It’d be nice if we can have some kind of standard for torrents so we don’t have a bunch of duplicates on our system.
For something like games, it just doesn’t make sense to have the torrent and the install. It takes up so much space.
Portable installs are always best.
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Don’t worry, it will stall at 99.9% forever
I hate how relatable this is.
I did that.
And rightfully so, I was a 15 year old in a third world country with a beat up compaq computer to download movies overnight. I couldn’t seed cuz my father would find out I wasted the internet.
Today, I can seed and have a 26TB hard drive, I preserve old movies in my native language (Telugu) and seed them.
Do we need people to learn about seeding and ratios? Definitely. But I believe in
Today’s leechers are tomorrow’s seeders.
And don’t blame them.
I leech because i have a 1mbps upload speed and if i’m uploading using that then my download speeds tank rendering my connection useless.
I’m moving in the next year and when i get a place with more than ADSL you bet i’m setting up a seedbox
as a protonvpn user i can’t seed even if i want to :/
worst thing: if i turn off my vpn i’ll be abt. 2000€ poorer
switching to mullvad soon
Please take a look at I2P. So much better then a VPN. And we need more seeders.
I honestly don’t understand your comparison of providers… Proton has port forwarding (with all paid packages afaik) which Mullvad discontinued? Is there something I’m missing?
i can definitely seed with proton, though ive been using a seedbox fos everything recently
Yeah, I’m on Proton with a port forwarded, no problem at all seeding, which is why I’m confused… I moved to Proton to get forwarding after Mullvad dropped it.
There are clients with a “stop seeding” button that works prior to finishing the download. Just sayin’. Still seeds while it’s active, but stops right after.
This is how you end up with a 99.7% completed gzip of bob Dylan’s entire catalog and have to restart on a new, uncompressed stream that’s 10x larger
Fortunately the significantly improved download speed from the 6 heroic always-online seeders mitigated your concerns somewhat. But where were they before?
Maybe one day ProtonVPN will fix their port-forwarding for their configuration files, I haven’t seen anyone else complain about this and their support is oblivious that this function even exists.
For people wondering the Learn More link just tells you what port forwarding does.
Try taking a look at the way glueten implements port forwarding with protonvpn. Hopefully it helps you piece together a script that works for your setup.
https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun/discussions/2686
https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun-wiki/blob/main/setup/advanced/vpn-port-forwarding.md
Looking at the docs, it seems like that toggle enables UPnP, so the rest of the setup should be on the torrent client to announce that it needs an external port, and the VPN and torrent client should handle things from there. Maybe you can lookup the docs for your torrent client and see if there’s anything extra to use UPnP?
I mean I’ll give it a try, their support flat out said they don’t support port forwarding for WireGuard configs which is why I never used the feature, but if it’s truly using UPnP than it may be worth a shot!
As for router setups, the Port Forwarding feature is unfortunately not yet officially tested and supported, therefore, I will be unable to provide any specific steps for setting it up and creating a port mapping on your Asus router, nor guarantee that this specific scenario would work as intended. Our team will consider testing it on router setups as well in the future, however, at this moment, I am unable to provide any specific time-frames or further details. I apologize for the inconvenience that this may cause you.
Edit: https://protonvpn.com/support/port-forwarding-manual-setup#wireguard looks promising!
Isn’t that what streamio effectively does?
Question: does a debrid server avoid that? Do debrid providers seed?
My understanding is that debrid servers do not seed, which is the primary reason I’ve been turned off to the idea of using one
Yep. And that’s why I hate those users. Damn leeches
I do think this is the real issue, these programs like Kodi and stremio do exactly that.
No one wants my seed.
I don’t know about you guys, but I set mine to stop seeding at a 2.0 ratio. Give more than you get. That’s the way I think it should be.
Highest I’ve seeded before stopping was 2000x, on about 30 or so titles. And everything from my home connection lol
A better way is to just limit connections and upload speed and seed forever. If your total connections is like 25 and your max upload is like 100 KB/ps, it doesn’t affect your internet or anything although you should use a VPN and stuff, and it helps to keep those files out there with a complete source for a long time.
The more seeders, the likelier I’ll probably give 2.0.
But I’ll keep everything seeded as long as I have storage available.Depends on the torrent tbh, if it has loads of seeders already i don’t really care.
Why would you do that? We should all keep on seeding as long as possible.
Cause I don’t have infinite storage. My seedbox has 4TB.
but seeding more does not cost storage. why not let it seed until you delete it?
if it’s so that you can see which ones can you delete, just click on the ratio column to sort by that, and check which ones have a higher ratio
Because most people aren’t using the files as stored in the download folder. They’re renaming it, moving it to another folder, and deleting all the extra files. So you’d have to store it twice basically.
No.
Seedboxes just arent (usually) used as streaming servers.
So we fetch the downloads from the server and purge unpopular/non-important torrentsAs the other comment says, use hardlinks and then you can have several copies of the file across the same partition all reference the same file, using just the storage space needed for one copy of the file. Still RAR files will need to be extracted first, so those would require just about twice the file size, but hopefully people stop using rar, so that’s not a concern.
My media server is not the same as my seed box.
If you’re copying a file to another server there’s still no reason to delete it on the seedbox until you have to.
I’m guessing your seedbox is always on?
So why not use a shared folder?
Here’s a tip: after moving the folder (idk if this counts after renaming a folder or file, probably doesn’t), go into your torrent client and click Force Recheck on the torrent. it’ll recheck everything and continue seeding the file.
This is one of the great things about the *arrs. They will create a hardlink to the file in your media folder structure so that you can keep seeding and have a well organized/named media library without wasting storage.
Prior to that, I also just saved my torrents directly to my media library, and used the torrent manager to rename the local file properly. Same thing effectively, just a lil more work.
True, unless you’re the only one seeding a particular thing. It’s good to keep media alive and available, especially obscure stuff.
Valid, although I prefer the 24/7 seed to infinity method.
Can confirm.
I would seed if people ever used me. I only have so much space, and everytime I try to seed, there’s either nobody downloading, or theirs a hundred other seeders.
Have you checked if you have the port used by your torrent software forwarded?
Is it possible to obtain stats what seed ratio you need to get to on average for a torrent not to die?
It really depends on the tracker in use. I tend to stick to private trackers, so I feel relatively safe stopping seeding at a ratio of 2-3. For public trackers, your ratio would have to be pretty dang high because most people stop seeding on those.
I meant more like where would you get these data from? I guess the most precise would be to actually seed a bunch of torrents to different ratios and then test retrievability after X months.
god i even hate pausing seeding for even an hour cause i’m like BUT WHAT IF SOMEONE WANTS IT???
you’re the hero we don’t deserve
Is that Matt & Marisha?
