Can't Seed?

[dilema]

I revently downloaded uTorrent, it's kickass, only I have one problem. I created a torrent and it just wont seed. The availability also says 0.967. WTH is up with that? I am seeding my own torrent the availability should be no less than 1.0. Not to mention no peers can even connect to me. I DMZ'ed my box so all ports are forwarded. The tracker I am using is "working", so what gives?

Im connected to 1 peer and Im not sending a thing to him, anyone have any insight into this?

[tidyup]

I'm no expert but, Is it possible the .torrent you created refers to files you have moved or deleted from the location they were when you created the torrent? The peer not downloading issue is discussed http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=3767 and a few others, have a bit of a search around.

[Firon]

If YOUR torrent won't seed and you see your own availability as <1, it means that the hashes of your files don't match the hashes of the torrent, or you're missing some files.

[Switeck]

There might be ISP killing BitTorrent traffic interferance as well.

I've heard of numerous examples where people would finish a torrent but want to seed, but their ISP was instantly breaking the connection after the torrent finished downloading.

[Firon]

That wouldn't cause availability <1.000 when seeding your own torrent, but missing/corrupted files would.

[tidyup]

Dunno if dilema is still checking this topic, considering the original post was 17th Oct, prob gave up in disgust...

But while we're talking "cant seed" I have a question relating to seeding as well:

I'm seeding a torrent of my own creation, i have had a few peers connect and successfully (i assume) download it but i have noticed that seeds varies from 0(1) - i assume the (1) is me right? to 0(3) is it just people seeding my torrent inconsistently?

Also i have had peers 0(4) while i'm seeding and it took a long time to connect to any of them i looked around the topics and set the peer.lazy_bitfield = true and peer.disconnect_inactive = false and i think i'm connecting better but as most of the activity is late at night i'm not sure. Any other suggested settings to help connecting to peers?

Right now i'm seeding and µTorrent shows seeds 0(1) peers 0(1) any way to find out what the status of the (1) peer is?

Thanks any/all

[Firon]

0(1) is probably just you on both counts. And if the seed count varies, it's most likely people seeding inconsistenly, yes.

As for connecting to them slowly, well, make sure you're connectable. That's all I can think of... It's also possible that those 3 other peers had already disconnect/finished the torrent by the time you saw those numbers.

You shouldn't turn off peer.disconnect_inactive either.

[tidyup]

Thanks Firon