Not getting any leechers when I seed, even though there are many?

[Al_Sleeper]

You can store games, watched movies, etc. on an external HDD.
However, it is not recommended to use XHDD for seeding.
External HDD boxes with decent ventilation and USB 3.0 interface cost about 40€, and HDDs for them (WD 3TB) cost about 100€ apiece.

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I do not try to advertize these particular models, they are just examples of what you can buy for the stated price.

[HeartVivian]

The games I have are installed in my HDD from Steam. Even if I removed everything besides my games and anime, I still do not see any possible way for it to hold 150 torrents of 720p anime series. :x

[pityrules]

I haven't figured out how to properly seed torrents once I move it (and I'm actually kind of lazy to learn)

I posted a link earlier in this discussion that describes a super easy way to reseed files that have been moved and renamed. Baisically in utorrent click on the file tab at the bottom then right click and relocate. Then you can rename the torrents and still seed them.

Thanks Freedom Kira, I will google more about forwarding ports and let you guys know if that makes a difference for seeding to more leechers.

As for Hard drives I just bought a Seagate 3TB for $120 online. Worth the investment especially for the files found here. It seems that most people who have good ratios are seeding a lot of files though, more than my meager 15 or so at any time. So indeed the number of torrents seems to be key.

Update: Freedom Kira you might be a genius. I followed the advice in this link http://www.zeropaid.com/bbs/threads/47153-How-to-Settup-uTorrent-for-Seeding/page2 about ports and unchecking anything with DHT and peer on my torrent client and voila! Finally seeding. Coincidence?

[HeartVivian]

I haven't figured out how to properly seed torrents once I move it (and I'm actually kind of lazy to learn)

I posted a link earlier in this discussion that describes a super easy way to reseed files that have been moved and renamed. Baisically in utorrent click on the file tab at the bottom then right click and relocate. Then you can rename the torrents and still seed them.

Thanks Freedom Kira, I will google more about forwarding ports and let you guys know if that makes a difference for seeding to more leechers.

As for Hard drives I just bought a Seagate 3TB for $120 online. Worth the investment especially for the files found here. It seems that most people who have good ratios are seeding a lot of files though, more than my meager 15 or so at any time. So indeed the number of torrents seems to be key.

That's not really my problem though since I cannot seed on external HDD anyways. I often unplug them and move my computer for class. Not that I would seed then anywho, I'm simply stating the inconvenience of using an external for seeding purposes.

[pityrules]

What do you mean by you can't seed from a hard drive? It won't work at all, or it is too inconvenient because of needing to disconnect it frequently? I struggle with the latter, especially because I need to force recheck all the files if I don't stop them before disconnecting hard drive.  I wonder if it be better to have a different bittorrent client for seeding than leeching? Then I could just close the seeding program before disconnecting my hard drive and not have to waste precious seeding time rechecking the files when I reconnect, and also I could configure one for optimal downloading and the other for optimal seeding. I am a bit like a monkey playing a piano in this discussion though as I only have a rudimentary understanding of how torrent clients work.

[HeartVivian]

What do you mean by you can't seed from a hard drive? It won't work at all, or it is too inconvenient because of needing to disconnect it frequently? I struggle with the latter, especially because I need to force recheck all the files if I don't stop them before disconnecting hard drive.  I wonder if it be better to have a different bittorrent client for seeding than leeching? Then I could just close the seeding program before disconnecting my hard drive and not have to waste precious seeding time rechecking the files when I reconnect, and also I could configure one for optimal downloading and the other for optimal seeding. I am a bit like a monkey playing a piano in this discussion though as I only have a rudimentary understanding of how torrent clients work.

Ignore everything I've said up until this point. I don't think I have properly expressed what I was meaning to say and I will continue just to seed how I have been seeding since my ratio isn't too bad as it currently is.

I apologize for using up this thread for my own question. I hope the creator had his questioned answered.

[Freedom Kira]

I followed the advice in this link http://www.zeropaid.com/bbs/threads/47153-How-to-Settup-uTorrent-for-Seeding/page2 about ports and unchecking anything with DHT and peer on my torrent client and voila! Finally seeding. Coincidence?

Hmm, DHT and Peer Discovery are two technologies that assist with finding peers when trackers are unavailable. They are disabled for BakaBT torrents and should stay that way, but there's no reason why you should tell your client to explicitly disable them for all torrents. They just take a few bytes per second for bandwidth.

^ How do you have the HDD for that? My current internal HDD is around 1TB and it's basically already full of games, documents, music, anime, movies, etc. I haven't figured out how to properly seed torrents once I move it (and I'm actually kind of lazy to learn) so instead of spending the trouble, I copy downloaded anime over to an external HDD (also 1TB) in which I can rename/organize it. The external is also pretty much about to hit full capacity. The anime that was downloaded and still in my internal stays to be seeded. I have only downloaded 720p/1080p anime so averaging 5GB per anime. That is 750GB of space for 150 torrents of anime series averaging 5GB each which is space I currently do not have to spare.

Speedtest looks good - your upload speed is double mine, and is actually faster than the fastest we have here in Canada. =/
Be careful when you fill up a hard drive. Access times increase and drives slow down as that happens. Be sure to keep it defragmented, at the very least, if you are using NTFS or FAT. Full drives are known to cause seeding bottlenecks.

As for torrents, don't forget that anime is not the only thing you can download here. I seed all kinds of things.

And as for me, let's just say that I have six 3TB disks in RAID 5. I got them before the HDD shortage that happened after the Thailand flood, so they were a cheap $120 with $10 rebate each. They're not RAID-grade drives but you can't really ask for much at that price. But of course, we're off-topic again with this...

[pityrules]

Yeah after I posted that I read up on peer enabling and DHT and realised it was probably a strange coincidence. Odd though, it seems that any time I change settings on utorrent it boosts my speeds for a few minutes before they settle back down.

Upon further investigation through these forums I see that successful seeding pretty much amounts to seeding for a really long time as most torrents are healthy and there is a line up of people waiting to seed.