Transmission

OK, then I must have misunderstood that "Ask tracker for More Peers" doesn't actually mean "Ask tracker for More Peers". How was I to know?

When there are literally thousands upon thousands of peers and seeds, each, I would expect more than two to connect, so, to me, it seemed to be a reasonable ...

OK, I searched for relevant info and help, but there doesn't seem to be anything regarding my particular issue with this function.

1) With most files, once Transmission starts transfers, it frequently leaves me with very few or zero connected peers or seeds out of a good pool size actually ...

Is the torrent folder on the same partition / drive as the OS?

Before you run Transmission, load the folder in your directory tool, then run Transmission.
Do you get the same error?

Here is a closer look at the colour difference that may explain what I see.

The 100% files have dark progress bars.
The 55% file is dark and won't download.
The ~15% files are light in colour and will download.

I've not seen this happen before, so I am curious as to what is going on.

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Does anyone have any ideas as to what is going on with this torrent?

I have come across a problem with continuing some files even though they are not finished downloading yet.
(Yes, I know about "checkmarking" the files on and off, to restart them.)

I have a multi-file torrent that has some files 100% complete.
These files have a dark colour to their file list's ...

I also would like to have an absolute value to set as an upload limit, for the same reason given.

We have a strict bandwidth limit that becomes costly when running Transmission unattended. So long as we can do this, we can also control when we can loosen the reins and allow more bandwidth to be used.

Another reason to remove/block some peers is to get rid of selfish peers who have somehow blocked uploading to us, using Vuze and uTorrent!

I am working on a 7Gb file and have only downloaded a few hundred Mgs of data, while 200% has already been uploaded. I have set to only use encrypted peers ...