Lack of seeding ability
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I want to support this community. But whatever I download, no matter how long I leave the torrent working, very little content is seeded. So my ratio always goes down, never up, no matter how long I leave the torrent active.
I'm also happy to donate, and I have done so, several times. But how can I increase my ratio when the seeding is so limited?
Happy to hear any perspectives on this. Thanks.
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@padredenny It has become extremely difficult to maintain a positive ratio in the last few years, I don't even notice it happening... I just remember that I used to have a very high ratio and recently it's been slowly decreasing, which has innevitably prompted in a change of my behavior, now I'm much more careful with what I choose to download, and as a result I have less active torrents, reducing my seeding capacities even further.
I have stopped downloading anything that isn't freeleech, unless it's something that I REALLY crave and failed to find somewhere else. This is only effective in preventing your ratio to go down, it has barely no effect whatsoever in improving the ratio.
The only proper action one is able to take is start uploading their own massive torrents, which has become a standard. Someone needs to build their ratio so they go and upload a 100GB torrent, meaning someone will go and download 100GB risking to never seed it enough to make up for the spent bytes, so now this person will need to upload their own massive torrent. The result is simply a fuckload of massive torrents that nobody care about, they just sit there forever with a couple of seeders.
If I recall correctly, the last tweak/update that was made to the ratio algorithm happened 10 years ago, the issues that prompted those changes have been replaced with newer issues and, from my own experience, those have been going unaddressed since then.
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@ this moment rationator is too aggressive ...
1 GB upload seed = + 1 point only [b4=500 MB] / 1 GB of download - 100 or more
2 GB partial seed [b4 1.5 GB] = 1 point only
so it's a total waste of bandwidth if you're not aware ... -
@john32123666 I don't understand your rationator post. Could you be more verbose in your explanation?
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On a related topic, I have found that although I still prefer Utorrent, there are some times when Utorrent just does not perform consistently. For instance, sometimes it won't download a torrent, but when I put the same torrent in Qbittorrent it DOES download. -
@ianfontinell-0 Just as an example, I took a chance and downloaded a large torrent that had a lot of leechers, thinking it could increase my ratio.
But after more than 24 hours of seeding, my ratio on this torrent is just 0.03.
That's not sustainable.
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Pardon the obvious question, but are your ports fully forwarded both TCP and UDP?
Do torrents show up as green or do they show up as yellow/blue or "firewalled"/"obfuscated", etc?If they're green, then the direct answer to having a ridiculous ratio is...
Seedbox: ~$5-8/month for up to 4TB of upload/month from a variety of vendors.
(More $$$ = more TB/month. I've seen 120TB/month... keep in mind you actually have to have the demand for that, though.
Download the freeleech to that and let it crank 24/7. If you time it right, you can easily get a TB or more per week.
Also, if you have any bonus points, it might be worthwhile to make a torrent freelech for a day and let it seed for tens of GB vs trading that for 1GB.The root cause of why you don't seed well with a large number of leechers is quite simple: BT clients were designed in a time when computers were single core and... 512MB of RAM on the high end. They put extremely low limits on how many peers you can have to prevent the computers of the time from being overloaded. Now, you yourself can up those limits, but the 99% of users will only connect to 10, 25, 100 users at most. If there are 300 peers and their client is set to 25 max peers/torrent (or 100 total global connections and they have 15 torrents going, etc.) you only have like a <10% chance they'll even hit you.
Because the people who know how to up the peer count do that, they have a much higher chance of catching that incoming request and fulfilling it as well.
(i.e. 300 users looking for connection, if you set it to 300, you can serve all incoming requests. If set to 25, your client will reject incoming requests once that 25 is satisfied.) Further, because those 25 active connections might be at 0.02Kbps, it'll reject the gigabit requests coming from people with a fat pipe. And we all know how tragic that is.
