Unusual problem (?)

[Eddie]

Having what seems to be an usual problem trying to download an old movie. The file size is only 687 MB. The torrent has one seed at 100%. Download has been active for several days but is only now at 7% complete. Average download speed is approx. 300 B/s. Sometimes jumps up to 700 B/s, but also drops down to 100 B/s, or drops to 0 and stalls. Otherwise, on better seeded torrents, there is no problem- the speed is smoking hot. I added more trackers but made no difference. Download speed is still excruciatingly slow. I also notice that the one seed disappears when I disconnect from Ethernet cable and go to wireless. (port forwarding is correctly configured) Reconnect to Ethernet cable and the seed reappears and starts crawling along again. Never saw that happen before. My only connection is with the one seed. There are two peers but not connected. So, even with just one seed, would it be normal to get an average download speed of 300 B/s? Anything else to try other than just waiting it out for the next 50 days? I thought the speed might pick up after a few days, but not happening.

[Switeck]

A bad seed may remain a bad seed no matter what you do.
If you don't connect to it via wifi, it could be due to the wifi's firewall.

Are there other peers or seeds on the torrent that even connect briefly?

[Eddie]

Thanks for the reply! No, only connected to the one seed but the connection is so tenuous that it comes and goes. I can see there are two peers, but not connecting with either of them. Not a firewall issue with the WIFI as all the other torrents work fine on WIFI. I just figured maybe it had to do with the tenuous nature of the connection that the one seed on that particular torrent disappears when the Ethernet cable to the router is disconnected. Anyway, its no problem to leave it on the cable. I just never ran into anything like before as everything else downloads lickety-split, whether on wireless or cable. When I posted this morning, the file was at 7% complete. Now at 7.3% complete, Lol

[Switeck]

Could be someone running multiple torrents on a 56k dial-up modem that changes ip addresses occasionally.
Or someone on low-end ADSL sharing 100's of torrents so your "cut" of their total upload is tiny. (Too many upload slots is worse than too few!)

[Eddie]

I think Windows 3.1 dial-up connection would be faster than this, Lol. I'll just keep it active for as long as it takes, thanks!

[Eddie]

As of today, I'm now connected to one peer, but no longer able to connect to the one seed. Still stuck at 7.3%. Got to be just an oddball torrent.

[Switeck]

Sadly, the default settings in most BitTorrent clients encourage this result when people run lots of torrents.