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What software/OS are you running on your NAS? If you're running some goofy software on a private tracker your client might not be whitelisted.
Besides that - this NAS is attached to your home network I assume? Is it behind a router? Are the ports you're using for torrenting port-forwarded?
What tracker are you testing this on? A bunch of trackers will have a "Connectivity check" that will tell you whether or not your client is connectable
I be sailin' the digital seas with a trusty QNAP OS and the mighty QBittorrent, but I be a greenhorn in this life on the high seas. Me heart's desire be to contribute to our pirate brotherhood by becoming a proper seederman.
Be ye privy to a treasure map, a definitive guide, that can steer me in the right direction to turn me NAS into a fearsome seedin' contraption fit for the high seas?
I appreciate your commitment to the bit.
But yeah, I also have a QNAP NAS that I just finished getting set up! And it is indeed seeding out, I’m almost at 0.49 for my all-time share ratio after downloading some stuff over the last few days. It’s taking longer to get my share ratio up than I expected, but idk, I’m new here.
Anyway, from reading a couple of strongly-worded posts on Reddit it seems that you need to have port forwarding enabled on your VPN to really seed effectively. Did you look at that when picking your VPN?
Basically I’m using AirVPN with binhex’s arch-qbittorrentvpn docker container to get it all set up. Binhex has lots of helpful pages on their GitHub for getting things working properly.
I don't know if there's a "definitive guide" - it's not that complicated to get a torrent client up and running. What kind of content are you looking for? Movies, Series, Music, Games, Books..?
Best is probably to try to get access to a decent private tracker, and an "easy" one - one with a bonus point system for seeding and uptime - that makes it much easier to keep a good ratio with a NAS, if you're just permanently seeding everything you download, you'll get points and "rise the ranks" of that tracker.
Once you're a high enough rank on that tracker, you'll get access to their "Invite Forums" where other private trackers advertise and give out invites to their trackers