• bdonvr@thelemmy.clubOPEnglish
    92·
    14 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.

    • silasmariner@programming.devEnglish
      36·
      14 days ago

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

    • derpgon@programming.devEnglish
      10·
      13 days ago

      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.

  • Magicalus@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    38·
    13 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.

    • Petter1@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      13 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.

  • HumanPerson@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    17·
    14 days ago

    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.

    • bdonvr@thelemmy.clubOPEnglish
      6·
      14 days ago

      God I wish I had symmetrical upload. Gigabit down and like, 125mbps up.

      Not so 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.

  • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
    13·
    14 days ago

    the beauty of decentralization, aint shit corpos can do about it lol

    get fucked, parasites. should have never fragmented streaming services into cable style bullshit.

  • catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    9·
    14 days ago

    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.

    • dmention7@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      13 days ago

      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

      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        13 days ago

        What I find got me a very high ratio were some high volume torrents (e.g. >500gb) that only few were considering seeding 24/7.
        So far those netted me the most ratio of anything I have done.

      • catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        13 days ago

        I believe I’m doing port forwarding correctly. I’m using a router with DumaOS installed so I’ve considered that that may be the problem. I haven’t heard symmetric connection mentioned before. I will do some googling. Thank you

  • _thebrain_@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    9·
    14 days ago

    • Joined: 9 years, 11 months ago

    • Last Seen: 19 secs ago

    • Uploaded: 137.847 TiB

    • Downloaded: 7.191 TiB

    • Ratio: 19.16

    • Required ratio: 0.50