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

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HeartVivian:

--- Quote from: pityrules on March 05, 2013, 03:18:23 PM ---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.

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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:

--- Quote from: pityrules on March 05, 2013, 02:45:36 PM ---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?

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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.


--- Quote from: HeartVivian on March 05, 2013, 07:56:41 AM ---^ 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.



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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.

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