by Guest on 2026/02/23 11:15:32 PM
This is at least as much a Torrent protocol question as a Tixati one. Please bear with me.
I have been using Tixati for years but only recently started with DHT searches and channels. I immediately found a few CDs and TV shows I'd been missing and had some quick success, but now I have a set of torrents that follow the same pattern: usually no seeds and a few peers who are at the same completion level as me show up, I see a little traffic, then quiet - but watch for an hour or so and I see seeds that are 100% complete communicate but remain choked.
For comparison I tried the same magnet links on a seedbox using Deluge (nothing has made me appreciate Tixati more than a little time with another client) and the much higher bandwidth does not improve. Of course, the Deluge UI means I have to be eagle-eyed to even spot the seeder connection.
My guess is that Tixati is correctly showing the bittorrent data it finds, but the sole seeder is a ghost - choking everyone, or unreachable, or just an error in the network. Is this a reasonable idea? Is there anything I can try to get unblcoked?
by Guest on 2026/02/24 08:29:22 AM
There are very active bots that collect data about torrents. They pretend to be real clients, but status they report is fake. Take a look at their IP addresses. It is highly unlikely that someone would randomly download the same thematically unconnected torrents as you. So when you see 31.200.249.x, just add them to ignore list (or use the IP Filter for the whole subnet).
Otherwise, multiple peers that have the same incomplete data set usually mean that none of them can connect to any seed. Or there is one, but much slower than the rest of peers. Some seeds are overloaded, and only upload a tiny bit of data once in a while. It might not be an old torrent, someone could have left a day or a week ago. The only solution is to wait, and keep those torrents running. After a month or a year you can stop. You can also try to find alternative sources for those files, and put them into the torrent, or alternative options. Some types of data are outdated, e. g. you can't expect people to share old AVI rips today.
