
Unless the torrent is private, trackers aren't really necessary. A tracker being offline can either be temporary or permanent. Red seeding means one or more trackers is not working/offline. Is there any chance of advising on settings for seeding and speeding things up? I have reset uTorrent using the downloaded settings.dat, but it doesn't seem to be working as it did at first. I would estimate that about 80% of torrents are now red instead of green. I can't find out what that means, but I assume that for some reason it means they aren't available for upload although they are all in the folder I store torrents in.

The whole things seems to have slowed down a lot, but as my ISP has doubled my speed and put me on fibre, I would have thought it should not do that.Īlso many torrents don't seem to seed as they did and today I suddenly see that many of them are red, as in the attached picture.
#Blue vs green seeding utorrent update
To confuse things further, I think I saw that there may have been an update to uTorrent since then because now I find that things aren't working as as well as before.įor example, torrents now take ages to start downloading and seeding. I also contacted my ISP and asked what they could do so after supplying a new router, two days later they decided to upgrade me to fibre and increased my download speed to 100 M at the same time.

Last month I asked why I was having problems with uTorrent and Rafi suggested I use his settings.dat file which I did and all was fine - for a while.
