General question about Utorrent

[frodisman]

Sorry to sound stupid, but when Utorrent is open and the DL says:

Seeds 0(2) Peers 3(7)

What does the 2 in parentheses mean? Does it mean 2 seeds but zero connected? If someone could straighten that out for me I'd appreciate it.

If I finish DL a file, am I seeding on my own or do I have to do something extra to seed? If I am seeding will I be in parentheses? I just want to understand so I can do my part in sharing.

[DreadWingKnight]

It means it thinks there's 2 there. The bracketed numbers are estimates at best.

[mobskatergt]

When you finish downloading the file you should automatically start seeding.. Whenever you open utorrent from then on your completed downloads will seed to other on there own.. You can make sure your seeding by checking your upload rate

[mrUicro]

Maybe the answers are the saame as I'm telling. But I always thought it meant

this:

If it says (0) 2 it means there are 2 people on the swarm (right word?) but there

are 0 people active. They might be paused or otherwise not participating.

I believe the 0 is more of a real time number where the 2 is left over from the last

scan of 'who's there' .. and I'm sorrry to say I'm too ignorant to know what does the

scan.

The nice thing about the 2 is that at least someone is potentially there to be involved. I believe that 1 of the 2 is YOU.

I got this from torrents where I was the only participant and saw something like

0 (1)

I'm just trying to clarify what I think the two posters already said.

[frodisman]

My other problem is that I'm seeding everything I DL. But my ratio is low at some places thus not letting me DL until I reach 0.50 ratio. How can I bump this up if people aren't DL what I'm seeding? I'm trying to help but I can't force anyone to DL what I'm seeding.