Start torrent, clients loaded, removed, reloaded, repeat

[donelson52]

When I start a torrent, I get a list of many CLIENTS (ten or more full seeders) that show 0 data transfer, then they all disappear, then reappear, then disappear, and finally after a long time, start to send data

This is very frustrating and time consuming

What am I doing wrong?

[donelson52]

2017 iMac 27" 5K, 4.2 GHz Intel i7 Kaby Lake, 24 GB RAM, 1TB internal SSPOLARIS 4x NVMe SSD as boot volume, 4TB internal Crucial SATA SSD, Radeon Pro 580 with 8 GB vram, MacOS Monterey 12.x latest

[killemov]

What am I doing wrong?

Not mentioning the client app your using, but I guess from the follow-up post you use the MacOS version of Transmission.

2017 iMac 27" 5K, 4.2 GHz Intel i7 Kaby Lake, 24 GB RAM, 1TB internal SSPOLARIS 4x NVMe SSD as boot volume, 4TB internal Crucial SATA SSD, Radeon Pro 580 with 8 GB vram, MacOS Monterey 12.x latest

This may be a network issue, but it could be something completely different or benign. How long does it take for a torrent to actually start downloading? Is that about the same for all your torrents?

Is the term "clients" actually used in the interface? I think that should be peers.

[donelson52]

Yes, I did list Transmission 4.0.6 (38c164933e), but that got lost in an edit, sorry

Starting time, not counting 8k every now and then, takes 10-20 minutes of fits and starts, with seeder list repopulating often before settling down

I often see one main seeder giving 8k-64k for a few seconds at a time, alternating with 0k with all other 10-15 seeders showing full data available but 0k download

I am using a VPN set to Netherlands

After 20-30 minutes now the 3.5 GB torrent has settled down into one at 500k bps and one at 1-2 Mbps

A few minutes later and 3 other seeders now supplying data 200kbps-500kbps

[donelson52]

Seeder clients sample: Client
qBittorrent 4.0.4
-tT1890-
BiglyBT 3.7.0.0
Torrent 3.5.5
qBittorrent 5.0.1

only the first four of these supplies any actual data