 140+ leechers. So I guess it was the server showing up weird numbers?