Sometimes, when I try to torrent using qBittorrent or Transmission, the search for metadata appears to take forever. What could be causing this issue?
A magnet link is basically a torrent of a torrent, so the answer to your question is going to be the same as “why won’t this torrent download quickly / at all?”.
It could be:
- No seeders
- Firewall rules blocking DHT
- No port forwarding
- Dead torrent
- Your Internet blocks torrent/DHT traffic.
If magnets, then there’s less info in the link itself (compared to a .torrent) and that needs to be located. If availability is shit, that will be hard/impossible.
Sometimes I paste a list of open common trackers into the details and it’ll fnd some peers that way. This is for public torrents only, ofc.
Go to the connection settings and copy the “Port used for incoming connections”. Paste it into a service like: https://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports/
If your port isn’t “open”, that’s your issue. You need to configure port-forwarding in your router or VPN client.
Not exactly the place to ask, but I can’t seem to get to the piracy page to make a post
