Sometimes, when I try to torrent using qBittorrent or Transmission, the search for metadata appears to take forever. What could be causing this issue?

  • amio
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    116 months ago

    If magnets, then there’s less info in the link itself (compared to a .torrent) and that needs to be located. If availability is shit, that will be hard/impossible.

  • hendrik
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    6 months ago

    Go to the connection settings and copy the “Port used for incoming connections”. Paste it into a service like: https://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports/

    If your port isn’t “open”, that’s your issue. You need to configure port-forwarding in your router or VPN client.

  • @Kanzar@sh.itjust.works
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    36 months ago

    Sometimes I paste a list of open common trackers into the details and it’ll fnd some peers that way. This is for public torrents only, ofc.