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!
I always lose my seeds because I like to rename my files. Any workarounds?
Keep the files in a dedicated torrents folder then make symlinks to where you actually want them?
Change the file name in the torrent client :)
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
Hardlinking files to their new destination and your normalized naming schema. Using symlinks would be madness.
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.)You can back up those by copying ~/.local/share/qBittorrent and ~/.config/qBittorrent
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 -ainstead of just drag’n’drop in dolphin…I mean, dragging and dropping in dolphin worked for me… Idk…
It’s just that the original timestamps are lost that way. With
cp -aI 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…
Wow I didnt realize I was this close…I just use a Debrid service for my torrents now. Consistent 1Gbps download speeds and no ratios to worry about. It’s way better (and cheaper) than a private tracker or a seedbox.
Had any trouble finding obscure stuff?
No more than I would if I used a Torrent client instead of Debrid. You’re still downloading the same torrents as everyone else. (I don’t really understand the question.)
With torrents you’re limited to the networks and sources that you have connected. The torrent client search for example is very limited, that’s where the trackers come in.
The question is how debris compares to stuff that is not found on public trackers.
An easy test are niche audiobooks or foreign movies - those are quite rare/specialized.
IDK I only use public trackers.
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.
Thank you for your service.
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You can still seed without port forwarding. This machine is running behind Mullvad
Is there a guide? I have the same problem.
Edit: seems like that one person in the swarm has to have port forwarding enabled. So if you can’t port forward, you need someone else to and then you can upload to them.
Did proton have a leg to stand on with the Swiss authorities? I’m only just learning about this case
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AirVPN is the other choice here that offers port forwarding still.
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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.
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.
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.
Giving back is good but once I realize how much I hate companies that own the media I have been seeding these Linux iso extra hard out of spite!
This is the way.
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“Session waste”?
Me with lemmy on the toilet.
What are you using? I need to carve time out to get my unraid server to work with jellyfin and arr and seed with deluge. My current set up moves the files to the right folder once I have completed my download so I never get over 1.0 ratio.
pretty proud of my ratio of 6 yrs
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
yeah, I mostly download free seeds and I don’t think that adds to the download count, I’ve definitely downloaded more than 500gb
Normal ratio on private sites with free seed torrents because your download is heavily distorted
This reminds me that I had to limit my public seeding.
Accidentally did 65TB in 18 days.
Yeah… It’s still going so fuck it.
To be fair this is actually a linux ISO.
Between my bad Internet connection and my apparent tendency to be the very last person who decides to download any given torrent, I just gave up and paid my private tracker to ignore my seed ratio ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Maybe your VPN or internet doesn’t have port forwarding? That severely limits seeding potential.
I seed with out port forwarding yeah it aint much but over time it is works out.
Port forwarding more than 10xed my seeding so if you can give that a shot.
Yay! Good job. Keep going!
Those are rookie numbers. You need to pump those numbers up.
