r/qBittorrent • u/MrAmos123 • Jul 27 '26
A few days ago I asked whether to do something about "slow speed" and "ratio" posts. 544 of you voted, and the answer was clear enough to act on. The rules have now been rewritten around that result.
Before the details: we also went back through a month of posts and comments to work out what this sub is actually for, rather than guessing. Nearly 70% of posts here are tech support, and the single most repeated answer in the entire sub is some version of "have you forwarded your port" or "nobody is seeding that torrent". The changes below follow from that.
| Option | Votes | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Yes, both | 301 | 55% |
| Yes, but only "Slow Speed" | 84 | 15% |
| Yes, but only "Ratio" | 37 | 7% |
| No, leave them | 122 | 22% |
385 of you (71%) wanted slow-speed posts restricted. 338 (62%) wanted ratio posts restricted.
To the 122 who voted to leave both alone — you're a real chunk of this sub and we've tried not to steamroll you. Ratio posts aren't banned, they've moved. Speed questions aren't banned either. Read on.
→ Ratio & Stats Megathread 2026
Post your screenshots there any time. Brag away — that part hasn't changed.
We're not doing this because nobody cares. Ratio posts are some of the highest-upvoted content on this sub — that's exactly the problem, because they were pushing the support queue off the front page.
To make up for the lost reach, the megathread now runs annual awards, announced each December:
Previous winners can't win the same award twice, so it isn't the same person every year.
Still fine as a normal post: asking about your ratio. "Why is my ratio dropping?", "why won't this seed?" — those are support questions and they're welcome.
We've written a troubleshooting guide, because the same handful of causes explain nearly all of these:
→ Slow speeds, stalling, and "it won't seed"
You can still post about it. The rule is just that your post has to say what you already tried and what happened.
"I forwarded 6881, it still tests as closed, red flame in the corner, Proton with port forwarding on, v5.2.3 on Win11" — we can work with that.
"Why are my speeds slow" — we can't.
This isn't about how much effort you put into the post. A long, well-written post about something the guide already answers is still a copy of the guide. The test is whether the answer already exists and whether you checked it. That's it.
Four guides, written from the answers you have actually been giving each other:
Corrections and additions welcome — tell us if something's wrong or missing.
New:
Removed:
Merged: NO spam and NO suspicious links are now one rule, Official builds only.
Narrowed: NO piracy talk is now No piracy sourcing. To be blunt about where the line actually is, because the old wording was broader than how we've ever enforced it:
Post flairs have been rebuilt. issue and question are gone — they were used interchangeably and told nobody anything. The new set: Connectivity · Setup & Config · Install & Updates · Self-hosted · Ratio & Stats · Bug · Discussion · News · Tool / Project · Solved.
Flair is now required. Please mark your post Solved when you get an answer — someone will hit your exact problem next month and find your thread.
AutoModerator is being switched on. For the first week it will only flag things for us to look at, not remove them, so we can catch mistakes before they annoy anyone. If it gets your post wrong, reply to its comment and a human will sort it out.
Questions, disagreements and "you got this wrong" all welcome in the comments. We'd rather adjust now than find out in three months that something's not working.
r/qBittorrent • u/AutoModerator • Jul 27 '26
This is where ratio screenshots, upload totals and seeding milestones go. Post them here any time — top-level comment, screenshot, brag away. 🎉
Standalone ratio/stats posts are removed under Rule 4 and pointed here. This is not because nobody cares: these are some of the most-upvoted posts in the sub. It is because they were crowding out the support queue the sub mainly exists for, and the community voted for it — 338 of 544 votes.
When this thread closes at the end of the year, we pin a post announcing three winners, and open a fresh thread for the new year.
| Award | How it's judged |
|---|---|
| Most Uploaded | Highest total upload volume |
| Best Ratio | Highest ratio, minimum 1 TB uploaded |
| Longest Haul | Longest continuous seeding streak |
To be clear, this thread is for showing off. If you are asking something — "why is my ratio dropping?", "why won't this seed?", "how do I improve my upload?" — that is a support question and belongs in its own post. Check the connectivity guide first.
A rough test: if your post ends in a full stop, it belongs here. If it ends in a question mark, post it properly and we will help.
Ratio is how much you have uploaded divided by how much you have downloaded. A ratio above 1.0 means you have given back more than you took.
If yours is low, that is usually not a fault — you upload only when someone wants what you have, and on a well-seeded torrent you are competing with everyone else who has it. Leaving torrents seeding after they finish is the whole trick. See the connectivity guide if you think something is actually broken.
Sorted by New so recent entries stay visible.
r/qBittorrent • u/WhiteEntropy • 4h ago
Am i the only one? can't find anything online on that.
It's on every torrent, and I didn't change anything in the settings, internet is good, and there are plenty of seeders.
r/qBittorrent • u/rick10120108 • 9h ago
does anyone know whats going onn
r/qBittorrent • u/ConsistentAd9163 • 12h ago
I have a large excluded file names list, the popular one found on Reddit basically.
In it there’s the line “*sample.mkv”
Which is to avoid sample files of course, however sometimes files are being excluded that aren’t samples and it just throws the whole torrent into seeding despite there being no files.
Has anyone found a solution for this?
r/qBittorrent • u/DataC0ffee • 1d ago
So I have 256gb nvme ssd and 1tb sata HDD. I do need to reset pc so I am willing to keep my torrent files on hdd but after a reset all data of the qbit application will be gone but can I add them? To the list? When I have them downloaded in my hdd. I would like to keep seeding.
If I can how to do it. Thnx for any guided help
r/qBittorrent • u/Dreadpirateyarr • 1d ago
Version: qBit-nox 5.2.3
OS: Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
Hey friends, Having an interesting issue and wondering if anyone has seen this before.
Every now and then I search for files through Qbit's search function (using Jackett or Prowlarr Plugin). If I right click the file and hit "download" it adds the torrent without issue, but if I open the Download Window it fails to add the torrent.
I found that the browser console shows a "POST 400" and the failed add response gives me the following error "`filePriorities` may only be specified when metadata has already been fetched"
This is currently happening with two of my trackers, but not the third - I've noticed that the two trackers that have this issue add a URL to the torrent as a Comment in the "Torrent Info" section. The third tracker that works fine doesn't do this.
For the two trackers that have this issue, If I click the "Add Torrent" button before the Meta Data fully loads the torrent is added successfully, but if it loads before I have a chance to hit Add Torrent it gives me the POST 400.
I have the same issue if using Prowlarr or Jackett, I've tried multiple browsers. Just wondering if anyone else has seen this and maybe found a solution.
thanks!
r/qBittorrent • u/Alarming-Dog-3020 • 1d ago
Earlier, qBittorrent used to place current torrent files/folders at the bottom of the list (irrespective of the alphabetical order for downloaded/completed torrents) -- which I kind of got used to. Now it's in alphabetical order whether complete or incomplete.
How do I get it to conform to the old user interface. It's easier to locate a torrent if it's at the bottom of the list.
Will be stoked if someone shares their magic formula and help me with my qBittorrent OCD.
r/qBittorrent • u/Open-Astronomer7471 • 2d ago
Got some free space on my PC. Looking to help, got a few niche linux distros.
r/qBittorrent • u/Beautiful_Tour8330 • 1d ago
im very new to this, and i have watched the tutorials already, i just wanted to asked that what do to with Qbittorrent after installing the game ?? should i keep the Qbitorrent running in the background or Exist??
r/qBittorrent • u/Octrockville • 2d ago
I have followed the guide from https://support.nordvpn.com/hc/en-us/articles/20195967385745-NordVPN-proxy-setup-for-qBittorrent And all seemed to work. I did the test with ipleak.net and under the "Torrent Address detection" it showed the same IP as what it shown in the "Your IP address" section. Then, as a test, I disconnected my VPN while I was downloading a torrent (living dangerously there) but in qbittorent, the connection speed lowered almost to zero but then shot up to like 8mb/s and the progress percentage was increasing. I stopped the torrent and turned my VPN back on.
What am I doing wrong?
r/qBittorrent • u/Salty_Shark26 • 3d ago
I have the firewall bypassed and the Proton VPN Plus synced but nothing is downloading.
r/qBittorrent • u/Ok_Lemon4084 • 2d ago
My qbittorent(trueNAS) does not have anything in it. It just waiting for my *arr. I haven't used it for a couple of month but it does this everyday.
Is it normal? How can I disable it? It has a ping signature, but pinging all the world everyday (including russia) is concerning and brings security questions.
r/qBittorrent • u/SanD-82 • 2d ago
Hello.
Long time user, I've not been able to solve these 2 "issues".
A) I want to have X active downloads, but I do not want a Stalled download to be counted as active. There's a setting "not to count slow torrents", but it just does not work. To keep this simple, if I set a limit of 2 active downloads and I have 10 torrents in the queue, if one of the is stalled, the other one keeps downloading but I have only 2 "active" torrents: the one downloading and the stalled one. The 3rd one in the queue is, well, queued...
B) I usually get magnets, and I do have defaults in place so that if I add an actual torrent file it's not going to ask me confirmation, it will just add it to the queue. But with magnets, that prevents the data from loading. Is there any way for it to actually download the torrent's info/content and then go in the queue?, so that I can see the files and sizes?.
Thank you.
r/qBittorrent • u/FrankDaTank1283 • 2d ago
Trying to download a tv show. 91 GB. Download speed is bouncing between 0 and 15 KiB/s and occasionally jumps to 100KiB/s but then back down. I just downloaded a 20 GB movie earlier and it took maybe 45 minutes. What do i do?
v5.1.4, Ubuntu 26.04, using NordVPN. I have unchecked all the boxes that others have suggested and still nothing.
Edit: Computer is an optiplex 7050. I got it off facebook marketplace. I dont know if this is the problem that it is a crappy pc but download speeds of <100KiB/s is just crazy. I am obviously still new to this so any suggestions and tips are welcome. Thanks
r/qBittorrent • u/Crispyterrarian • 2d ago
All of my new downloads are stuck on downloading metadata 0%. I am running qBittorrent through Gluetun with ProtonVPN. Some stats I've found to be relevant are:
Connections: 10 (100 max)
Seeds: 0 (20 total)
Peers: 10 (18 total)
I would really appreciate some help in fixing this issue. I have tried randomizing my port, resetting my VPN, and restarting the pc. I am pretty new to this, so I don't really know where I should look next.
I had this working before, but was experimenting with my setup and ended up breaking it. I did not save a backup, so trust that I will remember to backup next time. qBittorrent running in Docker btw.
r/qBittorrent • u/Relevant_Click_5925 • 2d ago
Alguem me ajuda, desde fevereiro deste ano não existia nenhum problema relacionado a velocidade de donwload dos torrents, e agora esta enssa situação, 6.9 kib de velocidade, com tempo restante de 78d 22h, alguem ja teve esse peorblema, realmente é provedor ou algum bloqueio de firewall? ja desativei firewall, e mudou nada. troquei de porta de entrada acima de 5k, e tambem usei o padrão 443, e mudou anda tambem. Queria saber se isso é problema do CGNAT ? sapoha bloqueia portas e aplicações P2P.
r/qBittorrent • u/ImouGirl • 3d ago
As it says in the title. Windows 10, I use a VPN.
Minutes prior in the same VPN session, qBit had no problem connecting to trackers. Torrents were working exactly as expected.
After updating, even attempting the exact same popular torrent now yields 0 peers. The status bar shows the flame icon, despite me explicitly allowing qbit through my firewall (and double checking to make sure that was the case.) Looking at the trackers list, suddenly all of their statues read things like "No such known host", "actively refused connection", "permission denied", or "torrent aborted".
I don't remember exactly what version I used prior, but it was a few years out of date. Should I just revert anyways? I've never had this issue before.
Edit: Tried restarting PC, tried updating python. Sadly, neither was the solution.
Edit 2: Fixed! Resetting qbittorrent.ini fixed it. Thank you all so much!
r/qBittorrent • u/Apprehensive-Bug1604 • 3d ago
Does downloading metadata usually take a long time? Also, is there a way to view the full text, so instead of saying "Downloading..." on the second to last torrent, it says all of it? Sorry if these are silly questions, thanks for any help.
r/qBittorrent • u/Single-Layer-3181 • 3d ago
How do I add new torrents to the top of the queue automatically. where is the add to the top of the queue option when adding torrent
r/qBittorrent • u/Single-Layer-3181 • 3d ago
Why has it disappeared? Where can i enable it again from?
r/qBittorrent • u/oliverpls599 • 3d ago
Hi all,
Just setting up "QbitController on my Android.
Managed to log in and view my previous torrents. I use the search function on QBitorrent to search Piratebay, Limetorrents, and YTS. I used the same on the app, searching for the material in the screenshot. When I add it, I get this.
Any ideas?
r/qBittorrent • u/theholytoast1234 • 4d ago
hello! recently ive found my computer running a bit slower than usual so i checked my startups in task manager, and found this:
i used to have bittorrent installed briefly, but its currently uninstalled and off my computer. i searched this application up and found out the title is a bittorrent application but i still dont use bittorrent. is this an actual genuine bittorrent application or is this a virus? i have it disabled in case it is but still.
