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I actually didn’t post my highest ratio, I didn’t want to seem like a braggart
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
You’re not a braggart, you’re a goddamned hero 🫡
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.
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.
This is great advice. It’s easy to get disheartened with a spinning torrent, but heroes like you can turn that around.
Carrying our comrades with data caps.
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.
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!
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
The democracy and equality humans need, but don’t deserve.
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.
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.
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
Are you sure you are using port forwarding and have symmetric connection?
Dang
All Linux iso’s, right?
There are at least 3 Linux isos in those 700 torrents.
FBI, open up!
Jk. Thank you for your service
Got served with strongly worded letters, forced me to use Wireshark on a private server, then ProtonVPN.
Kings, Queens, and in-betweens, we have found our new emperor. Blesséd be the giga-chad @[email protected]
I’m blessed by cheap and fast french internet. Still need a VPN though.
I think I just busted a nut
I think you’ve got won, great work!
I’m lucky to be in a position to do that, a few years ago I would’ve dreamt of reaching what most shared here
My upload ratio looks like ass because I edit videos for a thing with friends, and we use torrent to send the raw footage between computers. So I have like a 0.2 ratio because I’m downloading 5 gigs and then we kill the torrent.
Interesting use case
It’s strange that people know how to create and share torrents but not open a port or install an FTP server.
My friends aren’t tech nerds, they dont want to do that stuff unfortunately. Qbittorent is simple enough for them to adopt without complaint.
…syncthing?
I would absolutely be a seeder if my router didn’t reset itself in the middle of the night. That, and I’d be worried about getting caught by my ISP, even with my VPN.
Regardless, these people are the real heroes.
Add airflow to your router, common issue for overheating routers. May need to move it out into open, out of a closet or whatever.
If your ISP hasnt sent you a letter yet then try something much more tracked like GoT and if you dont get one after a week then you should be fine.
Pretty sure it’s programmed to reset at night from the ISP themselves, so not much luck there.
Also I have in the past for emails, but that was before I got my VPN subscription. Nothing since then, but I ain’t chancing it.
I never use router from ISP, I use my own. Most routers from ISP are awful.
I don’t have a choice as there is almost no way I could convince my parents that using a 3rd party router would be the way to go. Especially trying to convince my dad, who once got pissed off because I wanted the password for the old family computer to remove a browser extension that was probably malicious.
I’d set up a 3rd party router by snaking an Ethernet cable to my room, but I’m not confident enough to change and keep up on router settings to keep me safer. Let alone updating the router if I go the route of a 3rd party nos, which I’d probably try.
In the future if you are able to get your own router opensense is a great firmware for it. Also check out selfhosted you will learn alot from there.
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Joined: 9 years, 11 months ago
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Last Seen: 19 secs ago
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Uploaded: 137.847 TiB
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Downloaded: 7.191 TiB
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Ratio: 19.16
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Required ratio: 0.50
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for every upload there must be a download.
for every download there must be an upload.
It must be symmetrical, meaning that you boasting, you being better than other people is only possible because others aren’t good enough.
