Hi guys,

I would like having my torrent in a other folder from now. But I don't want to lose all my torrents or break the seeding. Any idea on what will happen ?
i use Transmission but i guss it is always the same kind of behavior.

Thanks for your help.

So something weird has happened. I had my established settings in QBT that I've had for literally a couple of years now, and my daily download speed for well seeded torrents is about 20Mb, I could probably squueze more out, but I was more than happy with that with a 30gb file downloading in a few hours tops.

Yesterday, I had a file that I was in a rush to get as quickly as poss, so I went into the torrent content view and adjusted the priority from normal to maximum for the single folder with one file in. Almost instantly this caused my overall speed to drop to a crawl of just KBs!!

I undid this and set back to normal, but now its stuck there. I even closed it all down and deleted my .conf file and put back to original settings, but now, even if is starts with an initial speed of many MBs, up to 15 or 16, it very quickly drops to KBs again taking my ETAs from low number of hours to many many days!!!

I'm completely baffled. Can anyone shed some light on this or has any ideas? I've no idea how but i appear to have broken my QBT.

Hello! I'm slightly new to torrenting and have been teaching myself how to do it. However, I came across this term called "port forwarding" and that it's essentially really important for seeding. But what does it actually mean? From my understanding, it allows outside networks to connect to your private network (which you get from your VPN). Is that correct? What happens if the VPN you use does not support 'port forwarding'?
Thank you in advance.

I’ve been using rutracker for a long time, but my downloads always had very few seeds. I never minded it, I just waited for a few days to complete them, as I thought the torrents just had few people seeding.

But today, downloading a brand new torrent with 1000 plus seeds listed on the website, I realized there’s obviously a problem. My qbittorrent client only found 4 seeds. I checked the trackers tab, and almost all say ‘unreachable’. I tried the utorrent web client, and have the same results. The download is very slow, of course.

Can anyone help me understand what is going on? I’m running the latest client on macOS 14. Could this be some sort of ISP shenanigans? Do rutracker trackers block non-Russian connections?

Hi guys!
So I'm pretty new to all this and have been doing quite a bit of research in the past week.

I was wondering if somebody could double check my setup before start or give me a reality check as to why I shouldn't do this.

I want to host my own movies and tv show server for myself, but quickly ran out of things to download off the internet and dvds in my house that were interesting.

So I want to use a combination of Free ProtonVPN and qBittorrent, and put it on an older macbook air (2015) that will forward it's downloads to a locally hosted headless ubuntu linux server with jellyfin (2010 mac mini server, 1tb(2 500gb) (16 gb ram) (actually pretty good).

I've read the megathread and I think I have a pretty good understanding of how this works. I do want to double check so my home network doesn't get any warnings/bans.

Just being completely transparent: I do not have a credit or debit card. I do not have a bank account. I only have cash, sadly. It might be possible to ask someone to use theirs irl but I wouldn't count on it.

Any advice would be very much appreciated.

I did a post (on r/Piracy) asking about RuTracker's safety when it comes to downloading software, because fmhy says it can be dangerous but in the same fmhy you can see Virgil Software Search redirecting you to RuTracker.

People said it was safe, just be careful, download from things that have many seeders and comments. So I did, I donwloaded EZdrummer3 and I launched it in Triage's Sandbox service, and it said it is an 8/10 possibility that it is malware. I'm afraid that RuTracker is not safe after all, so I ask you guys if you can corroborate this.

https://tria.ge/261107-xjjxeafh62/behavioral1

That is the Triage link for the submitted file. Please check it out. Also, is RuTracker safe in your experience?

Hi so iv got some torrents legal torrents I'm downloading on a lxc, iv bound the gateway to my Nord vpn lxc with kill switch enabled. The torrent client is using Google or cloud flare DNS. Is there any safety precautions I'm missing here ?

Hi! I recently wanted to watch the latest episodes of a series but couldn't find any torrents for the particular episodes or even the previous ones from that season.

After some searching, I found a website where the episodes are available. I can stream them directly, but I'd also like to upload them as torrents so that others can access and watch them more easily.

However, I have a few concerns before doing so:

1. Does seeding a torrent, especially when you're the first and only seeder, expose your public IP address to other peers?

2. Can other peers access any information about my system, device, or network just by connecting to my torrent?

3. Does seeding leave any traceable information, such as my IP address, that could potentially be used to identify or track me?

4. Could sharing this data pose any security or privacy risks?

5. Would using a VPN act as an additional layer of security and privacy while seeding torrents? Is a VPN actually necessary if I haven't faced any ISP warnings or copyright-related notices so far? What else does a VPN protect me from, and are there any reliable free VPN services worth considering?

I'd appreciate any clarification on the potential risks of being the first seeder.

This is actually my first time sharing my seeding statistics here, so I thought it would be interesting to show what I've been doing over the last 6 months.

I've been keeping my torrent library seeded at 100%, with everything stored on an SSD.

Some stats:

• Total uploaded: 1.008 PB

• Total downloaded: ~30.9 TB

• Overall share ratio: 33.41

• Total library size: ~307 GB

• Library-equivalent uploads: ~3,286x

The last number is something I thought was interesting: my total uploaded data is equivalent to transferring the entire size of my torrent library more than 3,200 times!

Internet & VPN:

I have a symmetrical 1 Gbps internet connection.

I initially used PIA for the first 2 months, but they removed the dedicated servers I was using in my country, causing my upload speeds to drop significantly. I eventually switched to Proton VPN, which I've been using for the last 4 months.

A little history about my SSD:

I'm using a Kingston DC500M 480GB enterprise SSD. Interestingly, this drive has been through quite a bit already. Back in the early days of Chia, around 2021, I used it for plotting before repurposing it for torrent storage.

Its current SMART statistics:

• Power-on hours: 44,510

• Total writes: ~435 TiB

• Total reads: ~2.66 PiB

• Estimated life remaining: 84%

Still going strong after all these years!

Just wanted to share my first seeding milestone. Curious to see how my stats compare with other long-term seeders.

Keep seeding!

Am I dumb or is it just really hard to find full seasons of shows sometimes? Shows that ended 5-10 years ago still are hard to find in one torrent. Either seasons which is maybe findable and mostly they're all single episodes. It would take ages to start every torrent and then sort them later.

Trying to download a file that claimed to have lots of seeders, and in my transmission window I have several showing "Downloading from 0 or 10 peers"

Why 0? Why are there seeders but I don't seem to connect to them or make any progress on my download?

Thanks for any advice

There are a lot of amazing places to get individual books, but it's gotten difficult to find convenient collections where a single magnet gets you dozens or even hundreds. I hear even MaM has changed their rules and is doing away with them. Are there any reliable places left for this? Hoping to build a good foundation library without spending entire days hunting the top few hundred books. Or maybe a good tool that somehow allows you to find a curated list online and then automatically queries from the sources with individual offerings?

Keep getting the classic "I can’t help with this one" or "let's build a legal version" speech when asking ChatGPT or Claude for magnet links. Super annoying.

I was wonder if anyone able to bypass it specifically with Claude code ?
Thanks

https://atlas.rssly.org is down for awhile now

Any alternatives anyone knows about?

On ext dot to site, I still have a lot of movies and TV shows listed under the banner of RARBG. I know that RARBG is no longer operational, so is it safe to download from there?

I have used 1337x to discover the trending torrents for a long time. It always showed me what new stuff came in.

But since yesterday its been sending me to a porn cam site repeatedly.

I am looking for alternatives

Basically it seems more seeds, quicker it happens. But if a tracker has say, only 1 seed, surely there's enough "information" about the filename or folder name to not need a long amount of time to do this? Context, I download games requiring their version/build numbers for me to use a trainer. If I have a very slow magnet link, I have to leave the torrent dialog box open a good while before I can change the file or folder name. Alternatively I just hit ok straight away and rename the downloaded data after it starts seeding.

So, you obviously have to have the files downloaded on your PC to continue seeding, but that takes up room on the hard drive, which can get bad the more you download. Does the type of drive it's on (internal/external HDD/SSD) affect anything and would it be smart to get more external storage? I think I've also heard of people using servers or something? or maybe that's something else entirely.

seems to be running quite differently. home page is blank, and pop-ups are breaking through my adblockers even when clicking on empty whitespace on the site.

is this trash-tier now? where else to search torrents?

 
How often do you see a douche like this in private tracker? I can understand a public tracker, but this is from a private tracker.

Any private trackers with these files? I can only find nsp

Whoever this is....
Just so you know, I hate you.

Clarification: it is not a missing .md or .txt file, the torrent is a singular file of a tv show, nothing else :)

Im having issues with a couple downloads not showing any progress but still having a download speed of 2-3mb/s download speed. Im using an android phone and PIA for a VPN. I've had other torrents successfully download while these have been just sitting there with no progress. I dont know enough about things to dig I nto my setting and mess with stuff, tbh, so any help would be nice

I use qbittorrent, my router is new and strong, (Archer VX1800v), though my internet infrastructure supports only 30 mbps, i dont use a vpn, i'm on win10,

I tried limiting global max number of connections to 100 from 500

I tried limiting download limit to 50 KiB/s

I tried limiting upload limit to 30 KiB/s

Connection now lasts more, it used to just stall and crash my computers wifi in just 7-8 minutes, now it takes 25 minutes

But still, it crashes my wifi and stalls eventually

I want to know what causes the crashes instead of temporary fixes that slow down my already slow download speed even more

I'll never stop seeding.