I see this is rather old, but I just saw it and it still may be interesting to others.

The way you can do this is with hardlinks. They're more or less filesystem-level shortcuts, so you can have multiple "files" with different names and even different file extensions - all pointing to the same file on the disk.

You can add hardlinks with the program called Link Shell Extension. (Symlinks won't work if the torrent client tries renaming the file).

You also can use the program called DupeGuru to automatically look for duplicates and replace them with hardlinks.

@eobox91103 Perhaps you have donated to the site? Other people do report the limits on simultaneous leeching.

And, yeah, this can snowball in both directions - you have enough ratio, so you comfortably download more and right away, so you can just keep seeding it and maintain the ratio. And vice versa - when your ratio is low, you download a few files, or hope for a freeleech - then, when it doesn't happen even your best attempts at seeding won't be enough.

When some people have 10x the upload speed or more, and have external IP addresses, meaning people can connect to them, giving them maybe 5x more peers, looks like only large, 50-100GB torrents can leave enough room for everyone.

@frostycab

Even with seedboxes you don't necessary want to download videos you're not going to watch. But I guess some people would just be OK being a CDN for other people with the seedbox, and then download what they want from their home PC.

@frostycab

Symlinks seem to be more popular - people use them e.g. when moving installed games from one disk to another. I've been using them for years. Tried them with uTorrent a few years ago - and it didn't work, apparently because it's adding ".!ut" to incomplete files, and it breaks the link. Only now I tried hard links - and it works. And with DupeGuru you can even remove duplicates from overlapping packs, but still keep seeding them all, thanks to hard links.

@frostycab The daily limit for downloaded torrent files per day is indeed pretty much irrelevant. But there's also the limit for simultaneous "leeching" - and it's a lot more restrictive. Even the best case scenario is 15 torrents at the same time - even if it's something you downloaded 2 years ago and keep seeding a partial download. Lowering your ratio supposedly makes this limit lower. So lowering your ratio makes it even more difficult for you to seed partial downloads over time (improving ratio) and to do partial downloads (preserving ratio).

@ianfontinell-0

It's definitely 15 for me - might depend on the ratio. It used to be 12 for me, as far as I recall, when my ratio was around 1.05.

@frostycab

The buffer is only what's above 1 though. Going lower will limit the number of torrents you can leech simultaneously - meaning you can't seed them all either - making it even harder to maintain ratio.

The only problem is that you're limited to 15 torrents being "leeched" at the same time, so I often have to decide which partially downloaded torrents to keep seeding.

I see this is rather old, but I just saw it and it still may be interesting to others.

The way you can do this is with hardlinks. They're more or less filesystem-level shortcuts, so you can have multiple "files" with different names and even different file extensions - all pointing to the same file on the disk.

You can add hardlinks with the program called Link Shell Extension. (Symlinks won't work if the torrent client tries renaming the file).

You also can use the program called DupeGuru to automatically look for duplicates and replace them with hardlinks.