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Low seeders -> torrent dies, stop/start -> magically revives? Wtf?

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Sakura90:
Hi nice ppl

I'm having a little issue with torrents. As I download obscure Jpn movies and music (that means if I get more than 5 seeders I throw a party) I always have a hard time downloading from crappy seeders. I don't mind the speed at all, even 30 kb/s makes my day happier.

But for some time I'm seeing a weird issue. It always seems to happen from the overwhelming number of 1 to 3 or 4 seeders. I begin downloading peacefully till the download speed drops to zero (it can be suddenly or slowly decreasing to 0). I can leave it for a day or two and it'll stay dead. But as soon as I stop and start the torrent, I get bits flowing again, sometimes even at amazing speeds of >100 kb/s.

It never happens with properly seeded torrents or even with 2 [apparently good] seeders. But it happens more often than I'd like to. With different trackers, different torrents, different seeders. I guess it's a problem with them and not me. Any idea what causes the stop/start action for them to become active again? Is it something because how the torrent system works? Not always stopping/starting makes the download start rolling again, but it usually does.

And more importantly, is there any way to automate the action? I mean, if a torrent download idles for x time and seeders > 0, it would stop and start again by itself. I use lastest uTorrent but I'm not picky, if there's a way to do that with any client I'll buy.

Xycolian2332:
Pretty sure your problem stems from the interval at which your torrent application updates the trackers.

I'm not an expert though, so your problem might be something entirely different.

Sakura90:
Currently I have a torrent with two seeders, always the same 2. They die randomly and the tracker updates every 30 min, there *seems* to be no relation between them. If the torrent is dead, even if the time when the tracker update comes (or if I force update) nothing changes. Only if I manually stop/start the torrent.

Does it really matter then, when it's always the same 2 IPs to connect to? I thought the tracker matters to give you the swarm information, IPs to connect and that sort of thing. But there's nothing new to update here.

Currently I'm on a winning streak it seems. It doesn't last more than 20 mins running, but I get speeds of 80 kb/s. Sometimes it dies and starts on it's own, often I need to intervene.

megido-rev.M:
It somewhat sounds like a problem with the two peers you're connecting to.

Dhruv:
Usually happens with those badly/low seeded torrents. Mostly because they client isn't able to receive any data from the peers and hence reports it as having 'Zero' seeders.

I'm not sure if this topic belongs to this board or not.

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