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    Can someone explain why i can't connect to the seeds in swarm? or better yet how can i connect to them or at least more of them? if there is 1000 seeds, but i can only connect to 5 of them wtf? there's still over 900 seeds out there i should be able to connect to. why can't i? how can i? what's the deal with those seeds?

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    give it time and it will connect to more seeds
    and you can change the settings in your torrent client: max amount of connections/peers etc

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    Also for best results make sure you are connectable. Ussually anytime your client announces to the site it SHOULD pickup more peers. So sometimes if you do a manual announce now and then it will help a bit as well.

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    increase your per torrent and global connection limits. If you left them at default then they're pretty low for any bt client.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mr. nails View Post
    what's the deal with those seeds?
    if it's a torrent from a public tracker, those peers could very well be faked.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Submission View Post
    increase your per torrent and global connection limits. If you left them at default then they're pretty low for any bt client.
    i don't see how that would help. it sounds as if it would, but as of now there are like 1500+ seeds and i'm only connected to 25 of them. default global is 200. lol, i can't even get half of that.

    Quote Originally Posted by Melvinmeow
    do a manual announce now and then
    how do u do that with utorrent?
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    Quote Originally Posted by mr. nails View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Melvinmeow
    do a manual announce now and then
    how do u do that with utorrent?
    right click on the torrent you want to manual announce, select "Update Tracker"

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