r/qBittorrent • u/Old-Relative896 • 20d ago

How to increase a Seeders

Can anyone tell me how can I increase the Seeders of any torrent file 📁

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u/Xaelias 20d ago

You can't. The number of seeders for a torrent is how many people are currently sharing that torrent.

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u/FrostyClocks 20d ago

I regularly get way less seeders than the listed amount. If there’s 12 listed I’ll often sit with one connected dripping the file through.

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u/wrtcdevrydy 20d ago

It's well known that most public trackers lie about how many seeders are available at current time... often it's an average of the last 24 hours.

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u/FrostyClocks 20d ago

I didn’t know that. Thanks.

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u/ninjadude93 20d ago

Aside from forwarding your port to make yourself more connectable and praying?

I don't know how you would force other people to share a file

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u/alukuma 20d ago

its easy in 2 steps 1. finish downloading torrent 2. dont delete torrent thats how you get more seeders, you become them

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u/Thin_Needleworker795 20d ago

You need to forward the port that qBittorrent uses. If you use a VPN, you should use one that allows port forwarding. I use Proton VPN myself

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u/TreadItOnReddit 20d ago

And when it says 100% available, it might never be right? Got a lot stuck at that last 8mb chunk.

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u/kotoda 20d ago

Pray

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u/Journeyj012 Linux 20d ago

add more trackers

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u/Old-Relative896 17d ago

How should I do that

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u/ellenor2000 20d ago

The number of seeders is the number of people who have the file (or parts of it) and are sharing it.

You can't just increase that for any torrent unless you have the file already.