Freeleech request, please

[eobox91103]

@Lumithin My pleasure...and yours, too, I suspect.

[Lumithin]

@eobox91103 Absolutely! Thank you again

[A Former User]

@eobox91103 said in Freeleech request, please:

I don't fully understand this, although given that this is the case, more leechers (encouraged by a free-leech) would increase the likelihood that one could connect. I shall have to study "NAT issues" in my copious spare time

Every machine connected to the internet has a public IP address, but sometimes that IP is shared between multiple machines. To cut costs, Internet Providers often assign a single IP to multiple customers using NAT (Network Address Translation). But this comes with a big drawback:

If you're behind a NAT , every time a connection is established between you and another machine, it was initiated by you. Anyone trying to initiate a connection with you will be blocked by the NAT.

A good analogy would be: Imagine you and your neighbor are throwing separate parties, and NAT is the gatekeeper. When you invite guests, NAT keeps track of who belongs to which party and lets them in accordingly. But if a random stranger shows up uninvited, NAT turns them away at the gate.

So imagine you're the only seeder in a torrent. If you're behind a NAT, leechers will never be able to contact your client. Your client might proactively initiate a connection to the leecher, so even behind a NAT it is possible to seed. But if both the seeder and the leecher are behind a NAT, they will never be able to contact each other.

[eobox91103]

@ianfontinell-0 Thanks very much for the explanation! I had assumed that IP addresses were unique to each subscriber, but I can see some logic to this "party line" approach.

Two questions:

• Sometimes I connect directly to the ISP at one of my homes, and at other times use (Proton) VPN. Is one way more or less likely to use a NAT?
• Is there a way to tell if I'm behind a NAT?

Again, thank you.

[frostycab]

@eobox91103 said in Freeleech request, please:

• Is there a way to tell if I'm behind a NAT?

Some torrent clients will clue you in.

This is a snip from my BiglyBT client. (Formerly Vuze. formerly formerly Azureus.) You see the dark blue circle next to one of my active torrents? The tooltip for this reads "Means that the tracker is ok, you're connected to peers, but you don't have any remote connection. You may have a NAT problem if your torrents stay on this status all the time."

[eobox91103]

@frostycab Thanks very much. I use uTorrent, which probably has similar functionality if I fiddle with the settings. If you hear a loud explosion in the next few hours, you'll know I did something wrong.

[A Former User]

@eobox91103 said in Freeleech request, please:

• Sometimes I connect directly to the ISP at one of my homes, and at other times use (Proton) VPN. Is one way more or less likely to use a NAT?
• Is there a way to tell if I'm behind a NAT?

Both ISPs and VPNs rely on NAT for home customers, in the case of VPNs, some providers offer a unique IP at an additional cost. NordVPN charges an extra €4 for a dedicated IP. ProtonVPN only offers dedicated IPs on its business plans.

The most practical way to know if you have a unique IP is going through the router's settings, under the WAN page:

In my case you can see that I am assigned an IP starting with "100.68".
Anything from "100.64" to "100.127" is reserved for NAT use.

[Lumithin]

@raphjd Hi, this torrent that was in my list had 0 seeders until a few hours ago, now it has 1 seeder, could you please make it freeleech? Thank you so much

[Lumithin]

@Lumithin https://www.gaytor.rent/details.php?id=2168525d48c8612eec6b30a5f5a924a9c2f2375c902ada1a

[raphjd]

@Lumithin

I've been trying to get this to work. As I write this, I have been able to get 87.4% of the torrent, with the seeder still active.

Because it's so hard to finish this, I'm holding off on making it freeleech until it does.

Also, remember that this is not the correct place to post this, per my earlier post.