I’ll admit, when I first started torrent I was not really familiar with how it worked and how important seeding was. I would just use magnet links without configuration to save the torrent and seed after completion. Well… I have finally, got myself back to 1.00 after a couple months and working to try to always seed double what I get for each torrent.

Often times I was one of the few random seeders available for some of these torrents. Friendly reminder to give back because you never know when you’re one of the rare cases that can complete someones long lost file download!

    • Zetta@mander.xyzEnglish
      7·
      6 days ago

      I mean have you really only downloaded less than 500gb or is almost everything free seed and doesn’t count on your download stats.

      Eitherway nice seeding, good job

      • eldereko@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        41·
        6 days ago

        yeah, I mostly download free seeds and I don’t think that adds to the download count, I’ve definitely downloaded more than 500gb

  • RedSnt 👓♂️🖥️@feddit.dkEnglish
    23·
    7 days ago

    That’s the spirit!
    My rule of thumb has always been to share to ratio 1.1. Side thought: Maybe there’s a funny correlation between birthrates needing to be 2.1 for a stable population, the extra .1 to make up for deaths, and well, the 2 is because it takes two to make a baby.

    Anyway, since we're all sharing, these are my stats from 41 days ago when I switched to Nobara.

     
    (Gigabit internet is the biggest luxury I allow myself to splurge on.)

      • RedSnt 👓♂️🖥️@feddit.dkEnglish
        3·
        6 days ago

        I did go out of my way to check creation date and modified date on those folders to try and assess whether I had copied the statistics over from my distrohop. Might’ve been old stats plus new, I’m not too sure. I should really start using cp -a instead of just drag’n’drop in dolphin…

          • RedSnt 👓♂️🖥️@feddit.dkEnglish
            2·
            5 days ago

            It’s just that the original timestamps are lost that way. With cp -a I would’ve kept the original “created on” date. My memory is so shot I can barely remember what I did last week, let alone 42 days ago, whether I copied over those stats or not…

  • drathvedro@lemm.eeEnglish
    81·
    6 days ago

    Ratios are a things of a past. I’m having trouble getting ratios as all of the torrents I have are straight zeros in the upload section. I still keep them around for a while just out of habit, but just to verify it’s working I’ve downloaded some random file with high leech ratio. Got it in fast, but upload is now going at less than 5% the upload capacity. Back in late 00s running torrents would instantly saturate the entirety of my 10mbit connection, and I’d like to think that terabytes I’ve seeded during that time make up for my abysmal ratios nowadays. But the reality is that there just simply is enough seeders already, and as a result the trackers I frequent to either dropped it entirely or switched to a scoring system based on how much and for how long people store obscure torrents that only few people seed, but I’m too short on drive space to participate in that.

  • pdqcp@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    12·
    7 days ago

    Way to go, keep it up!

    Took me a while to find the stats tab, I didnt know it was available lol

  • Pulptastic@midwest.socialEnglish
    14·
    7 days ago

    When I am seeding a torrent with less than 5 seeders I just let it go forever. So far I have about 15 of those. Eventually I’ll have to drop them… but I’ll be there hero until then.

      • bitwolf@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        6 days ago

        This is what I do as well

        I change the directory in my client. This moves the download to my preferred location for plex, etc. And it seeds from there instead

    • samc@feddit.ukEnglish
      102·
      7 days ago

      Keep the files in a dedicated torrents folder then make symlinks to where you actually want them?

  • eric@lemmy.caEnglish
    7·
    6 days ago

    My seed ratio is 1.2. I’d seed more, but I download a lot of different things and my home server is limited on space at the moment.

    • ButtDrugs@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      6 days ago

      I get a gig down but only 50mbps up (fucking spectrum), so I gotta limit seeding the same way or I’d just crush my upload speed all the time.

      • OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        6 days ago

        Spectrum is the shittiest company known to man. Double and triple billing, they bill a month ahead so your paying for service you haven’t yet used, horrible speed my as well be false advertising, customer support is terrible. They fraud charged and upsold services to get discounts which was a lock you in contract scam price. All time worst companies ever.