Correct settings for Dime

[teledyn]

I've had this problem with ktorrent and transmission, which prompted me to switch to qbittorrent (way better imho) but the issue persists: I have many torrents running fine off other trackers, but with my Dime torrents, I can download, but my machine doesn't upload anything at all, and that is suspicious. I even upgraded my router, which supports UPnP, and whatsmyip.org tells me the randomly-chosen port is fine.

Since other torrents work, it is unlikely my ISP is blocking torrent traffic, and the machine I use behind the router firewall is not blocking, iptables shows accept-anywhere from both tcp and udp.

How can I further debug this? As a result of the block, my Dime ratio quickly got me banned from downloads

[Peter]

Don't use UPnP. It's always been poop. 50-50 it works and then it won't.

1) Just set a static IP.
option A) In your network settings on your PC, notice your IP address, gateway, and netmask. Go into your IPv4 settings, and set an IP address from the same range; use the same gateway and netmask you just saw.

For example.
It shows this:
IP: 192.168.1.103
Gateway: 192.168.1.1
Netmask: 255.255.255.255

If you see this, set a static address, like so:
new IP: 192.168.1.15
Gateway: 192.168.1.1
Netmask: 255.255.255.255

You can also pick a DNS here (or you must pick one).
Pick one of these, or you can even pick two.
https://www.quad9.net/
https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/dns ... s-1.1.1.1/
https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns
https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html

Once you set that, go into your router setting and set up a static port forward to this IP. And use the same port in your qBittorrent.

option B)
In your router setting look for "DHCP" and there is a "static DHCP" usually, where you can assign your PC's MAC address to always get the same IP. Same idea as your PC's Windows settings, could be even better than Option A). Pick an IP there. Then set up a static port forward the same way.


That's it. This should fix you.

Also, ratio on trackers is stupid. People just abuse it, it makes 0 sense, that's why ratio-less trackers are having a boom.
The solution? Rent a seedbox.
We/I are not associated with them, but https://ultra.cc/ is a good one, I tried them, it's fast, solid. Just buffer your ratio up.
1) Either grab some popular free torrents and seed them
2) Or set up your RSS on the website in your seedbox torrent client, and "race". It'll continuously check the new torrents and grab them as soon as possible and you will seed to others real fast.

Seriously, ratio is stupid. Fixing your seeding is important, because this is how you keep torrents alive. But the ratio part? Forget about that. Because the things you might download, they might not be popular. You might only have slower internet. You might connect just too late. It's close to impossible to maintain a ratio unless you know how to do these tricks. Even with fiber internet, seeders will have 10, 20gbps connections lol. Good luck to get upload from that.