I have a download with about 47 peers, and I'm only getting 0.3KB/s. It used to be about 20KB/s a week or two ago, for the same number of peers.

I see under the trackers tab at the bottom of ktorrent, there is an option to add a tracker. Can I find more seeds for this torrent, or is there some other way I can speed things up? I have 1.10GB of 1.65 downloaded. I am behind a router, but the UPnP plugin is running and my other download is pretty healthy.

Running ktorrent 2.0.3 on ubuntu dapper.

Regards,
Jarlath

Are you sure those peers have what you need to finish your download?
It's not uncommon that your downloads get a bit slower at the end (not that much though).

Good point - I hadn't thought of that. I've just checked under the peers tab, and 18 of them have 100% of the torrent (and a score of 0, whatever that means). DHT has a red X for all peers ( although one peer had a green tick earlier today )

They are all 'choked' except for one and I have been snubbed by over half of them. They are using various clients (uTorrent, Azureus, Bitcomet, Shareaza etc..).

I'm not sure what the DHT signifies, but currently (all of today) the status of the download is either Stalled or Downloading. But when downloading, it's usually at 0.0KB/s, 0.3KB/s if I'm lucky.

This behavior is present with nearly all torrent clients (except the ones that "cheat") in an "unhealthy" swarm. Everyone needs a turn at downloading -- you've been choked, and your peers are probably transferring with someone else at the moment.

Thanks for that. I'm pretty new to this so that's good to know. I'll just leave the machine on for a the next week or two and see what happens. The ETA was 1 day and 12 hours, but thats gone up to 2 days 11 hrs now. Hopefully things will pick up over the next week or two.

Thanks again,

Jarlath

They are all 'choked' except for one and I have been snubbed by over half of them. They are using various clients (uTorrent, Azureus, Bitcomet, Shareaza etc..).

'Choked' column means they are choking you not vice versa. So, while you're being choked they won't send you any data. If you're lucky enough for someone of them to unchoke you, you should expect some data coming.

For torrents like this, you should be somewhat patient... BTW, are you uploading something? Peers will unchoke you more often if you upload to them.[/quote]

Because of the way I have my hard drive partitioned, when I download something, I usually have to move it to another partition, so I dont have many torrents seeded myself. Can I set up a seed with ktorrent? I'd like to seed my torrents from the new partition.

I see the option to add a torrent, but do I need to use a tracker in order for the seeders of the torrent I want to get access?

No; all you have to do is add (import) or start a torrent that is 100% downloaded, and you'll automatically start 'seeding'

That usually is irrelevant though, except on some public trackers. Just make sure you don't have your max upload capped to the point where you aren't contributing back a fair share to a torrent you're downloading (you should expect to download at the same rate you upload at)

Thanks for that jdong. Unfortunately, I never save the torrent files themselves. I used the "File->New" to generate a torrent, but I don't know how to upload it.

I tried doing it on mininova, but when I added it to my uploads, it just gave me some kind of announce error saying that the torrent wasn't registered or valid or something.

You need the torrent files. Generating your own torrent file for the same file does not work -- the torrent files are globally unique. Try to find the torrent files again, and work on saving them in the future

I tried importing the torrent and pointing to the location of the data, but instead of seeding, it started downloading? Then when I removed the download, the original files got deleted and I was left empty handed. What did I do wrong?