Few doubts about Avistaz
After reading the guides 2 -3 times, I still have few confusions and doubts about Avistaz.
- Majority of the people recommended that in the beginning, people should download freeleech content(the one with the star) to increase buffer. But, I downloaded 3 of them and when I left them for seeding even after 12 hours, I saw that none of them seeded even for 1 KB. So, how do I build up my upload buffer if I cannot seed only? Edit: Answer - I understand now that freeleech will help me accrue bonus points as long as I let it seed (even if it is not exactly seeding) and I can exchange the points for upload.
- After reading the guide, I understood that seeding doesn't exactly mean seeding, so in order to actually seed, it needs active leechers. So, I downloaded 2 files having 4 and 16 active leechers. After the download was over, still after 5 hours, not even 1 KB of data was seeded. So, what is that I am doing wrong? I know very well that I have atleast 20MB/s of upload speed when I seed non-private tracker ones. Edit: Answer - I understand now that even if the files show leechers it might be inactive leechers who don't have the full files, so it always doesn't mean I will be able to seed.
- Something weird I noticed was, in my profile when I go to active tab it showed correctly all the active ones, one of them was showing about 30 MB of upload, so I checked my client and that particular file was showing the same amount of upload as well, which means it did seed little bit. But due to a windows update I had to restart my laptop and when i again went to my profile page active tab, all the stats got reset and the upload changed from 30 MB to 0. Does this mean I will have to keep my client open 24/7 and cannot even shut down my laptop in order for the seeding stats to not get reset? Edit: Answer - This I found out that I need to check the history tab for total stats as the active tab will only show the latest active session stats.
- What approach do I use so that I can seed properly as I have a good internet connection but I am unable to seed anything and this in turn will cause me to not be able to maintain my ratio and in turn i will not be able to download more content? Edit: Answer - Basically I need to:
- Make sure that I try downloading as much freeleech as possible and accrue bonus points and then exchange them for upload
- Look for free downloads and double downloads so that they don't get added to my buffer
- Try to download fresh torrents as soon as possible as that can increase the likelihood of seeding
- Also, I am using Proton VPN and I had added the IP to my profile and I have port forwarding turned on in the VPN.
Things are quite confusing for me right now as I have never used private trackers and previously whenever I was seeding any content from public tracker, I barely faced this issue where not even 1 KB is getting uploaded.
Final Edit: Thanks a lot everyone for your replies as it cleared A LOT of things that I wasn't clearly able to understand!