Why do my torrents never download

The striking thing is how many end at that % mark, not the fact that many torrents never complete. I see quite a few that never complete, but at a percentage much lower. It seems odd to me that there would be so many other peers out there, and all of them unable to complete the download.  · I do a lot of magnet links, but suddenly it won't download torrents. A family member had been on my PC recently, but I don't think they screwed this up. It may have a simple fix, but I'm heavily medicated and can't focus enough to think of it. Most of my torrents just don't download; stuck at 0%. I've been downloading torrents on utorrent for many years, but since a couple of days now, most of the torrents I download just won't go past 0%. Some will either be stuck at 'connecting to peers' or 'downloading meta data' or just the plain old 'downloading', but it won't actually download.

Answer (1 of 6): Torrent is a peer to peer network. For a specific torrent to work there must be some peers to make it work(seeding). If specific file is showing 0. qbittorrent not downloading at all. Hello all, I've recently not been able to download anything using qBittorrent on my Ubuntu LTS system. I use Private Internet Access as my preferred VPN client. Whether I use the VPN or not, I cannot get any of the torrents to start. I've tried a variety of different search engines using the. shows issues, red is bad. If you don't have a healthy connection status, here are some tips: Turn on uPnP: Universal Plug n Play can usually fix most port-forwarding issues for torrent downloads, without having to screw around with your router firmware (a pain).It does need to be enabled both in your torrent client (shown below) as well as your router settings.

Answer (1 of 3): A2A. You can do elaborate google search for this answer and you will get a great insight into how the actual torrent works. Giving you a brief. If you get the torrent file but it does not start downloading in the torrent client after you add it, maybe there are not sources available or they are all busy. K views · View upvotes. my ISP does inhibit my ability to seed (however it appears as if I am seeding at the max limit I set, and it doesn't seem to affect my download speed) but it also showed no signs of limiting torrent connections at all since the test showed a MB/s test torrent download speed, it tested to see if torrent protocols were being throttled.