So a file I was needing is showing as 9 seeds, 5 peers, but its stalled.

Why is that? And what does it mean for me other than I can’t grab it. Is there something I can do on my end, or is it on the other side of things?

I’ve just cut the cord, so if these questions are basic, I apologize, I am just now learning a lot of this stuff

  • CallOfTheWild@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    1 year ago

    In qbit click on the stalled torrent and look for “last time seen complete” if it says “never” it means the file is dead. None of the seeders have the last bit of the file and the seeders are other people waiting for somebody to complete the file. If this happens just delete and restart from a different source.

    Edit: This applies to files that have started downloading then stalled out later. If your download is still at 0% you have a separate issue.

  • admin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    132·
    1 year ago

    I have noticed that healthy torrents stall when the ISP closes the port I was using in the end. Several torrent clients have the option to check if the port is open or closed, and also another option to randomize the port at startup.

    QBittorrent and Transmission have an option to anonymize or have the data encrypted, and that seems to make a difference for me when downloading using my employers ISP.

    • BurnerPhone867@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I have a VPN, and I checks for ipleak’s before I ever grab anything. I also have Qbit forced to go through my VPN. I am not sure how to do the Anonymous downloading

      I will look into the tools section again

      • jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Does your VPN provider allow port forwarding? That’s probably the answer to this. Forward a port through the VPN provider and set the qBit listening port to the same.

        The seeders and leechers number is pulled from trackers (I think?) but doesn’t accurately represent the numbers available to you unless you have port forwarding set up properly.

        Edit: just my 2 cents if your provider doesn’t offer port forwarding, I use AirVPN and it’s excellent. Great speeds and it offers everything I need. My only complaint is that the website is confusing.

  • acceptable_pumpkin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Are there any easy ways to auto purge stalled torrents (either after a certain amount of time, or if they’ve never seen a complete copy after some time?) I have most of the *arr suite and use qbittorrent. I recently installed qbit_manage, but I’m not sure how to use it yet.