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I have Ubuntu Mate 16.04 on here but I can't seem to get any torrent software to work. They open, and sit there basically dead. I've tried several.
I don't understand port-forwarding yet, but I've never had to do anything like that before in any Linux distro I've tried so far. Any help I've found in interwebland has not.
Can somebody point me to help a relative newbie can understand?
Have you tried on a target you know is available? Some torrents are notional only. I have a fetch running that's 2 years old. I aimed at a target I had good reason to know existed to make sure it could work. I use transmission, http://www.transmissionbt.com/ , which records its outcome in $HOME/.config/transmission, as well as has a CLI version,my preference.
Some intermediates block all torrent traffic, such as at my public library.
Yeah sometimes the network providers do some kind of filtering. At my university they block torrents. But at my place, the same software with the same torrent file works perfectly.
transmission has a good wiki; most questions can be answered there i guess. https://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki...orwardingGuide
it is important to have open ports for incoming, but can work without.
check your firewalls (computer AND router).
try with a torrent that will definitely seed well. try a few.
it has happened to me more than once (!) over the years that i thought i had a network problem, when i just happened to have a bunch of obscure torrents with no seeders.
When you say they "just sit there", what information do they show? Do they give a number of peers and seeders when you request a download? Have you tried Ubuntu's own torrent, which is sure to be available? http://releases.ubuntu.com/16.04/ubu...158.1506700305
You could also try launching the torrent client from the command line and see if it shows any errors.
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Cannot get any torrent software to work at all
