Am I missing an important setting?
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I'm just curious if there's some way of improving my uploading speeds specifically for this site. If I sort my completed torrent in my client by share ratio then things I've downloaded from here consistently show the lowest ratios when compared to the other 2 sites I visit.
While I'm aware that such things are largely based on how popular a download is, how quickly you join the swarm and some other factors, my current actively seeding files on here top out at a ratio of around 3:1 whereas I see 8 or 9 to 1 on another site and between 50 and 70 on the other.
Is there something I can do to improve my ability to share here, or is it purely down to the characteristics of the swarms I'm in?
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@frostycab said in Am I missing an important setting?:
Is there something I can do to improve my ability to share here, or is it purely down to the characteristics of the swarms I'm in?
It depends and relies on bandwidth and the peers in swarm you/them connected ...
Sometimes peers are/have limiting/limited bandwidth or the traffic ...
Just find a large torrent w/ few seeders and bunch of leechers, stop the torrent w/ inactive seeding ...
The less activity the more you gain ...
I am partially seeding a partial part of 8 Gb of 205 GB about a couple of days w/c I uploaded 40 GB of that and it helps ...
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@john32123666 I have tried that strategy in the past, but results haven't been much better. I just seem to get much higher upload speeds on torrents from the .net site, regularly seeing speeds in excess of 15Mb/s whereas on here I rarely get much over 1 or 2. It could just be luck of the draw, but thought I'd see if there might be something I'm missing in my client.
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@frostycab ... your best option is to modify your port connection default 6881 - 6889 or random ...
Peers from preferences/connection and 250/50/4 bandwidth for global max connection default values ...
You can also run test from set-up guide to refresh your status...
In case you are in seedbox, there might be a solution by reading "connectivity setting" on how to ... [do a web-search] ... -
@frostycab In the case of the torrents you've got going, I don't see anything that would prevent you from getting speed. What you may have on your hands however is a port forwarding issue. You need to make sure that the port that your torrent client uses is forwarded through your home router to your computer both in TCP and UDP. This is a necessary step for being able to get proper upload traffic on your seeding torrents. This is one area where we are different from most trackers.
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@frostycab said in Am I missing an important setting?:
If I sort my completed torrent in my client by share ratio then things I've downloaded from here consistently show the lowest ratios when compared to the other 2 sites I visit.
I notice a similar but different phenomenon: My highest share ratios are from this site:
but my upload volume to those other two sites is always much higher.How does this come about? Because of the high volume I get on those other sites, I have yooge ratios on those sites.and I usually download the entire torrent (i.e., all files). Here, with a slower upload, I tend to be selective and download only a few files from a give torrent. When someone does that, they're a magnet for other leechers and end end up sending that subset of the total material to the many other leechers. Note that the one at the bottom of the list, with an amazing ratio of 255, is one where I only downloaded 1.2% of the total content.
I'm pretty sure that my settings are OK: A week ago or so I raised this question and a moderator freeleeched several large torrents that I had uploaded. It created an online feeding frenzy that maxed out my upload bandwidth for three days. I think the small upload volume I get on this site is because of my choice of material to share and its perhaps limited appeal to other members. To each their own, of course, but they don't know what they're missing
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@eobox91103 I also guarantee that your port forwarding settings play a part. When you're a passive node on our tracker, your peer priority ends up working out to be much lower, so it becomes harder to get traffic, and when you actually do, you're usually seeding parts to peers who are seeking a slower speed for the part. It's kind of weird, but given our size, the alternative of supporting passive nodes would seriously increase our already heavy traffic loads and server demands.
