If the magnet link included trackers, your client will query those trackers to get a list of peers. Now your client has to find peers sharing that torrent to get the torrent metadata. When you click the link, your browser passes the link to your client. If you can suggest an explanation, I'd be very curious to hear it so that I can solve the problem myself next time.īeing a peer-to-peer protocol, there are many variables that can change from one moment to the next. I'm completely baffled by why they froze for hours, then started spontaneously in two separate batches. Well isn't that weird? I just checked again and the other two have now started and one of those two finished as I was typing these words. I'm baffled by why the other two DIDN'T start if I somehow inadvertently fixed my problem. I don't think I did anything to make those two start.

If the problem is at my end, what do I look for? As my edit indicates, two of my four torrents finally started downloading spontaneously shortly after I first posted, even though they'd been sitting there for hours stuck. The sizes for the four torrents are 300 to 500 MiB. I've had that happen many times over the years yet still successfully acquired the torrent's data. The numbers of seeds and leechers are both 0 in TPB but that's not unusual. I doubt my torrents meet your criteria of very small or no existing swarm but I don't know the terminology well enough to be sure. Unless you are choosing torrents with a very small or no existing swarm, the problem is at your end. Normallly, each torrent begins downloading immediately but today, my torrients seem to get stuck at the very beginning of the download process.

From my point of view, I find a torrent at TPB, right click, choose Copy Link Location, and then click on the paperclip in uTorrent/BitTorrent, and my torrent gets added to the list. Sorry, I may be using the wrong terminology.

(May 26, 2020, 15:26 pm)Moe Wrote: You do not download anything from a server with bittorrent.

Why wont utorrent download files