The original post: /r/torrents by /u/threegigs on 2025-01-26 14:13:36.

This is not the first time I have seen this situation.

There are several peers with 89% of a torrent downloaded. Several times an hour a seeder (showing 100% in qB, but with the error in the title in Tixati) connects, but no one seems to be able to download from that seeder.

Every time I've seen it the seed has an older version of Transmission (e.g. 2.2.1). Tixati won't finish the handshake, and qB only shows the peer as being connected and never begins downloading.

Is this just an old, buggy, client that I might be able to connect to with some other client than qB or Tix, or is this a troll who is just stringing everyone along?