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
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    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.

  • 0x4E4F@infosec.pubEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Depends on where you got the torrent, but those seeders might actually be just wrong reports by the tracker. It has happened to me as well. I’ve left torrents for months just to see if it will eventually start downloading… nope, just sitting there, idle.

    Can’t say what the real reason behind this is, but my best guess is some bots are reporting wrong info via DHT and/or the trackers. Why? Have no idea, your guess is as good as mine 🤷.

    • BurnerPhone867@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I added in more trackers by finding the same file on few other servers, that seems to have resolved it for one of the files I need. But not the second one. First one should be done now in 57 minutes. The other is showing it DLing, but the ETA is infinity lol

      • 0x4E4F@infosec.pubEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Is it actually downloading or just saying it’s downloading? Like, is the there some trafic downstream?

        • BurnerPhone867@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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          1 year ago

          the progress meter on File 1 is growing, so yes, but file 2 it shows the status change, and the down speed will max out at 304 B/s, then slowly taper off until it stalls, and then it spikes back up again.

          I wish there was a YTS server but for TV shows, it would make this easier

          • 0x4E4F@infosec.pubEnglish
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            1 year ago

            How big is the spike? If it’s in hundreds of KB, yeah, chances are it really is downloading something. If it’s in bytes, it’s probably dead, those are just sync packets most probably.

            YTS 🤨?

    • meseek #2982@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, be careful relying on status messages from trackers, most are actually not that reliable and may misreport. Have had it happen on occasion as well.

  • admin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    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.