• bdonvr@thelemmy.clubOP
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    6 days ago

    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.

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      6 days ago

      This is great advice. It’s easy to get disheartened with a spinning torrent, but heroes like you can turn that around.

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      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.

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        5 days ago

        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!

  • Magicalus@discuss.tchncs.de
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    5 days ago

    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.

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    5 days ago

    I have so many files that have been stalled at >95% for months.

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      5 days ago

      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.

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        4 days ago

        Good point. There are some where it’s just a few miscellaneous files missing.

  • Tregetour@lemdro.id
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    In terms ot total data moved, I have 2.4TiB up on a Star Trek full season pack, for a ~35 ratio. That torrent’s been around for years and I suspect won’t die for many years yet. Oldest seeded torrent would be about 8 years.

    This is behind NAT, 12mbits upstream.

  • Uiop@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 days ago

    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.