andelepues Posted December 26, 2005 Report Share Posted December 26, 2005 Merry Christmas. Save some cheer and compassion before you slam me for asking a question that EVERYONE already knows the answer. I've been using BT for about a week now. I have downloaded various items and then left Utorrent running to seed them. Everything was working fine so I decided to share some of my own files. I created several torrents and uploaded them to a large public site. I double checked the now uploaded torrents and found all the files and descriptions to be correct. I then downloaded "their" torrents and opened them in Utorrent. The first time through I checked off "don't download" the content of the files, Utorrent showed "seeding" under status and I waited for some customers. Nothing happened for an hour. I saw lots of peers, my offered material is recent and very popular, but no one was downloading from me. I then tried starting the downloaded torrents over with Utorrent and this time left them with the status "downloading" to see what happened. That sounded stupid but I thought that maybe you have to download your own material to start a seed. Nothing happened. I know today is a major holiday and maybe I am expecting instant results. Still, one of the albums I am offering showed over 500 leeches the other day for an inferior bitrate. Anyway, I want to make sure that I am doing the process correctly. Thanks.PS: maybe only the technologically impaired among us have problems starting a new seeding but I would sure like to see a detailed "sticky" on the process. Thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted December 26, 2005 Report Share Posted December 26, 2005 Did you use working trackers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andelepues Posted December 26, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 26, 2005 I got the tracker "http://tracker.prq.to/announce" from the website where I uploaded the torrent "http://thepiratebay.org/". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted December 26, 2005 Report Share Posted December 26, 2005 Edit that tracker URL out. =]Either way, I heard that that tracker isn't very reliable, and is often down. Try another one =P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted December 26, 2005 Report Share Posted December 26, 2005 Thepiratebay is always overloaded.>.>Try the beta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andelepues Posted December 27, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 27, 2005 It took a while, a long while, but I am finally able to share. The problem seemed to be where I was putting the files to be shared vrs where the torrent was. Once I put them both in the same folder I was able to start seeding. I love sharing my music since I feel I am giving back to the community that allowed me to download it in the first place. Thanks to everyone here who tried to help me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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