% stand at 85% for me and most of my peers.

[blackguyza]

What does it mean when most of my peers' % indicate 85% and the rest are less? My download also stand at 85%.

[DreadWingKnight]

What is the availability for the offending torrent?

[blackguyza]

How to check for availability?

EDIT: Availability - 0.850. Will it ever be 1.0?

[DreadWingKnight]

Dunno if it ever will, but if it doesn't go up, you won't be able to progress any further.

[blackguyza]

Does it mean that all my peers have only 85% of the torrent downloaded or what?

[DreadWingKnight]

That's right. Only 85% of the torrent exists on the peers you're connected to.

[BlueDragon]

@blackguyza

Have a look at the file tab and you'll see the available files (pieces) in blue and the unavailable in red. If it's a "selective download" (collection) torrent it might make sense to get only some part of the files otherwise pray for a seed to appear after a while. That may happen in many days or even weeks sometimes... As long as you just wait it will not cost you much dl bandwith but you might want to limit the upload speed.

Also you might try to add some public trackers but if PEX/DHT is disabled you should rather forget about it anyway because the chances are very low to get some (old) seed.

The problem is that in these cases often people download 85% and wait and wait for a seed, while uploading 85% to the next ones which will do the same. Finally the first one will abandon and so the story goes on indefinitely if no seed is ever coming back.

[Switeck]

On that 1 stalled torrent, lower upload slots to 1, lower upload speed to 1 KB/sec, and set priority to LOW. This way, you're not giving new peers false hope while still waiting for a seed to show up.

...Then find another torrent elsewhere.

[BlueDragon]

@Switeck

Even if the # of upload slots remains on it's default value >1 and you limit the upload speed on a per torrent base to the minimum possible of 1 KB/s, interested peers might not remain interested for too long... (and of course by the way safe of waisting bandwith for a dead torrent) and well... lower priority to 'low'... lower than 1 KB/s will be difficult to beat anyway...