• Magicalus
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    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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    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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      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 actually didn’t post my highest ratio, I didn’t want to seem like a braggart

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          It’d be more interesting to see the “Real Uploaded” and “Real Downloaded” stats for this profile. The “Uploaded” stat can be padded by using bonus points, and the “Downloaded” stat does not include freeleech.

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            That is also why I didn’t post this proof originally. The real numbers for this one are less impressive.

            Real Uploaded 1.162 TiB

            Real Downloaded 744.29 GiB

            Real share ratio 1.599

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              Thanks for posting your numbers! An >1.5 ratio is still great. For example I’m below 1 as I don’t really get any upload on most things. They just don’t seem to get snatched much.

              Do you seed many audiobooks or mainly ebooks? I guess the former given your large amount of data downloaded.

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    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.

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      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

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    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.

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      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.

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    I would absolutely be a seeder if my router didn’t reset itself in the middle of the night. That, and I’d be worried about getting caught by my ISP, even with my VPN.

    Regardless, these people are the real heroes.

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      Add airflow to your router, common issue for overheating routers. May need to move it out into open, out of a closet or whatever.

      If your ISP hasnt sent you a letter yet then try something much more tracked like GoT and if you dont get one after a week then you should be fine.

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    One time I found a KDrama that changed my life (Crash Landing on You), and to thank the producers, I set up a dedicated seedbox for years that did nothing but seed their show :). I think I hit like 7TB uploaded before shutting it off

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    • 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

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    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.