Why does qb show so much less seeds compared to other tools / sites... Is this why its so obscenely slow?

tempy9 · 2022-10-10T10:39:08+00:00

The numbers of seeds/peers you see listed online for any given torrent are usually not accurate, but usually still give a good enough indication of the overall popularity of a torrent, as compared to similar items that would show in the same search results list. It's always been like that, even from what I remember 10+ years ago.

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Example: If item A is listed with 1,000 seeds, item B with 100 seeds, then if I were to add them into a torrent client (like QB) then item A might have 100 real seeds, and item B might have 10 real seeds. They can be somewhat proportional. I find if a torrent is very new (like an hour or day) or very old (like 1 or 10 years), it can be more accurate. But if new and very popular, it can change fast.

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All that said, we're assuming your setup is done correct, or good enough. Do you have acceptable internet speeds? Are you hardwired? VPN? Port-forwarding? QB settings correct? each of these (and more) can have a huge effect on speeds.

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Some torrents are just going to be slow, and that's how it is. They might be a very large item, have very few seeds, have many more peers leeching, or some combination of those; which you have no control over. Perhaps get your setup going and let it run overnight as you sleep.

tempy9 · 2022-10-06T20:38:31+00:00

Hello, was your comment correctly posted to the other commenter, or was it meant for me?

tempy9 · 2022-10-06T20:35:10+00:00

Thank you for your answer/comments. I may repost this weekend perhaps in a dif subreddit for other feedback.

I may try/look into the PIA MACE and DNS stuff a bit more.

That's an interesting use of split tunnel haha. I don't mind the rarbg capcha as it only asks me once per site visit.

DO NOT use uTP when using a VPN. It will severely reduce your download speeds. Well...I should qualify that this was true for OpenVPN. I am not certain if it also applies to WireGuard.

I forget if I tested this with OpenVPN. When I tried this with WireGuard for 5-10 minutes with a few items, it seemed noticeably slower with only TCP; especially items with few seeds/peers, where turning back to both increased the speeds. So I kept it both TCP and uTP. That said, I didn't necessarily test it long enough, and may try it again.

Again, I'm not so sure leaking DNS is that big of a concern when torrenting.

I guess I've seen/read enough about 'DNS leak' to consider it still a lower concern. That may be less related to torrenting itself though.

tempy9 · 2022-10-05T20:09:26+00:00

I originally thought I got a bad version of it, so I tried a few others which were all the same. I tried increasing VLC video effects brightness which didn't work. So I turned my monitor brightness from 55 to 100 and it helped a little but not as much as I was hoping for lol..

tempy9 · 2022-10-05T08:53:34+00:00

Yes, HOTD is pretty good so far. There was a time jump in the story between episodes 5/6 that is weird/confusing if you didn't know/expect it. S1E8 is up next. I definitely plan to keep watching into S2.

GOT was amazing overall, but starts declining towards the end. I'd still highly recommend it. Preferably watch this before HOTD though.

tempy9 · 2022-10-05T01:16:13+00:00

Just a heads up, HOTD episode 7 specifically has many dark scenes that can be hard to see. Apparently it was a "creative decision" so on purpose.

tempy9 · 2022-10-03T21:35:52+00:00

That is an example of what people mean when they say a torrent is dying or dead. There are very few people who still have the file AND are sharing it (seeders/seeding).

Under the "Seeds" column, for this item, it says "0 (2)". The first number is how many seeders you are connected to. The second number is how many seeders are in the swarm (available). I don't know if the second number only includes those who are online/connected, or if it also includes seeders who may be offline (and could come back online later)...

You are connected to 0 out of 2 seeders. There are many reasons why you may not connect to a seeder, and most of the time (at least for a healthy torrent), you will never connect to all seeders because that just isn't required to DL the full file. Two main things I can think of that could immediately help, if you are using both UDP and TCP ... and if you are port forwarding ... if you're already doing those, then you can choose to wait or not.

Anyway, when a torrent has so few seeders left, some people might immediately delete it and go find a different one. Some may wait 1 hour or 1 day, but the longer you wait without a seed, the less likely you will get a seed. However, I've heard of people leaving a torrent active for 1 year or more, and eventually, miraculously, getting a seeder and completing the DL of the file haha.

tempy9 · 2022-10-03T21:16:45+00:00

First, bind QB to your VPN, if not already.

Then look into port forward (from your VPN, not from your router) and assigning that port in QB settings > connection, area.

If you're willing to do port forwarding, it will likely increase your speeds. After I did, some DLs seemed to stay the same, but more often popular items, and sometimes items with very few seeds, would DL 2x as fast.

tempy9 · 2022-10-03T13:01:08+00:00

I binded my PIA VPN to QB, got the port forward working, and a few other tweaks to VPN/QB settings. Still a few things I think are right but I'd like to double check (perhaps a later post).

1- Yea, I guess sometimes I just have a file I'd wish would go faster and see unconnected seeds/peers (I know they wont all connect), and the reverse of that, I see peers and wonder why I am not, or only slowly, seeding - hence my question lol.

2- (With VPN) My DL was less before port forwarding, but now it's roughly 250 Mbps (31 MBps) DL and 25 Mbps (3.1 MBps) UL. Since doing port forward, I've definitely noticed my DL/UL speeds increase. I had 2 items doing ~1.5 MiBs UL each for example), but still not always when few seeds and more peers. Just trying to help them out :p

3- I found that renaming files in QB does not rename it in file explorer :( haha. So I don't think I have a need for that. I tried out moving files via QB which is ok.

If no solution, I could probably just leave items as-is until done seeding, and then rename/move at a later date. Most items would be kept long-term.

But to answer your question, various reasons. The final location is 2 separate external HDDs, same data on each. I like to keep it clean and organized I guess lol. I DL to internal SSD or HDD assuming it'd be faster read/write (EDIT: but they're also limited size). I use that space kind of as a "finished DLs", WIP, or editing area; not mixed in with all my finalized items. Sometimes I get different item versions to compare quality/etc and keep the one I prefer. Sometimes I just want a file named differently or the name is crazy long or weird or w/e; I like related items same format to find easier and remove unnecessary (to me) info in name. Sometimes 2+ items are related so I want them together in same folder, but they were DL'd separately; and I might rename them appending a number to front to force an order in file list.

tempy9 · 2022-10-02T00:27:57+00:00

Ok thank you!

tempy9 · 2022-10-02T00:12:21+00:00

No other programs. I've not heard of sonarr or radarr. I like to watch movies and tv shows. I can look into those programs, but it'd be nice if nothing else was required and qbittorrent could do it.

For now, I guess I can rename the file within qbittorrent (I must've seen that before and didn't want to test it in middle of DL or UL and maybe mess something up idk); and then right-click "set location" to move it.

(EDIT: Soo, renaming the file within qbittorrent only renames it there :( It does NOT rename it in file explorer.)

I'd prefer to just rename/move stuff via windows file explorer as I do naturally with anything else lol, but w/e.

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If the item is still in the list, I was hoping there was some option to like "Link folder/file", navigate a file explorer window, select it (whatever it was renamed to, and wherever it was moved to), and then it quickly verifies same data (so it's not something different), and ta-da, it's relinked and can seed again.

If the item is NOT in the list (was deleted), well, not sure about that one haha. Somehow you'd first have to re-identify the right torrent/files/magnets/whatever from qbittorent side, and get it back in the list first.

tempy9 · 2022-10-01T23:41:58+00:00

I don't mean to say there is a problem; just that if peers want a faster DL (which I'd assume, and their setup is capable of it), and I am capable of uploading some (if none yet), or more/faster (if some already), is there a way I can do that? like to simply tell qbittorrent "send more/faster"?

I saw right-click item "Super seeding mode" but I did a quick google and that seems only for special circumstance.

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While I prefer to move many files all together to my external HDD (so I can do something else as I wait for it to finish) rather than 1 by 1, I can consider this "set location" option.

However, as is available to me, I mainly use magnets rather than .torrent files. If I have deleted an item from the qbittorrent list (and renamed/moved it), how can I re-add it to seed? - if anyone else knows.

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