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.dev 39 points 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.dev 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 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.ml 63 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I, too, am a seeder.

[–] Txmyx@feddit.org 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

For how long are you doing this and what's your upload speed?

[–] maxprime@lemmy.ml 19 points 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!

[–] tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Welcome aboard!

Arrr!

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 6 points 2 months ago

🫡

[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I have so many files that have been stalled at >95% for months.

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago

Good point. There are some where it's just a few miscellaneous files missing.

[–] ThunderLegend@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 months ago

Arr!

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[–] Sentau@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 months ago

Damn. You have my respect.

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[–] PiJiNWiNg@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 months ago

Thanks for making up for my shortcomings <3

[–] HumanPerson@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.club 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] HumanPerson@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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

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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 2 months ago

just checked mine i didn't think i was that high but i generally just leave it running all day

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 months ago

Sharing is caring <3

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 11 points 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.

[–] _thebrain_@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months 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

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 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

[–] catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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.ee 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] zer0squar3d@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Pretty sure it's programmed to reset at night from the ISP themselves, so not much luck there.

Also I have in the past for emails, but that was before I got my VPN subscription. Nothing since then, but I ain't chancing it.

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[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Shame upon myself. 50tb this year DL, 0 UL. But hey, it's usenet, so that's perfectly fibe 😁

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

what about usenet makes that different? I've never used it

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Besides it being around since forever and predecessing all forums and reddit etc.

It's main selling points for pir8s are:

max speed (depending on your uplink and your provider ofc. E.g. I get a solid 120mb/s)
up to maaany years retention (how old the stuff you want could be. Depends on provider ofc. Currently 11yrs from the top of my head)
no need to upload or be member of trackers to get the GOOD stuff. It's all the same to everyone.
it's still not really mainstream (luckily) and hence less dmcas

Downsides compared to torrents?

in theory torrents can be as old as torrent itself. In reality torrents die quickly.
no social component like if you're really engaged in some private tracker
to have it efficiently you'd either one or more indexers (like search-engines). There are free ones but they suck. And/or forums. As much stuff is encrypted/obfuscated for obvious reasons.

Overall I'm a cheapskate and pay like 2€/month for unlimited usenet with maximum retention and 50 connection on the best backbone plus 2x 10-12€ a year for indexers. But one totally would be sufficient.

In the end, we enter a movie/series-name, pick the right one from the results, wait a bit for the download and sorting to happen, then watch it in emby comfortably. The comfortable kind of piracy i dreamt of for nearly 3 decades 😊

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[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

hero

[–] Tregetour@lemdro.id 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In terms ot total data moved, I have 2.4TiB up on a Star Trek full season pack, for a ~35 ratio. That torrent's been around for years and I suspect won't die for many years yet. Oldest seeded torrent would be about 8 years.

This is behind NAT, 12mbits upstream.

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