Feels very redditty, which is why I'm asking...
Also, what are total buffer size (what does it affect) and session waste (what does it affect)? qbittorrent-nox on Linux.
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No? I just download what I want and try to seed it 1:1 (which is hard on private).
Maybe in the beginning you need to do it to build up buffer and not download yourself into a leech-role.
But once (my threshold is about 1:250gb (down/up) in ratio) built up, you can just coast along provided you arent downloading every remux you come across.
And the racing is a serious issue, yes.
BUT even I can't compete even with my gbit upload because I am limited by HDDs and the serious ratio farmers use SSDs.
If I seed stuff it usually comes out to 2-10 mbps for maybe 2,3,4 minutes and that's it.
Only the very large (>200GB) torrents are leeched of for longer from me. Probably because so few do continue to seed those behemoths.
I have torrents from a tracker that is particular hard to build ratio on.
Seeding since 2022 and a ratio of .6
Heres more:
So no, a seedbox is not the ultimate cheat you make it out to be.
But it helps circumventing the networking issues :-)
Huh? If you have .692 on a 4 year old torrent, that's a very good torrent to be seeding by my standards. I recently deleted a bunch of torrents added in 2024-2025 that were on 0.000-0.005 ratio. Almost nobody has downloaded them after me.
Of the ones I've downloaded this year, only one 2026 movie has been doing well. All the older stuff is super well seeded AND nobody's downloading.