torrent has 6 peers but not downloading Torrent has 6 peers but not downloading. Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property. What can I do to prevent this in the future? If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware. If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices. Another way to prevent getting this page in the future is to use Privacy Pass. You may need to download version 2.0 now from the Chrome Web Store. Cloudflare Ray ID: 66aa3b6a99290d2e • Your IP : 188.246.226.140 • Performance & security by Cloudflare. Transmission. Downloading from 0 of 0 peers and no torrent metadata. Downloading from 0 of 0 peers and no torrent metadata. Post by kiwi1996 » Mon Apr 06, 2015 8:15 pm. Hi, I am quite new to torrenting and I have spent a number of hours now trying to find the remedy to this problem. When I try and torrent something it says 'Downloading from 0 of 0 peers' and also that the torrent metadata is needed. I have tried downloading numerous different torrents. All with plenty of seeders and not to many leachers and good reviews. How to Add Peers in uTorrent. uTorrent is among the best and most popular torrent clients in the world. For the most part, it’s very intuitive and easy to use. And if you know a little about torrents, you’ve probably heard of peers and seeders. These are people who are currently downloading a torrent, helping you download it even faster yourself. In case you were wondering how to add peers in uTorrent, you should know that it can’t be done directly. But you can add trackers, which will add peers and seeders, resulting in faster download speeds. Read on for more details, and remember to always use a VPN when torrenting. What Are Peers? Torrent peers are the people currently downloading the same torrent you’re downloading. When they download a portion of said torrent, they help you download what they have already downloaded. Hopefully, that makes sense, if it truly isn’t complicated at all. Unlike peers, seeders are people who (mostly) intentionally share the torrent files they’ve already finished downloading. These help you even more because they’re sharing the whole torrent file with you. If you add torrent trackers, you’ll most likely (although not always) increase both the number of peers and seeders. You can find lists of torrent trackers online, but we’ll provide you with one later on. Make sure that you find the updated list of trackers. The one we’ll share is active at the time of writing (January 2020), but if you’re reading this in the future, consider finding an updated tracker list. How to Add Peers. As mentioned, you can’t add peers directly in uTorrent, but you can add trackers – which is basically the same thing. Adding trackers is really easy, just follow these steps: Make sure that you have updated or installed the latest uTorrent program suited for your operating system from the link. Launch uTorrent and start downloading any torrent. Right-click on the torrent while it’s downloading and select Properties from the dropdown menu. The list of trackers will appear at the top of this window. Open this list of torrent trackers, then copy and paste some trackers into the trackers field in the mentioned window. When you’re done, click on OK to confirm the changes. This will increase the number of peers and seeders for your torrent. Sometimes that number is insignificant, whilst other times you should see a great improvement. The result will be an increase in download speed, depending on the numbers. Additional Torrent Tips. Before you start downloading torrents, make sure of the following: Get a decent internet package from your ISP. If you want to increase the download speed of torrents and everything else, you can always get a better package. Of course, this will cost you. Better use a cable connection, rather than a wireless connection. An Ethernet cable connection will give you maximum download speed and internet signal, unlike Wi-Fi. Only download “healthy” torrents. You can easily determine if a torrent is healthy by looking at the number of seeders, and leechers. Seeders are the good guys, leechers are bad. A healthy torrent has at least a 2:1 ratio (e.g. 300 seeders and 150 leechers). Leechers are people who only download a torrent, without seeding it. Use trustworthy torrent sites. In my personal experience, the Pirate Bay and Rarbg are the best choices, at least at the current time. Step 5 deserves a section all of its own because it’s incredibly important. Always Use a VPN When Torrenting. Torrenting is illegal in most of the western hemisphere. If you live in the U.S. you probably know this already. Therefore, you should find a trusted VPN (virtual private network) service and use it if you’re downloading any torrents. Without a VPN, you’re more likely to be charged for pirating, i.e. breaking copyright laws. Be warned. The fines for this are quite hefty. Instead, why not spend several bucks every month and stay safe? There are many VPN services, not all of which are that great. We recommend using ExpressVPN or NordVPN. Both are very popular and trusted options. They have great encryption and value their users’ privacy. Also, they have many servers across the globe which offer great internet speed. What’s great about these VPN providers is that they allow you to use their service across multiple devices, without having to pay extra. Whenever you’re torrenting, make sure your VPN is active. This way you’ll stay under the radar at all times. Enjoy Fast Torrent Downloads. If you follow our advice, you’ll surely have a much better time torrenting than you did before. Always stay safe with a VPN, and don’t bother downloading unhealthy or sketchy torrent files. These may have malware too, but on trusted torrent sites that usually won’t be the case. When you’re done with your download, remember to seed the torrent so you can return the favor. Don’t be a leecher, sharing is caring. That said, adding more peers is sometimes impossible, usually on older torrents. We recommend that you download torrents as soon as they come out, or shortly after. If you want to watch a show from 20 years ago, you probably won’t have as many peers and seeders as you would for a more contemporary release. Have you ever added peers in a torrent? Why not share your experiences in the comments section below? Torrent has 6 peers but not downloading. Post by Gnildryw » Fri Jun 12, 2015 1:28 pm. Hi, I'm a bit of a newbie with all of this, so my attempts at googling a solution to my problem has come up with naught. Two days ago, all of the torrents I currently have "added" to deluge (about twenty) stopped downloading, even though there appeared to be seeders available (in the seeders collumn it says "0 (15)" for example). I managed to "fix it" though, by downloading another torrent (that had many seeders, 300+) and that seemed to kickstart the others and they continued to download. Yesterday and today though, the same problem occours - nothing downloads no matter what I do, and the "trick" of downloading another file doesn't work. I've tried pausing all of them, only starting one at a time, changed the order of the trackers, updated the trackers, forced a recheck, restarted the program (as well as the computer). Nothing does anything. Some of the new torrents I've added doesn't even "connect enough" to show me the size of the file (but other newly added torrents do, so it's not consistent). I've tried adding torrents from different sources (thepiratebay, kat, eztv). Usually I use magnet links, but I've tried downloading the torrent file manually and then opening it in deluge afterwards as well, that doesn't change anything. So, I'm a bit at my wits end here - does anyone know what I can do to try and get them started again? OS: Windows 7 Deluge version: 1.3.11 Libtorrent: 0.16.18.0 Antivirus: Avast. I haven't installed any new programs lately (though there was a bunch of windows updates two days ago - but that doesn't explain how the problem occoured, then got fixed, then occoured again). I share my Internet with my neighbour (who has the modem), so I don't know if they have made any changes that could affect this, but the Internet works without a hitch. Re: Torrents don't download even though there are seeders. Post by Gnildryw » Fri Jun 12, 2015 1:34 pm. It works again now - that makes no sense at all (unless writing a forum message is somehow connected by magic. hmm, doubt it). I was about to close the program (no use having it running if it doesn't do anything - and yes, I've had it opened for hours waiting to see if all it took was patience) and then saw that it had started downloading again. I'm so confused. Re: Torrents don't download even though there are seeders. Post by Gnildryw » Fri Jun 12, 2015 1:39 pm. Okay, somehting is deffinitely wrong. Some of the torrents finished quickly (and turned blue with "seeding" written on them), so I deleted those and the remaining torrents kept downloading happily. Then, just to check, I closed deluge and reopened the program. Now nothing downloads again. Please help. Re: Torrents don't download even though there are seeders. Post by Gnildryw » Fri Jun 12, 2015 1:48 pm. Re: Torrents don't download even though there are seeders. Post by Gnildryw » Fri Jun 12, 2015 2:00 pm. Re: Torrents don't download even though there are seeders. Post by Shryp » Fri Jun 12, 2015 3:32 pm. A couple things. First of all don't use EZTV anymore. They closed down back in April and scammers are using their site now. https://torrentfreak.com/eztv-shuts-dow . er-150518/ https://torrentfreak.com/eztv-disappear . er-150611/ The no incoming connections error is related to not having your ports forwarded correctly. It is probably something that needs to be done in the router, but it could be a firewall on your computer as well. You should uncheck that box for the random port for incoming connections and change it to a static number. They way you have it set up now it will pick a different number every time you restart it. You can set the from and the to to the same number. You only need 1 port. In general several people have had issues with the libtorrent version that shipped with the latest version of deluge. You could try to update that manually and see if that helps. There are links for 1.0.3, 1.0.4 and 1.0.5 in this thread. Just download the file and put the libtorrent.pyd in your c:/program files(x86)/deluge folder. It might work best if you are using the python 2.7 version which is different from the normal one. http://forum.deluge-torrent.org/viewtop . 12&t=50735. Re: Torrents don't download even though there are seeders. Post by Gnildryw » Sat Jun 13, 2015 11:50 am. Damn, I did not know about eztv - thanks for the info! What do you think changed all of a sudden? I doubt my neighbours have done anything new (although I can't know that of course without asking them - they're not very tech savy though). Changing the port to manual and choosing just one no. didn't make any difference by the way. I also tried making changes to the firewall settings (there was only one box that made sense to change, but that hasn't helped either). I'll try the libtorrent thingie. Re: Torrents don't download even though there are seeders. Post by Gnildryw » Sat Jun 13, 2015 11:58 am. Re: Torrents don't download even though there are seeders. Post by Gnildryw » Sat Jun 13, 2015 12:19 pm. Re: Torrents don't download even though there are seeders. Post by Shryp » Sat Jun 13, 2015 3:40 pm. It seems kind of hit or miss for people weather the new libtorrent works for people or not. That was why you made a copy of your old libtorrent file first. If it didn't work you could just delete the new one and copy the old one back. I don't know why deleting everything and starting over isn't working though. Uninstall deluge and then delete these 3 folders: C:\Program Files (x86)\Deluge C:\Users\