Is there any downside to leaving something seeding indefinitely? Typically I just leave all my torrents seeding whenever I'm done 24/7 (whenever the VPN is on) but is there any detrimental issues to seeding too much?

It doesn't bother me I was just curious if there was ever a such thing as too much seeding since I have like 20+ things seeding and maybe one thing downloading.

Speed isn't an issue since I have gigabit internet.

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[–] RiQuY@lemm.ee 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (7 children)

If your router is the one that your ISP provided, torrenting can affect your internet connection stability by having too many connections active, because most of the time that hardware is trash (at least from my experience).

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Most (all?) torrent clients support limiting the number of active connections. This should prevent your router from being overloaded.

In my experience 500 shouldn't be a problem. On that note, limiting upload bandwidth to something less than the available upload bandwidth is important too.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 2 points 5 days ago (3 children)

250 active connections is the limit with my ISP provided router. You can get beyond that, but it causes a lot of instability, and eventually, the network fails and the router reboots.

On another note, I don't limit my bandwidth at all and I've managed to get uploads/downloads of up to 142% the speed which I should get.

[–] SaltySalamander@fedia.io 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

250 active connections is the limit with my ISP provided router

So buy your own.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 1 points 4 days ago

Yeah I know I should, and it's on my list, but I haven't changed it yet lol. I'm making it work like this and if I can stretch it until they replace it for a more capable model, that's money that I don't have to spend on it.

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