muay Posted December 28, 2007 Report Share Posted December 28, 2007 hi all new at this so here goes. i have been downloading things fine for about 4 weeks. then today ive was downloading something and its got to half way and just stopped dead its now just seeding the file and not downloading. it says it has no seeds yet theres a fair few peers. anyone any idea. thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewelisheaven Posted December 28, 2007 Report Share Posted December 28, 2007 If by stopped you mean still "downloading" status but no longer downloading you are probably bottlenecked on the torrent. Checking the General tab are you at the same availability as on the total availability (bottom bar)? If there are no seeds the torrent cannot be completed. If however the seed is masking as a peer you may slowly see the rest of the peers slowly increase % as more pieces are distributed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muay Posted December 29, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2007 the availability looks the same on top as on bottom apart from the bar on bottom has a red back ground and one on top has white if that means anything. the peers are all stuck at 52% like me. should i just get rid of this torrent do u think. thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajones81 Posted December 29, 2007 Report Share Posted December 29, 2007 If the availability is 0.52 and everyone's stuck at 52%, then either you pray for a seed to show up, or get rid of the torrent. If it's something I really want, I tend to just stop it and restart it off and on and keep my fingers crossed (have managed to finish a few torrents this way even months later, and when they did, 'twas time to party! ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muay Posted December 29, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2007 thanks think i will just get rid not something i need anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted December 30, 2007 Report Share Posted December 30, 2007 If it's something stopped dead, I tend to set it to LOW priority, and set its individual upload slots to 1 and upload speed to 1 KiloBYTE/sec...then leave it running. Usually by then my ratio's something ridiculous, like 5+:1 download:upload...and since it's dead, I can't technically "leech" it till another seed shows up. I might also increase total active torrents and active downloading torrents by 1 to make up for this dead torrent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajones81 Posted December 30, 2007 Report Share Posted December 30, 2007 But Switeck, if you do that (cap the upload for that particular torrent), if I'm not mistaken won't the 1.8 line show that darn irritating "Download Limited" message? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted December 31, 2007 Report Share Posted December 31, 2007 ...It didn't do that in v1.7.5 and earlier but...Yes v1.8 alphas do that...and I'm of the opinion that it probably SHOULDN'T if you have other torrents that you are uploading faster than 6 KiloBYTES/sec on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajones81 Posted January 1, 2008 Report Share Posted January 1, 2008 I agree... Maybe the devs will change their minds and revert back to the 1.7.5 way of doing things... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted January 1, 2008 Report Share Posted January 1, 2008 No. The point of adding it was that people were using it to bypass the other anti-leech method. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted January 2, 2008 Report Share Posted January 2, 2008 (The limited message was moved into the Transfer tab anyhow, so it's not really annoying to see either) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajones81 Posted January 2, 2008 Report Share Posted January 2, 2008 Oh well... Anyway, if it has been moved out of the way then that's good enough for me. Don't mind as long as it slows down the hit-and-runners. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted January 3, 2008 Report Share Posted January 3, 2008 Firon,What settings do you advise using for stalled (stuck at some set percent) but ironically popular torrents then? New people show up regularly, so without some sort of limiting mechanism an inordinate amount of my upload speed on occasion gets spent on torrents that likely won't ever finish.I am currently seeding a couple torrents that might become unseeded were I to leave. They could degenerate into the same fast-then-stop stuck torrents without me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted January 3, 2008 Report Share Posted January 3, 2008 If you limit it to 1 kb/s, you would still get a maximum of 12 kb/s download from it. If the torrent is stalled (or going extremely slow) as you say, then that would be sufficient. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted January 3, 2008 Report Share Posted January 3, 2008 Good to hear!I thought that would limit ALL my downloading torrents to 12 KiloBYTES/sec total.There's times where I wouldn't mind getting 1 KiloBYTE/sec on a 'dead' torrent...even if it meant trading 10-to-1 to get it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewelisheaven Posted January 4, 2008 Report Share Posted January 4, 2008 Firon to be clear it will be 12x download under 4KiB upload in the 1.8 line thusfar, 1.7 will still limit all download under 6KiB global upload to be 6x the maximum? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted January 4, 2008 Report Share Posted January 4, 2008 No, 1.7.x did nothing about per-torrent upload rate limits. Leecher heaven! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewelisheaven Posted January 4, 2008 Report Share Posted January 4, 2008 Right, 5 or under GLOBAL in 1.7 shows limited, and in 1.8 THAT AND limiting any torrent set to 3 or under will trigger the limited. Mainly I was verifying the multipliers. It's not like this should be included in the manual, since it's not something the general public would need to be aware of. Only people intent on stiffing the swarm(s) they take part in would care. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted January 4, 2008 Report Share Posted January 4, 2008 Good to hear!I thought that would limit ALL my downloading torrents to 12 KiloBYTES/sec total.There's times where I wouldn't mind getting 1 KiloBYTE/sec on a 'dead' torrent...even if it meant trading 10-to-1 to get it.No, it is per torrent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted January 5, 2008 Report Share Posted January 5, 2008 More than fair, Firon....I was just restating the reason why I was worried (I misunderstood what it was limiting). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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