Hey all, I know a lot of people are migrating to private torrent sites, and OK, that’s a choice. However there are still a lot of people on the public torrents who are just leeching and not seeding.
I have several popular (old/classic) movies in my feed that I have uploaded (literally) 1000x the original and many more in the several hundred times. That’s fine, I choose to support the community, but it’s pretty depressing when I look at the seeders count and those movies have 2 or 3 other seeders.
This only works if you share. Please don’t cut off as soon as you’ve downloaded.
And on a personal note, if anyone has audio or video files for “Machine Gun Fellatio” also listed as MGF could you please start seeding in particular
“MGF Pack 1”
“MGF+Pack+2”
“MGF+Pack+3”
If I can get the download completed I’ll keep them up permanently, but unfortunately as they are obscure/rare I’m getting nowhere.
Rules don’t permit me showing the torrent link of course. DM if that would help
I would love to seed but I can never seem to get my client and network setup to do it with any torrent I’ve tried. I’ve attempted everything I can find online, across different ISPs, computer builds, and OS instances. Can’t ever seem to get it working between all the different configurations.
Now I’m running a pfSense firewall on a FIOS connection, with Windows 10, and qBittorrent behind Proton VPN. Still haven’t been able to get even freeleech torrents to seed. I’ve tried a lot of clients and ports over the years. I think it may be something I’m doing wrong!
Maybe a dumb question, but have you enabled port forwarding in your torrent client and ensured that the VPN server you are connected to allows port forwarding? Proton has decent documentation on how to do this, but it’s not obvious if you didnt already know you needed port forwarding.
This had me tripped up for nearly a full year after I got back into torrenting.
I appreciate the suggestion. I have followed their guides, set up Proton VPN with their torrent servers involving ports to forward. I updated that port in the client and it still just sits there, staring at me with a 0.3 seed rate. I keep them up for at least 30-days (to appease my private tracker’s 2:1 seeds or 14-day offering) to no avail. I keep trying different things and just kind of accept it, for now. Maybe when I move to Linux as my daily driver I’ll have better luck in that field!
I’ve seen some people have issues with being able to punch qBittorrent through a VPN so that may be the first place to troubleshoot. Maybe Proton gatekeeps certain traffic? Other than that I can’t help, sorry.
Not a problem. I use IRC and Usenet (in the past) for most of my searches, but some things are too old to be on those and in any condition to work after download. Proton VPN provides specific servers for port forwards (maybe only on paid subs), but that makes no difference when I provide it to the client. The search for a fix continues!
One thing to check is whether you are receiving “Incoming” connections on other torrents (the I flag in Qbittorrent peer status). If you are, port forwarding is probably working, its just that maybe nobody in those torrents’ trackers and DHT are requesting it
I’ll take a look at my settings more in-depth tonight after work. Thanks for the suggestion and the comment!
I’ve never noticed the lack of port forwarding actually impacting the ability to seed (I’m sure it’s slower and harder for peers to find you but if you’re actively downloading new things you’re constantly announcing on trackers and DHT and if you leave something reasonably popular to seed you’ll seed) but I am not a Proton user, I suppose they could be doing some kind of no seed crap like when Facebook was pirating to train its AI.
With paid sub, I believe, you can use Proton VPN with their torrent servers including ports they forward. It changes every time, however. I think it’s just me and Windows. I think I’m nearing the time to switch my daily driver to Linux and, if successful, I’ll move my server to a Linux distro soon after, as well!
ProtonVPN forwarded port is random on a new connection, it’s not that you’re using windows that this is the case.
Thanks for the comment. They have information on their site about how to set up various clients, including qBittorrent, to update the Proton VPN port. The issue is, it doesn’t work, so every time I reboot (seldom as this is a server machine with services running), I just have to update the connection port for qBt. I don’t doubt the port for both the VPN and qBt are the issue, but I also know that’s usually the first thing that gets pointed out when specifying trouble with some network-based, port-opening software.
Maybe I’m looking at a different guide than you, but I’m not seeing any way for qbittorrent to auto update the forwarded port from Proton. Everytime your VPN connection resets (either from reboot or just a dropped connection), you have to manually update the port in qbittorrent. Of course there are some scripts that can do this for you.
Hmm, you’re right. I just looked for the same article and I guess I was misremembering the content of the Proton VPN KB article.
curl -s --data 'json={"listen_port": "'"$port"'"}' https:/ /[your-instance-here]/api/v2/app/setPreferencesWhat @dmention7@lemm.ee wrote: qBittorrent can pretty easily punch a hole through your router if you can enable UPnP on it. Don’t forget to enable it in qBittorrent as well, although I think it’s on by default.
If that’s not an option, then you might have to spend a bit of time setting up port forwarding manually, which has always been a pain, but once you learn it, it’s quite easy.
Appreciate the comment. I’ll confirm my uPnP settings in the firewall and client when I get home from work. I think they’re both enabled and Proton VPN has the port forward so that isn’t the hangup. This issue goes all the way back to my Limewire days, when torrents were just getting big and being targeted heavily by the RIAA and MPAA. I use IRC for most of my searches and only use torrents for hard to find things. I’d love to see stuff like Linux distros, the internet archives, and other seemingly important (legal) causes, if I can get them to work consistently.
And I gotta say, I love the attempted support by you and others. Peace, love, and humptiness, forever!
Unfortunately not more I can do regarding the router, each one is different after all.
I don’t know which IRC/XDCC service you use, but I only recently heard of https://www.xdcc.eu/ which is pretty nice. Back when I watched anime in the early 00s I used to do most things via IRC, just so convenient to look up groups on like anidb.net (of course still possible, example: subsplease -> XDCC) and get it straight from the source.
I agree with Linux distros. I’d prefer that all of them used torrents besides their regular mirrors. Distrowatch has a tracker, and then there’s FOSStorrents, but there’s no guarantee ones distro of choice ends up there.