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Maybe one day ProtonVPN will fix their port-forwarding for their configuration files, I haven’t seen anyone else complain about this and their support is oblivious that this function even exists.
For people wondering the Learn More link just tells you what port forwarding does.
Looking at the docs, it seems like that toggle enables UPnP, so the rest of the setup should be on the torrent client to announce that it needs an external port, and the VPN and torrent client should handle things from there. Maybe you can lookup the docs for your torrent client and see if there's anything extra to use UPnP?
Friendly reminder that seedboxes are definitely worth it. Go for a seedbox if you can afford it
And join private trackers, quality is better and you pretty much get seeds all the time.
I have a great seeding record, but cant find any private trackers to join....
Where do i start?
i only re-started my torrenting activities in the last few years since the streaming landscape has become a hellscape
I love seeding.
tragedy of the Commons, with external pressure to boot.
All my torrents seed for a bit but then remain in "queue" forever.
Sorry guys but I'm living out of a 500GB hard drive. Anything that I'm not using regularly gets purged.
Is it possible to obtain stats what seed ratio you need to get to on average for a torrent not to die?
It really depends on the tracker in use. I tend to stick to private trackers, so I feel relatively safe stopping seeding at a ratio of 2-3. For public trackers, your ratio would have to be pretty dang high because most people stop seeding on those.
There are clients with a "stop seeding" button that works prior to finishing the download. Just sayin'. Still seeds while it's active, but stops right after.
This is how you end up with a 99.7% completed gzip of bob Dylan's entire catalog and have to restart on a new, uncompressed stream that's 10x larger
Fortunately the significantly improved download speed from the 6 heroic always-online seeders mitigated your concerns somewhat. But where were they before?