• bdonvr@thelemmy.clubOPEnglish
    100·
    2 months 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
      39·
      2 months 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·
      2 months 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.

      • maxprime@lemmy.mlEnglish
        19·
        2 months 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.deEnglish
    43·
    2 months 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.

      • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
        111·
        2 months ago

        It’s strange that people know how to create and share torrents but not open a port or install an FTP server.

        • Magicalus@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          6·
          2 months ago

          My friends aren’t tech nerds, they dont want to do that stuff unfortunately. Qbittorent is simple enough for them to adopt without complaint.

          • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            I’m surprised none of the tech companies have a service that lets you share any size file from your own PC, and then slurp at it for their AI on the way through…

    • Petter1@lemm.eeEnglish
      12·
      2 months 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.

  • HumanPersonEnglish
    17·
    2 months 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·
      2 months 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.

      • HumanPersonEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        I’ve got like half a gig down and 20 ish mbps up. I also limit it to less because family and stuff.

  • PiJiNWiNgEnglish
    16·
    2 months ago

    Thanks for making up for my shortcomings <3

  • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
    132·
    2 months 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.

  • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.mlEnglish
    10·
    2 months ago

    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