How to properly seed a torrent
Maybe you’ve downloaded a torrent file and want to start seeding, or you want to start sharing your files through torrent. But others aren’t able to reach your computer
Most probably, you have your router (or VPN) ports closed
Due to them being close, you’ll have a hard time sharing your files with others
To fix that, you need to open your ports
1. Go to your router (or VPN) settings
Find the part that tells about Ports or something along the lines of NAT
2. Add the port you’re using on your torrent client to be forwarded
On qBittorrent, go to Settings
> Connection
, and on Listening Port
you’re going to see the option Port used for incoming connections
, on the side of it, it’ll be the port
you’re going to port-forward
After setting the port, everything should be done
You’ll finally be able to share your torrent files with everyone, because only the seeder is required to have his ports open for the connection to be instant