• saigot@lemmy.ca
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      3 days ago

      On private trackers thats pretty typical in my experience, if you’re getting that on public trackers and you see there are peers then you might not have port forwarding set up correctly.

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        3 days ago

        Trying to correctly configure port forwarding can be difficult though…

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          3 days ago

          Use a VPN with port forwarding. Every one I’ve ever used let me forward a static port, assigned from the account section of the VPN website, which I then entered into Qbit along with setting QBit’s network interface to the VPN so that everything stops if the VPN goes down.

          Im thinking most people’s issues arise from using something like NordVPN or Mullvad which don’t offer port forwarding.

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            15 hours ago

            My VPN does have port forwarding, but something I am doing in messing with firewalld or my router must be wrong because I can’t get open ports to verify. There are a lot of variables to be troubleshot.

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              12 hours ago

              I can’t get open ports to verify

              Are you referring to canyouseeme.org (or whatever the site is called)? If so double check that it’s using the correct IP address because the VPN will have a separate IP then your standard WAN IP which is whats displayed by default on the page. Test it by downloading their test torrent and running it in QBit