background; i had all my torrents seeding forever and i never set a limit mostly because when i set up qbittorrent i was new and never really went into options.
i want to be able to control and limit the bandwidth i use but is 50kb/s during the day/10kb/s at night unreasonable? i dont want to be rude or make it hard for people to get things but i also just don’t want thinks to balloon out of control (before i just keep everything in seeding perpetually just because i never bothered to look).
am i being unreasonable with limits? i obviously dont want to download and just stop; i always want to at least share back to at least 1.
these are mostly public trackers btw
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It’s not the rate, it’s the ratio.
True, but tbf the rate helps the ratio, especially for those that don’t seed indefinitely.
No one cares or will even notice your lack of participation.
Some seeders have amazing infrastructure and can seed in an hour what would take you a year on a residential connection.
This is not an “if everyone did that” problem because not everyone has limited residential bandwidth.
If youre worried about moral obligations adopt a few torrents with very low numbers of seeders to ensure they dont die.
Alternatively, you could rent a seed box for a month and upload 5 years worth.
It’s not really rude, no one really knows what your top upload speed is or how much of it you have to be able to use. Many people out there torrenting have horrible upload and download speeds but the benefit of the torrent protocol is that a bunch of people seeding a file with horrible upload speed can still result in fast downloads for you.
The only ones who might take issue with it are private trackers who might require that people have fast uploads or upload a lot in a specific time frame.
Exactly this. I have great download speeds, but shit upload. Like, we’re talking 175 Mb/s down but only like 10 Mb/s up.
So, I typically limit my speed to 10 KiB/s (0.41 Mb/s) whenever my spousy is home so as not to hog the bandwidth. Lol.
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Exactly.
Public trackers? No, nobody cares. On private trackers, where sharing and keeping the content alive is important, share ratios are often tracked very closely, and you can be banned if you aren’t sharing enough back.
Unless you don’t have unlimited broadband data I don’t see why you would have upload limits. Maybe you would want to limit it to 70% of your upload bandwidth so it doesn’t interfere with other connections but 50kb/s seams really low.
Ive had downloads that went on for months because there was one seeder at like 15-20kbps constantly, and one that would pop on and push a few megs but really intermittently.
I’m in the “who cares as long as you seed” camp as well.
Keep the attitude and do what you can! Its very from each as per their ability for each as per their need.
I used to. My current router seems to handle QoS gracefully, so I haven’t found a need to. For the last year or so, I’ve been seeding everything until it gets > 2 ratio and there are > 10 seeders, otherwise I just keep seeding. I just looked, and I have one torrent with > 200 ratio, lol.
I generally seed to a ratio of 10, but if it is popular with lots of seeds I’ll stop it early, anything with under 10 seeds I have set to seed for ever - some of them are now into the 1000’s for the ratio
So my point is maybe choose what to seed rather than limit the speed - but no judgment as long as you give something back
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if you don’t have any data caps then it just doesn’t make any sense to cap your uploads.
I don’t think they were referring to capping their uploads, but to capping their upload speeds.
yes. it doesn’t make any sense to cap neither upload total or upload speed unless they have some sorta data cap
