Trying to understand "Stalled" Status

BurnerPhone867@lemmy.ml to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com – 64 points –

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

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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.

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

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.

Vote 2 for the website being confusing.. their forums remind me of the good old days of utter contempt at questions being asked 😏

Nah the website displayed "seed/leech" numbers can be outdated or fudged (1337x is notorious for this) but the number you see in Qbit will be accurate, however those 9 seeds you see are either people without the complete file or people who aren't port forwarding because "you don't need port forwarding for torrents" and you can't connect to them.

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