the beauty of decentralization, aint shit corpos can do about it lol
get fucked, parasites. should have never fragmented streaming services into cable style bullshit.
My most uploaded file is a copy of Shrek 2 with Latin American Spanish dub, it took me over a month to download. I swear to God the only one seeding it was someone who would just open their client, download whatever they were looking for, then shut it off. It’s the only copy of that dub I could find in decent quality. Now I’m at ~50 ratio for that file.
If you can only find 0 seed torrents just chuck it in your client anyway, I’ve had several actually complete.
This is great advice. It’s easy to get disheartened with a spinning torrent, but heroes like you can turn that around.
I’ve once had to bring up my ratio on a (now defunct) private torrent site in orde to download new torrents. I was looking for high leech low seed torrents, and I am ashamed to say I’ve seeded over 500 GB of granny porn (like 20gb original size). Brought up my ratio, tho.
Nice. I just got above 2 for my ratio. I don’t have symmetric internet, but I have my torrents set up to never stop, and I don’t delete.
God I wish I had symmetrical upload. Gigabit down and like, 125mbps up.
Not to much for this but I self host stuff like my photos and I notice it’s slower when scrolling my photos outside the house. And using my personal VPN, makes my download limited to my upload speed.
I’ve got like half a gig down and 20 ish mbps up. I also limit it to less because family and stuff.
Spectrum? I’m moving from symmetric to this shit soon.
I had Spectrum at my previous apartment. 300 Mbps down, 10 up 😭 thank god there’s a local fiber ISP here
Mines about the same with Comcast. 1Gbps down but only around 20Mbps upload.
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I actually didn’t post my highest ratio, I didn’t want to seem like a braggart
You’re not a braggart, you’re a goddamned hero 🫡
It’d be more interesting to see the “Real Uploaded” and “Real Downloaded” stats for this profile. The “Uploaded” stat can be padded by using bonus points, and the “Downloaded” stat does not include freeleech.
That is also why I didn’t post this proof originally. The real numbers for this one are less impressive.
Real Uploaded 1.162 TiB
Real Downloaded 744.29 GiB
Real share ratio 1.599
Thanks for posting your numbers! An >1.5 ratio is still great. For example I’m below 1 as I don’t really get any upload on most things. They just don’t seem to get snatched much.
Do you seed many audiobooks or mainly ebooks? I guess the former given your large amount of data downloaded.
A lot of audiobooks. When new free leech items drop, I think it’s every 2 weeks, I was just grabbing all of them. And then you get bonus points for seeding. It got to the point where I get Max bonus points (99,999) in about 24 hours and then just use that to buy upload credit.
The trick to getting a lot of upload is to be one of the first people to download and start seeding a torrent. You can also automate downloading with Autobrr, that way you download something as soon as it’s available, and then everyone who downloads after you is getting it from you
Gamifying seeding? Sign me up!
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One time I found a KDrama that changed my life (Crash Landing on You), and to thank the producers, I set up a dedicated seedbox for years that did nothing but seed their show :). I think I hit like 70TB uploaded before shutting it off
Carrying our comrades with data caps.
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Welcome aboard!
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I, too, am a seeder.
For how long are you doing this and what’s your upload speed?
I started using qbit about a year ago after using deluge. I have gb down and 100mb up.
Unironically, a lot of that ratio is from Linux isos and other open source software distribution. Take the load off their servers!
Thank you! I’m trying to get there too!
The democracy and equality humans need, but don’t deserve.
I’m fairly certain that Ubittorrent messed up my user account on my old Mac, and now I am really leery to start it up on my new Mac. I also have no idea how to go about diagnosing whether I have malware or something, because I have never run into this issue on a Mac before. I also have had trouble setting limits on uploads so all my bandwidth isn’t sucked away, and ChatGPT was not effective with its advice. Usually I leave it running for days on end though, and I also don’t delete.
I can never get decent upload speeds. I seed everything I can but the most I’ve ever seen is 100 kbps. Average is probably more like 10 and very few upload at all. Haven’t been able to find the reason.
Are you sure you are using port forwarding and have symmetric connection?
This is me too. I’ve got about 5TB of material being seeded 24/7 from my media seever, but I rarely see more than single-digit GB total upload volume per day. The majority of the time, except for the occasional blip, I rarely see total upload rate get over a few hundred kB/s despite having the cap at 24MB/s.
I’d have to stop torrenting completely and only seed for a year to get my ratio past 2.0 lol
I have so many files that have been stalled at >95% for months.
Have you checked what is missing, sometimes people only pick the wanted files from a torrent, so maybe those 5% are just bloat nobody cared to seed as well.
Good point. There are some where it’s just a few miscellaneous files missing.
