Being "connectable" with a private tracker

EustratiusEustratius
edited April 2014 in P2P Support
I'm using a private torrent tracker and utorrent.  I have two questions:

1.  I've been reading indications that using the proxy via utorrent does not leave you connectable, meaning you cant really upload.  Is that still the case?

2.  Assuming #1 is true, I've been using the VPN application but still finding that, in practice, I'm not connectible.  The lights in the torrent app indicate everything is alright, but when testing with a popular torrent I'm only showing about 1kb/s/user trying to download.
My assumption is that I need to setup port forwarding via the VPN app, which I did.  I chose the CA Toronto server, got the number for its port and put that into my torrent app as the port to use.  However, still no good.  Also, for testing purposes, I've done all this with the firewall turned off.  Any ideas?

Thanks.

Comments

  • nmrmannmrman
    Sometimes it takes a while.  How long did you wait. You seem to be doing everything right and I don't know why you have trouble. You don't need the firewall turned off, you just need to add exception to uTorrent. 
  • EustratiusEustratius
    You might be right.  Checking via the private tracker it does show that I'm connectable now, despite not having anybody downloading from me.  I suppose thats the problem with having 50 downloaders and 7k uploaders for a file :)
  • VPNVPN
    1. You can not accept incoming connection via the proxy, the proxy protocol doesn't support it.
    You can still upload - I seed torrents all the time with outgoing connections (your torrent client should show you if a connections is incoming or not). It's just that peers can't tell you they need files, you need to wait for the tracker to tell you about them. That can take a while, though it should usually be at most 30 minutes.

    2. If you're using port forwarding, then you should be good to go. I honestly can't tell you if your experience with slow uploads is worrying. I think we get about equal amounts of people reporting success and people reporting "no uploads".
    If you want, create a torrent with random data, post the magnet link here, and we'll try to download from you.
  • EustratiusEustratius
    Splendid idea!  Here is a magnet link for a linux distro or something
    magnet:?xt=urn:btih:C224BC041D617DB0335E472FD9C177557F5DBE52

    Please let me know what kinds of speeds you get.
  • VPNVPN
    Transfer started a minute ago. Looked like port forwarding on 20695 was working, I was connecting to you. You do use uTorrent 2.2.1, correct?

    I'm seeing varying speeds, with a maximum of about 6mbit/s, but only occasionally. Rough estimated average might be 2mbit/s, but it dipped lower a lot. As you might see from my IP address I'm in Europe, but I thank you for not disclosing anything about it. I'm seeing a CA server IP address from you.

    I'm pausing the transfer cause I got some other stuff to do at the moment. Might resume it later. Let me know a time if you want to observe the transfer from your end, but don't make it before 14:00 (2pm) on the 11th (GMT).
  • EustratiusEustratius
    Yes, thats my torrent client and version.  Thanks for the help, just knowing I'm connectable and at good speed is good enough for me.
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