webtorrent-hybrid seed for several seconds and stop

[Danorcohen]

Hi,

I tried to seed an mp4 file (800M) with webtorrent-hybrid or webtorrent-hybrid-cli and to watch it with Webtorrent video player (such as instant.io). The web player shows that it start downloading from one peer (my server) and the server (webtorrent-hybrid-cli) shows that the client is downloading for several seconds... then the speed decreaces and eventually stops.. then, after a minute or two, it starts to download again for several seconds and stops again... and in the several seconds that it works the download speed is 300kB/s max...

According to Speedtest, in the server side the download rate is 480Mbit/s and upload rate 95Mbit/s
In the client side the download rate is 42Mbit/s and upload rate 3Mbit/s

What is the problem?

[Danorcohen]

Nothing?

[savely-krasovsky]

I have this problem too.

[wattazoum]

Hi,

I confirm this problem on my server. I thought it was a firewall issue, but it happens even after stopping the firewall.

[myotavietnam]

I have same problem , Destop verson too ( webpeer not work )
Webtorrent still need many improvements for smooth operation

[flimshaw]

+1 also having this issue, connections are initiated and run briefly, but aren't maintained. No idea how useful this is, but left side is webtorrent-hybrid attempting to download on a raspberry pi. Right side is webtorrent-hybrid seeing from os-x. Both are on the same network and subnet, start up and connect immediately and transfer at around 1MB/s for a few seconds, and then crash. The connection tends to restart every 30-60 seconds for a while before halting indefinitely.

[Ciao121]

Same here... just few seeding few seconds

[Ciao121]

Anybody found a solution or a workaround to this? I'm really going mad trying to understand where the problem is...

[Standaa]

Same problem here, running webtorrent-hybrid in node on a mac. Starts and then hangs after a couple seconds.

[TheFeelTrain]

I have the same problem with both webtorrent and webtorrent-hybrid.

I want to be able to keep seeding a file that is already downloaded but it only lasts for about 5 seconds. Is there anyway to do the equivalent of the --keep-seeding flag through the API? @feross

[feross]

@TheFeelTrain The API automatically continues seeding, you don't need to pass any special flag.