How do I seed?
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Just to be clear. Uploading, in itself, gives no bonus points unless it is your first upload and you claim the one-off 600 points.
What uploading does is to increase your upload amount and so improve your ratio. You may also receive bonus points from people who download.
I do agree that, if you can, it is a good idea to keep your seeds running. I have often had a sudden burst of activity from quite old torrents, perhaps someone has discovered an old post
You can also improve your ratio by only downloading freeleech movies for a while.
And make sure you grab all the seed points you can by voting in the category option on those things you have downloaded or adding (relevant) pictures to a torrent page
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same problem here…
I think it is a tracker problem
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Well usually after you've downloaded something, it will automatically seed. However, it seems like it doesn't work sometimes for some reason, like you're seeding but you're not getting any points…if that makes sense
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My seeding is horrible, even after opening ports and everything, so I'm always right at the limit or below :afr:
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Are you choosing torrents that people want?
Do you leave your torrent client running with the files you have downloaded after the download is finished? Sometimes poeple will come to them a while after you think all interest is gone.
Have you tried picking some freeleech torrents? But make sure there is plenty of time left.
And don't forget uploading (seeding) is slower than downloading.
And get some bonus points by joining in the forum, adding pictures to torrents or voting on your downloads (you haven't made any category votes - you can make them even if a torrent already has a category).
Post your own torrent (search for duplicates first)
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(Dunno if you're still here, so anyone else can answer)
How do I make sure people ACTUALLY download whatever I'm seeding? I've downloaded dozens of Freeleech stuff, but the "Uploaded" stat on my client is still stuck at 0 on pretty much all of 'em.
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@DeepSeaTide With our tracker specifically, you need to make sure that the port your torrent client uses is forwarded through your home router or VPN to your PC both in TCP and UDP, as our tracker does not support passive nodes.
When the tracker does not support passive nodes, in order to upload any content, your torrent client must first establish the connection to the other device directly, then begin the upload.
Devices that are trying to download the torrent will likely try to connect to you to request the pieces and begin to download, however your router or VPN does not forward this request to your PC, and cannot bounce the connection through the tracker as a passive node, so the result is that the connection times out, and the device that is downloading attempts the next peer in the list.
If the only device that is seeding the torrent does not have their port forwarding properly in place (and the tracker does not support passive nodes), their device must connect directly to yours, then the download takes place using the follow-back path... But if neither device has their port forwarding in place, and there are no other devices in the peer pool that do, torrents can seemingly get "stuck" until someone who does have their port forwarding in place jumps into the pool.
So I cannot stress enough that proper port forwarding with our tracker is a must.
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So what does all this mean? Like, what are passive nodes?
Since I can't use Port Forwarding (Free version of Proton VPN), what's happening in the torrent client while the VPN is active? Does the Leecher's device connect directly to mine?
Is that why my seeds don't get seeded often, and why it's so hard to download from a seeder at times?
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@DeepSeaTide Yes... Not having the proper port forwarding in place will cause all sorts of problems. Simply put, it is a must
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