Thread: My own .torrent wont seed

maybe try to make it a private torrent without placing it at some public trackers ? utorrent has such a feature :)

Originally Posted by Fractal

there is no need, just put the torrent at utorrent.

OK. I´m having some trouble setting up my old IBM T21. I´m hoping it spins soon. You will hear from me soon.

Originally Posted by bueN

Hi everybody

I´ve made a torrent in Vuze, and added a open tracker udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80
When adding the torrent, it loads perfectly and starts seeding. But sadly the speed stays at 0, even thought I have been giving the torrent to a couple of friends?
I´ve been playing around with different ports in my router, and yes: I am connectable!

Anyone knows what the problem can be?

Thanks

Out of curiosity, did you upload/register the torrent to the tracker? Also, many sites require that you also download the torrent file from the tracker in order for it to communicate with the tracker properly to connect to peers. Although, it is showing that the connection to the tracker is ok, that doesn't mean the tracker actually knows what file(s) are being connected to it and where to point others to connect to that file. With many sites, the torrent files you created in Vuze won't actually be able to seed the file. It is only used to upload the file hashes to the tracker and the tracker creates a new torrent file for the tracker. You then must download that newly created torrent file from the tracker and load it into Vuze/utorrent/etc. in order to seed the file.
If this is the case, when you open the new torrent in the client, point it's download location to the folder containing the files, ie E:\Utorrent Data, and the client will do a check. Once the check is completed the file will begin to seed and you should become connectable to your friends. Hope that helps.

Okay everybody. Now it seems to work. Maybe you could help testing? Vistalizator Torrent - btjunkie

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Big thanks to everybody
After installing a windows version of utorrent it works like a charm. Seems like transmission and Vuze are rubbish when it comes to uploading.