36 completed Torrents. NONE will seed.

[Hinanan]

I'm using what I assume is the newest version of BitTorrent (just updated a few days ago), I have tons of completed torrents, quite a few of which are from BakaBT. None of them have more than 20 seeders, yet ALL of them say no leechers are downloading from them, despite most of them having leechers waiting. All of these are NOT queued and say they are seeding, but I see no activity. No download/upload speed, nothing but a 0 next to the leecher number, etc. These are from BakaBT AND other sites, and BitTorrent has the green icon with a check at the bottom, indicating everything is running fine (I assume? I'm new to the torrent concept).

Could it be pure coincidence, simply because the leecher numbers are all below 20? I would think at least ONE of them would be downloading from me though...

I certainly don't want to get warned or worse despite having so much to seed. Any recommendations or suggestions?

[psyren]

I think your ISP came up as one of the many to throttle seeding.
Try turning on protocol encryption.

EDIT: that, and learn to recognise seeders from leechers. All the torrents you're seeding have between 0-3 leechers.
Problem solved.

[Hinanan]

I think your ISP came up as one of the many to throttle seeding.
Try turning on protocol encryption.

EDIT: that, and learn to recognise seeders from leechers. All the torrents you're seeding have between 0-3 leechers.
Problem solved.

I assumed Peers were Leechers and Seeds were Seeders. Many DO have 0 Peers, but some have Peers that my client refuses to upload too, which confuses me... but again, I am new to all of this.

Anyway, I've stopped ALL of my downloads, on and off BakaBT. That somehow got 2 of them to start despite my having set my queue and other limits very high. I guess I'll leave it that way and hope my upload size climbs. I'm a little worried about bonus torrents adding to my 'downloaded' status, but I'll look into some of them too.

Edit: Oh, I was also confused, since many of my torrents OFF BakaBT had as many as 20 Peers that my client wouldn't upload to. Sorry for my newbiness. ^^;

[psyren]

Peers = the number of other people on the torrent, regardless of whether they're seeds or leechers.
My suggestion for protocol encryption still stands.

[Hinanan]

Peers = the number of other people on the torrent, regardless of whether they're seeds or leechers.
My suggestion for protocol encryption still stands.

Ahhh, understood. Thank you for explaining that part.

I enabled protocol encryption. It didn't seem to make much difference, but I'm guessing there could be multiple factors behind that.

[psyren]

Once you enable it, you need to close and re-open your client.

[kerato]

same problem i can't seed  :'( .
I have enough time to seed but my torrents just won't seed.
Other torrents i downloaded from an other site (don't worry i download all my japanese stuff here ) seed perfectly en have an share ratio above 5.
I use vuze en the status of the torrents is is force seeding.
I want to enable protocol encryption but i don know how.
I'm using torrents for a couple of years now so you don't have to go easy on me.
So please help i want to seed!!

[Pzc]

same problem i can't seed  :'( .
I have enough time to seed but my torrents just won't seed.
Other torrents i downloaded from an other site (don't worry i download all my japanese stuff here ) seed perfectly en have an share ratio above 5.
I use vuze en the status of the torrents is is force seeding.
I want to enable protocol encryption but i don know how.
I'm using torrents for a couple of years now so you don't have to go easy on me.
So please help i want to seed!!

You too have a lack of leechers on the three
torrents you are currently seeding.

15/1, 52/8 and 7/0 makes for a hard time to
get them bytes trickling upwards.

[Takeshi]

Try to look at the torrents I am seeding; I am getting nothing uploaded as I am writing this, but once in a while someone decides to get from me. So you're not alone..however, it's not like I am trying to get upload credit at the moment anyway, just providing some good speeds.

Pick other torrents. Get on new uploads; usually big animes titles gets a lot of leechers even though the availability of the files is pretty good. Use that availability to your advantage and seed them.

Follow discussions in the Uploaders' Forum and get fansubs BBT seems to be heading towards. This of course requires some effort on your side.

Fire up some 1080p torrents and seed them. Evidently, they're great for getting your ratio up since the download credit isn't accounted for, only upload.

We've all been in the boat before. I used to keep my laptop running all night seeding only to see my ratio go from 0.856 to 0.860 the next morning. Depressing I tell you, and I was seeding most of the time.

You just need some patience. Once you become a Power User it gets much easier when you can jump on new torrents as they're granted.

[Astara]

Also helps to pick torrents that don't have many seeders to start with.  It's a big bust if you get to a new release late and try to pick up any points -- by the time you are done the swarm is one and no one is downloading from the seeders.  What a let down.

The more completed torrents you KEEP in uploading state -- means they are getting offered and you should be able to tell if you are a registered uploader by looking at your stats page -- there you will see if the site 'see's you as uploading or not.  It took days before I started getting enough downloaded to begin to see some people downloading from me.  My ratio is still not that great ~.3, but it's improving and I've
started trying to earn points -- hopefully that will bear fruit eventually -- though that's been a bit of a disappointment as well -- as several I picked up on bonus offer page, became non-bonus after I joined!

GRRRR!

[Freedom Kira]

We've all been in the boat before. I used to keep my laptop running all night seeding only to see my ratio go from 0.856 to 0.860 the next morning. Depressing I tell you, and I was seeding most of the time.

I'd love for my ratio to go up by 0.004 in a single night.

Mine usually goes up that much in 1-2 weeks seeding 24/7. Granted, I'm seeding other stuff too, but still...