I am presently having issues with downloading. As an example, I am downloading at this time a TV series episode which in the client shows 63 of 109 seeds and 23 0f 63 peers as active. In three hours the file completion is less than 2%. The file is only 5.7 GB. I have a VPN with port-forwarding and always update any port number changes in the client. Just to test things, I downloaded a new, popular TV series torrent with 5400 seeders and over 3000 leechers and the download rate is 7kb/s which is the same as the previously mentioned torrent. I get my torrents from 1337x, lime torrents, pirate bay, extra torrents and torrent downloads. I use Deluge for TorrentDay downloads as it seems to work quicker. I thought Deluge might be interfering with qBittorrent so I uninstalled it but it made no difference. I've used qBittorrent for many years and this issue with downloading never occurred until after I first installed Deluge (which is now uninstalled). I disconnected my A/V software (Kaspersky) and I also disconnected my VPN to see if that would make a difference but it didn't.
Any suggestions or recommendations would be appreciated. Thanks.
[SOLVED] torrent downloads
Re: torrent downloads
Problem solved. I noticed a blue circular icon, next to the Connection Status icon, that switches to an alternative download speed. It had a red vertical mark through it. When I clicked on it the red mark disappeared and the download speeds changed from KiB/s to MiB/s.
Thanks to anyone who was remotely considering lending assistance.
Thanks to anyone who was remotely considering lending assistance.