Obscure torrent: What seems like only seeder only connects for about a second, updating my "last seen complete" every 5 minutes or so, without transferring any substantial data. Thoughts? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 3 days ago by ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Sorry if this is a rookie question, but most of what I've downloaded over the last decade was nowhere near this obscure. I'd like to think this community could benefit from a corpus of Q and A, if this breaks rule 4, I'll gracefully accept if this post is removed.

I am downloading through Mullvad, which I know doesn't let you forward your ports. So I can appreciate that that seeder's settings and mine might not be super compatible.

Is there any flag or anything I can do to let the seeder connect at all, besides finding some other way to exit with port forwarding. Seedbox is on my horizon, but it is far out there.

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[-] tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 days ago

There's flags set in the torrent tracker that might be getting in the way here in combination with the port issue.

There might be a seed, but he can't forward ports.

The data getting updated from "last seen" is the tracker telling your client a check in happened from a seeder I believe.

Some trackers also won't play nice and tell the seeder about you properly if your client has a history of leeching perhaps. Enforcement of ratio etc.

You could try another client perhaps, but if multiple behave the same then you are not going to get anywhere. Perhaps try getting a temporary vps to torrent into and then pull from there. Seed boxes can solve many issues, just be mindful of cost over time.