Author Topic: uTorrent will not let me seed.  (Read 5157 times)

Offline Supersnazzi

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uTorrent will not let me seed.
« on: January 23, 2010, 06:55:27 PM »
 >:( This is hurting my ratio terribly, I am very skilled with utorrent and there are no barriers or any limits set on my seeding and uploading but for some reason it doesn't seed or upload anything. Anyone got some help? Should I upgrade utorrent or redownload it?

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Re: uTorrent will not let me seed.
« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2010, 07:03:32 PM »
It just means you are not connected to peers/leechers, this happens usually when there are a lot of seeders but no leechers on a specific torrent.
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Re: uTorrent will not let me seed.
« Reply #2 on: January 24, 2010, 01:04:25 PM »
Indeed, like pds1337 wrote, it seems that most
of the torrents you have downloaded/seeded
have very few leechers. Find the ones that
actually have more than one or two leechers
and seed them. (Blood+ have 15 right now for
example.)
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Re: uTorrent will not let me seed.
« Reply #3 on: January 24, 2010, 02:32:46 PM »
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Re: uTorrent will not let me seed.
« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2010, 07:04:37 PM »
I'm guessing you need to feed it fuel  :D
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Re: uTorrent will not let me seed.
« Reply #5 on: January 25, 2010, 04:04:58 PM »
>:( This is hurting my ratio terribly, I am very skilled with utorrent and there are no barriers or any limits set on my seeding and uploading but for some reason it doesn't seed or upload anything. Anyone got some help? Should I upgrade utorrent or redownload it?

If you were so skilled with uTorrent, or torrents in general, you should know that you should be limiting your upload speed to approximately 75-80% of your theoretical maximum upload.

Just throwing that out there.

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Re: uTorrent will not let me seed.
« Reply #6 on: January 25, 2010, 06:34:55 PM »
>:( This is hurting my ratio terribly, I am very skilled with utorrent and there are no barriers or any limits set on my seeding and uploading but for some reason it doesn't seed or upload anything. Anyone got some help? Should I upgrade utorrent or redownload it?

If you were so skilled with uTorrent, or torrents in general, you should know that you should be limiting your upload speed to approximately 75-80% of your theoretical maximum upload.

Just throwing that out there.

Limiting upload speed doesn't have anything to do with utorrent not seeding anything.

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Re: uTorrent will not let me seed.
« Reply #7 on: January 26, 2010, 12:03:36 AM »
>:( This is hurting my ratio terribly, I am very skilled with utorrent and there are no barriers or any limits set on my seeding and uploading but for some reason it doesn't seed or upload anything. Anyone got some help? Should I upgrade utorrent or redownload it?

If you were so skilled with uTorrent, or torrents in general, you should know that you should be limiting your upload speed to approximately 75-80% of your theoretical maximum upload.

Just throwing that out there.

Limiting upload speed doesn't have anything to do with utorrent not seeding anything.
But it does have to do with a claimed expertise with bittorrent clients.
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Re: uTorrent will not let me seed.
« Reply #8 on: January 26, 2010, 03:19:18 AM »
Turning on protocol encryption sounds inefficient, but it resolved my problem.  I suggest turning it or at least make it optional.  This one was tricky to troubleshoot because some ISPs don't care about P2P traffic all that much and seeding non-baka bt torrents was going swell.  But some peers may not be as fortunate and have to use other means getting around the potential problems of throttling.  When the number of peers dwindle and appear from places I haven't even heard of before, this can make a big difference in one's potential capability of seeding.

If this is not in the FAQ or wiki for beginners, this might be a nice hint.

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Re: uTorrent will not let me seed.
« Reply #9 on: January 26, 2010, 09:37:33 AM »
Turning on protocol encryption sounds inefficient, but it resolved my problem.  I suggest turning it or at least make it optional.  This one was tricky to troubleshoot because some ISPs don't care about P2P traffic all that much and seeding non-baka bt torrents was going swell.  But some peers may not be as fortunate and have to use other means getting around the potential problems of throttling.  When the number of peers dwindle and appear from places I haven't even heard of before, this can make a big difference in one's potential capability of seeding.

If this is not in the FAQ or wiki for beginners, this might be a nice hint.
It IS in the Wiki;
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 See if your ISP is throttling you

Some ISPs actively throttle Bittorrent traffic. Find out if your ISP does so. There are several online services, such as Glasnost, that allow you to do so.

If your ISP throttles you, try enabling Protocol Encryption in your torrent client settings.

Protocol encryption, inefficient?  What? :-\
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Re: uTorrent will not let me seed.
« Reply #10 on: January 26, 2010, 12:48:03 PM »
Forced Protocol Encryption is inefficient, but if you allow both ways this should solve most of your seeding problems.  ;)
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Re: uTorrent will not let me seed.
« Reply #11 on: January 26, 2010, 02:40:07 PM »
UDP, uTP?
Works for me.
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