The original post: /r/torrents by /u/fakekamigawa on 2025-01-19 00:05:22.

I'm kind of wondering what's happening..?

I am downloading a 160 GB file from QBitTorrent and its acting kind of strange. The first 26.5% was steady. I had somewhere from 50KiB/s to 200KiB/s. The seeders were mostly from the US.

After I accidentally shut down my PC and reconnected. The steady US seeders are nowhere to be found. The only seeders left have intermittent bursts of several KiB on information in intervals of 10-30 seconds. They are from Japan, Ecuador, China, Belarus, etc.

Still, I am grateful for the ones who are still seeding, but it feels weird. Am I being choked?

Most of the remaining seeders have flags such as DSHXEP or dIHXEP, but disappear after a burst of information. They do constantly reappear but no steady stream other than the Japanese.

Strangely though, apparently, I got some seeds where I got up to several MB/s, truly grateful for that. It boosted about 1-2% in mere several hours.