background; i had all my torrents seeding forever and i never set a limit mostly because when i set up qbittorrent i was new and never really went into options.
i want to be able to control and limit the bandwidth i use but is 50kb/s during the day/10kb/s at night unreasonable? i dont want to be rude or make it hard for people to get things but i also just don’t want thinks to balloon out of control (before i just keep everything in seeding perpetually just because i never bothered to look).
am i being unreasonable with limits? i obviously dont want to download and just stop; i always want to at least share back to at least 1.
these are mostly public trackers btw
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It’s not really rude, no one really knows what your top upload speed is or how much of it you have to be able to use. Many people out there torrenting have horrible upload and download speeds but the benefit of the torrent protocol is that a bunch of people seeding a file with horrible upload speed can still result in fast downloads for you.
The only ones who might take issue with it are private trackers who might require that people have fast uploads or upload a lot in a specific time frame.
Exactly this. I have great download speeds, but shit upload. Like, we’re talking 175 Mb/s down but only like 10 Mb/s up.
So, I typically limit my speed to 10 KiB/s (0.41 Mb/s) whenever my spousy is home so as not to hog the bandwidth. Lol.
I’m in the same boat, and it genuinely adds up over time. I’ve literally uploaded hundreds of gigabytes while throttling my speeds.
Every little bit helps.
Exactly.
No. Uploading at all is better than nothing.
No one cares or will even notice your lack of participation.
Some seeders have amazing infrastructure and can seed in an hour what would take you a year on a residential connection.
This is not an “if everyone did that” problem because not everyone has limited residential bandwidth.
If youre worried about moral obligations adopt a few torrents with very low numbers of seeders to ensure they dont die.
Alternatively, you could rent a seed box for a month and upload 5 years worth.
Ive had downloads that went on for months because there was one seeder at like 15-20kbps constantly, and one that would pop on and push a few megs but really intermittently.
I’m in the “who cares as long as you seed” camp as well.
Public trackers? No, nobody cares. On private trackers, where sharing and keeping the content alive is important, share ratios are often tracked very closely, and you can be banned if you aren’t sharing enough back.
Depends on the private tracker too, most of the ones my friend is in have some sort of bonus point system rewarding for just keeping torrents alive.
As long as you seed with a ratio > 1 you’re good in my eyes!
I try but on some it’s really hard. If there are so many seeders that you are unable to seed much yourself then that should also be ok.
I do 4x or 1 month whichever comes first. Unless I notice it’s some really hard to come by thing and I may leave it up for a year or more.
I just leave my torrents until deluge starts crashing. If one thing is super popular I’m not gonna stop it from boosting my ratio. Most sit idle with almost no interest 95% of the time.
i usually leave mine going until i have to unplug my drive (my media pc is a busted old laptop that cant be unplugged, if im travelling i take my drive with me). that means theyre usually going for a month or two
I would like to see some kind of conservative, standardization on how to organize files like music and TV shows so we can keep seeding the same torrent after it’s finished. As it stands right now, unless you want a lot of “branding” in your files, you have to remove all of the noise which means you no longer have the exact files the swarm is looking for.
There are some torrents that do it right, and hats off to them.
Honestly same I want to share forever but I also dont have the storage for 2x everything
I’ve got years old torrents on my seedbox.I forgot about. 2000 ratio lol
*cries in no port forwarding
no matter how long i keep trying to seed, not even one bit uploaded
I used to. My current router seems to handle QoS gracefully, so I haven’t found a need to. For the last year or so, I’ve been seeding everything until it gets > 2 ratio and there are > 10 seeders, otherwise I just keep seeding. I just looked, and I have one torrent with > 200 ratio, lol.
if you don’t have any data caps then it just doesn’t make any sense to cap your uploads.
I don’t think they were referring to capping their uploads, but to capping their upload speeds.
yes. it doesn’t make any sense to cap neither upload total or upload speed unless they have some sorta data cap
Speaking for USA: The top 3 major ISP’s all have a 40mbps limit on upload speeds. Even if you have unlimited data, the constant sharing can bog down your internet, so yes, it fits make sense to limit upload speed.
But 50kbps that OP said is pretty low unless they have low speeds from their ISP.
yeah I was thinking 10% makes sense.
Anything helps, totally acceptable. My network is shared with others, I limit my speed up and down to make sure I don’t slow it down for everyone.
I generally seed to a ratio of 10, but if it is popular with lots of seeds I’ll stop it early, anything with under 10 seeds I have set to seed for ever - some of them are now into the 1000’s for the ratio
So my point is maybe choose what to seed rather than limit the speed - but no judgment as long as you give something back
I’ll make up for it don’t worry
Yes what everyone else said, ratio is the only one that really matters.
I seed to 10.0 on pretty much everything unless it takes forever and takes up a lot of space.
Certain things, mostly things that are for the common good (books, practical software, documentaries) I seed forever.
As long as you’re giving more than you’re taking in the long run, you’re good. If you cannot for whatever reason, someone will have your back and don’t worry about it.
I seed to 10.0 on pretty much everything unless it takes forever
What is “forever” in this case? I gave 1Gbit symmetrical and the best ratio I have is <4 on a torrent I’ve had going for literally years
Fair point, in my case, months-ish? I’ve had many go to 10+, probably with smaller files I’m guessing. Depends how much i need the hard drive space, I’m a humble setup.
You have to set some upload and connection limits or it will slow down your internet for everything else. What you set those limits to will depend on your internet connection.
No. The strength of Torrenting is that a bunch of slow connections can combine into one fast download.
It’s not the rate, it’s the ratio.
True, but tbf the rate helps the ratio, especially for those that don’t seed indefinitely.
But it’s still the ratio. Those little upload speeds add up.
