iceknight said:
A lot of the seeders are irritated with the "eat and run" people.
It's actually "
hit and run", not "
eat and run".
Stunts like that (seed till 99% completion then stop seeding) get you warned/banned/reprimanded on most private trackers, where coincidentally most people try to upload as much as they can (so much so that there's a 2000% seeder:leecher ratio on the site and there's like no way to upload anything short of uploading new content). It's only on crappy public trackers that everyone knows about where you find torrents where the seeder is this complete moron who does pull a stunt like that. And it is not a
day that you should be seeding, rather, it should be based on how much you uploaded vs. how much you downloaded, aka your ratio. A ratio around or above 1 is usually where to shoot for (where you upload as much as you've downloaded).
I've been seeding more often on a couple of trackers, and as much as I'm irritated by newbie hit and runners, they unfortunately have the effect of boosting your ratio as a result (tis simply the way bittorrent is designed to work), so I'm not really complaining.
My first answer would be to check your connection and your connectability. You need a forwarded port (not 6881-6889 though), and a better client like Azureus which will tell you the status for
each torrent instead of just saying yes/no period. Provided you have everything set up right, you're not with an ISP that filters BitTorrent traffic on purpose (then you might as well get used to Azureus cause that's the only client that really works well despite ISP filtering), and you have a healthy torrent, there's no reason why you should be stuck.
Also, having the client allocate file space in the beginning just makes things easier. Azureus has an option to zero the allocated space, etc. Best of all you can't ever run out of hard drive space without knowing it.
Edit: also, about the 99.9% part...your client randomly distributes portions of the file (aka seeding), so unless you're being an asshat and superseeding (which...is usually dumb, and is a complete misnomer), there is no way you can seed till a peer reaches 99.9% and be sure that there's not actually 100% of the file out there distributed among the other peers. Even if you turn on superseeding and seed till you reach a 99.9 you still can't do it, and you can't seed an incomplete file on purpose because that'll seriously mess with most clients and will show you as a leecher instead.
Edit 2: dear lord, bringing back a thread from 2003? lol
