Frustrated beyond belief!

[ade]

So I started using Sonarr about two weeks ago, and I couldn’t believe that I hadn’t done this sooner.

My Set Up:
Seedbox via seedstuff.ca
Sonarr on local pc
Webdrive to mount FTP space as mapped drive
internet connection is gigabit fiber optic

I was able to import all my existing series just fine everything was working beautifully, fast, and I was in love.

Then calamity has beset upon my household and I am facing grim, dark days until I can get this resolved.

Seedstuff is closing their doors.
cries

So, fine, I go with Ultraseedbox, download speeds were terrible, using proxy didn’t seem to fix it, so I switched to dediseedbox upon the recommendation of a family member.

So far so good. Manual FTP transfers are nice and fast, it took a little doing but I got Sonarr working and on board, and it adds things into my rutorrent interface immediately, but then that is where things get a bit fuzzy.

There is a seemingly ending loop of queued files to transfer, but they are transferring via WebDrive (this is what happened before as well), but they are only transferring at like 50.64 KB/s. Obviously this is not a great situation as it takes half an eternity for things to download to my local system, whereas before, with Seedstuff, things came in much, much faster.

I’ve also noticed since switching with only 1% of my drive used on my seedbox that download speeds from 2 of my private trackers are inordinately slow, but the 3rd one is fine.

I’m feeling very lost, and ready to just go without television for the rest of my life, to be honest, rather then choke up my computer with speeds I could practically get at dial up speed, let alone my snazzy fibre connection.

I don’t even know how to troubleshoot this particular quagmire of suckdom.
I’ve enlisted the help of dedi, but haven’t gotten an answer yet. Does anyone here have advice?

[ade]

dediseedbox was of no help at all.
they dont understand the nature of my question, and think i am asking about how to improve my traditional ftp speeds (which are fine).

i am praying someone here might know the answer so I don’t have to abandon this whole thing, because i really loved it for the two weeks i was able to blissfully use it.

[Taloth]

You have a flair for a dramatic narrative, I like.

Unfortunately, I’m not sure of how much help I can be in your particular predicament.

There is a seemingly ending loop of queued files to transfer, but they are transferring via WebDrive (this is what happened before as well), but they are only transferring at like 50.64 KB/s.

This gotta be configuration. I’m not familiar with WebDrive, but if manual ftp transfers are fast…
Are you sure those 50.64 KB/s is the only data being transferred? Check Resource Monitor in windows to verify the actual network activity.
During import Sonarr checks MediaInfo of the video files. That’s very little data, but involves random file access which not every ftp server might support. Not saying that’s the cause, but it’s the only thing that might account for additional ‘invisible’ traffic, hence the recommendation to check Resource Monitor.

I’ve also noticed since switching with only 1% of my drive used on my seedbox that download speeds from 2 of my private trackers are inordinately slow, but the 3rd one is fine.

Sounds to me like an issue with the connectivity for those 2 trackers. There are multiple ways for other peers to connect with your seedbox and exchange parts. But if one of those methods it’s working, then all you’re left with is a trickle due to other peers. Most trackers have a method of testing connectivity.
What’s also possible is that the tracker might not yet like your seedbox enough after switching and not ‘assign’ you as peer that much, in which case just wait it out for a few days. Otherwise casually inquire your tracker’s forum to see if it offers assistance.
Anyway, that’s clearly something specific to your seedbox and not Sonarr.

I’m feeling very lost, and ready to just go without television for the rest of my life, to be honest, rather then choke up my computer with speeds I could practically get at dial up speed, let alone my snazzy fibre connection.

You’d be stuck with netflix the rest of your life… achieved nothing, accomplished nothing, you’d be a disgrace to the family name. Can’t let that happen can you? Do not abandon your quest.

[bodgeup]

I just signed up with Ultraseedbox as the prices were low for what you get, im on Jaguar-2Tb box. 20gbps links up and down.

Last night downloaded a 14gb torrent at 360MB/s… got screenshot as proof too as i couldnt believe it myself. Im new to seedboxes too so seeing that sort of speed was unheard of till now.

So Ultraseedbox def fine for me, as always its dependant on the host at the other end which determines your speed even with fast connections. That or you have a config problem somewhere.

JK

[ade]

well if you were seeing those types of speeds, clearly i’m doing something wrong. i just dont get it, to be honest, with the internet connection i have, and if the seedbox is operating the way they say it is, i should have good speed transfer.

Downloading torrents to the seedbox seems quick enough (so fast I can’t even see it register/download its just there and done.). Its just moving it from the seedbox to me that seems slow.

I don’t think the problem is with Sonarr, but I’m hoping the users here might be able to assist me.

I have two computers.

1. Better computer, hard wired connection direct to router/fiber optic.
2. Crappier old computer, wireless connection.

Both run 64bit Windows 10. In both cases, I’m downloading from the seedbox to a USB hard drive connected via the router in all cases.

I decided to install filezilla on my first machine, and lo and behold it too is crawling along like molasses running uphill, backwards, on a frosty day in January.

Using the same test file, my crapy computer transfers it at 1.4MiB/s. On the good one with the better connection, i’m getting thesame speeds as Webdrive: a mere 50-70kb Kib/s with occasional spikes up to 100. (apparently if folks are seeing much higher speed transfers 1.4 isn’t all that great either, but i can live with it).

So whatever is blocking Webdrive is most likely the same problem that is blocking Filezilla.

I’ve shut down everything, restarted it, with the same result.

What could possibly be impeding my speed on the better computer with the hardwired connection as opposed to my decade old dinosaur with a wifi connection?

I uninstalled Webdrive to remove the mapping, just to make sure that wasn’t it, with no improvement.
So I suspect that if I can solve the filezilla speeds, that will fix the other problem.

Next up - picky review of filezilla settings, and aha, there’s the rub.
I was still using a generic proxy on the 2nd crappy computer, and as soon as i put that proxy into my 1st computer’s filezilla it was like christmas in january on dediseebox. (that’s a thing).

So, reinstalling Webdrive, I connect to Ultraseedbox (since it appears that using their proxy is what is allowing me to generate good speeds atm), and when I connect, its right back to snail speeds. Okay, I think, let’s put in the proxy, and watch the magic happen, but alas, there is no love for me. With the proxy in place, it refuses to connect.

So now I am back to the ultraseedbox folks in helps that they can help me configure webdrive - i am confident if i can just bash this last piece of the puzzle into place, I can go back to my cheerful, loving ilfe self that existed prior to the dark day of seedstuff closing its doors, a travesty which i may never completely get over.

dediseedbox and ultraseedbox have been there with me, two very distant beacons of light in the dark hole that is trying to swallow my ability to download television. who gets me to the finish line first will retain my business, and the loser shall be no more…

fellow travelers - thank you for sharing in my journey, if it hadn’t been for you i wouldn’t have gone back to poking at ultraseedbox again.

[bodgeup]

Sorry Ive read your original post wrong as thought u were talking about net to seedbox download speeds.

Ive only just signed up with Ultraseedbox and i am using resilio to sync my data to my machine, but that too was maxing out at 2MB/s similar to what your seeing. But apparently thats a comon issue with Resilio ever when using a direct connection. Im going to try FTP next i think so ill let you know what speeds i get with that.

But im sure it will be faster that 2MB/s ill let you know.

JK

[ade]

Its decent, I was able to pull down about 5M or so with filezilla with the proxy in place, and i could live with that for sure. but 46.69Kb/s, which is what I’m getting on the webdrive without the proxy, that makes me want to do bad things.

[Jonb1978]

You say ftp is fine speed size? Why don’t you ftp you content down?

[ade]

does sonarr have a provision for doing that automatically? the way it is working now it queues the transfer via the mounted drive. if theres an alternative, i’m not sure how to tell sonarr to do it that way instead. i also think the mounted drive way is solveable, just haven’t gotten there yet

[lordjynx]

I use lftp here on a 15min interval to pull completed downloads (I have completed stuff hard-link to a special folder on my seedbox). lftp is nice because it supports parallel threads for downloading. It’s a linux box I use but you might be able to get a windows port.

You might also try usenet instead. The downloads are typically faster and no worries with ratios/etc.

[ade]

Okay - Seems like I’ve gotten this bashed up like nobody’s business and its now working superbly, except for one new wrinkle – I thought it was doing this before, but wasn’t 100% sure. For some reason, Sonarr keeps trying to download the same file over and over.

For example, last night I saw the Resident S01E03 download, and apparently all night long it was doing that again, and here this morning, still trying. That one just finished so now its trying to pull down another episode that I saw it try to transfer last night. As I sit here writing this, the second one finished, so now its back to the Resident S01E03 again.

1. The Resident S01E03, which it sent to my seedbox fine, then transferred it to my drive ok, and when i look at the directory structure, its in the folder for “The Resident” and then in the “Season 1” folder, which indicates to me that it imported okay, but in the “ACtivity screen” it says it can’t import it because it already exists. But why is it trying again?

Same thing for the second episode, and if I let it, these two will just download over and over until the end of time. There doesn’t seem to be a way to expunge these two from wanting to download or remove them from the activity without removing them from the seedbox which I don’t want to do as they have not yet met their ratio preferences.

Do I have something set up improperly in sonarr now that i have to conquer? Anyone see this before? From googling it does seem to be something that has cropped up before for others that requires them to go in and “unmonitor” the episodes when it happens but I’d like to find out if there is something I can do differently to stop it from happening in the first place.

[ade]

On further review, the Supergirl episode I can see what is happening, but not how to stop this from occurring again. Sonarr prompted two copies to be sent to my seedbox (one from each of two trackers), so it is a different file and it can’t import both because they are the same size, same name, etc.

Why would it attempt to get two in the first place?

[ade]

was able to cure it by removing the sonarr label from one of the two seeding files, deleting the one on my drive, and letting it figure the rest out on its own, but going to be watching to see if this happens again!

[Jonb1978]

Snap. Lftp. Exactly what I was going to say. Configured to pull from seedbox. Moves the files also.

[ade]

if you guys use LFTP, do you turn CDH off?

[lordjynx]

On here. Use remote mappings to a folder.

Here’s mine:

Host - my seedbox
Remote Path - seedbox completed folder
Local - some local path that sonarr can access. Downloads end up here.

my lftp script unrars/etc. then moves to the local path.