I've seen Cold Storage, it's fun. (It's not horror at all) Enjoy it!My current lineup:
You're just downloading a bunch of dead torrent files, which can be common. Only once Metadata has started downloading do you have a torrent someone is actually seeding.
Torrent files are very helpful. It has all the metadata and trackers that would otherwise take forever to fetch from just the magnet link if it’s a dead torrent
Watched it a few days ago on my treadmill (which I've been away from as I had to crash at work due to the weather). It's more horror than Bloody Axe Wound, which is just a paint-by-numbers teen romance with a gimmick, so it counts in my book. At this point, you can just read the character description "retired military man called back into action for one special case" and just assume it's Liam Neeson. There are certainly worse things to be typecast as.
I started magneting rather than downloading individual torrent files because so many of the ones I downloaded were dead. If something is stuck in "downloading metadata" for more than 15 minutes, I usually delete it from my queue. I've let some sit for hours. What would you say is an appropriate about of time to wait before assuming it's just dead?
Sometimes I leave it for days, hoping someone will seed it. But usually if it doesn't immediately provide metadata, delete it.
So is finding one that works just a shot in the dark? Is there a way to know without magnetting it if anyone's actively seeding? A torrent with with 700+ seeders won't even download. Maybe I just have shitty luck.
They are very helpful when you want to download just a few files from a really big torrent and don't want to wait for it to load the file list.
Isn't torrent metadata primarily pulled over DHT? Make sure you have that enabled and working? I download a lot of hard to find classic cinema. It definitely can take a few minutes, but even old, nearly-dead/dead torrents usually return metadata for me in under 15 minutes. I usually keep DHT/PeX/Local discovery off unless I need them.
I'm using Proton VPN bound to qBittorrent. Not sure if that info is of any use. I know Proton has a guide to piracy on its site.
I use Protonvpn with Deluge and qBT, so I don't think it's a matter of the software going through the VPN. I've got netshield off, port forwarding off (i've never really understand that option), Wireguard as teh protocol, and vpn accel on.
You want to have port forwarding set up with ProtonVPN and QBittorrent. Otherwise you're going to be firewalled and that limits you to connecting to peers that have port forwarding enabled. A flame icon in the QBittorent status bar will indicate you're firewalled. If port forwarding is working, then it will change to a green globe icon.
should port forwarding be done through the vpn or through the router?
That happens to me from time to time. Double checking the port, then restarting the program usually works for me. I'm using Proton slaved to Qbit.
If you're torrenting through a VPN then port forwarding should be set up with your VPN. You don't need to touch your router settings in that instance.
A few things to check:
I got the globe icon to show up:
