Thank you so much for your detailed explanation, especially the torrent system part, really helped my understanding of the system. I use mac OS but I will try other clients, though I doubt uTorrent perform as well as it does on windows. Anyway, your answer is really helpful, newers like me should definitely read it 
@lololulu19:
Imagine that the original poster uploaded a 1GB file.
Generally (not always), that poster will have the full 1GB downloaded from him, and in the process several other people will be downloading different parts of that 1GB. Let's say there are 1 people downloading the poster's file.
Downloader:
#1 is downloading the first 100mb (hypothetically)
while
#2 is downloading the 2nd 100mb
#3 the 3rd 100 mb
etc.
until each of the 10 downloaders has a different 100 mb chunk of the video
THEN the poster and those 10 downloaders grab the parts from each other.
This is the ideal situation, but that isn't what actually happens.
Generally the original poster gets between 2 and 3 times the amount of download as is the size of their upload.
Generally, several people will have a copy of the video after 1 day, so don't expect a lot more download points to result after 1 day.
There are some exceptions to note. If you have a FAST internet connection, you will wind up getting the lion's share of download points.Â
Also, for various reasons which I don't fully understand, different torrent clients will download and/or upload files faster.
For instance, Utorrent and Bittorrent are written by the same company, and look and function identically.. but are compiled differently. BUT.. the file transfers under Utorrent are considerably FASTER. There is no best client. My favorite is Utorrent, but sometimes.. maybe 1 out of 200 torrents, Utorrent doesn't work.. I then use Bittorrent (same company - and LOOKS like the same program). Qbittorent is a different company, and VERY similar to Utorrent and Bittorent, but is easier to use and "friendlier". People using android, Apple, or other devices use an assortment of other clients. Beware of clients that are no longer supported - because at some point they are doomed to be obsolete. There are a large number of people who insist on sticking with the very old Utorrent 2.21. They are paranoid about new versions of Utorrent.. because for a long time, Utorrent put out very buggy versions - some nearly non-functional. Utorrent 2.21 is stable, but old. They have made a lot of improvements. and the current version which is 3.5.5 is quite stable. Hopefully future versions will remain stable. I have a little knowledge of the operations of Utorrent.. and it seems that they had one extremely stubborn idiot working there.. who is now GONE. That guy was the cause of the bad versions. Also, for a LONG time they were ignoring the feedback of their users - which is insane. I used to work for a software company which did NO testing of their own products! They would churn out software which was used for many things including doing PAYROLLS.. totally untested! They depended on their USERS to be the guinea pigs to find the bugs and report them.
I strongly advise people to download and seed all NEW Freeleech files whether they like them or not.
Another trick is to keep seeding GOOD huge files. Even after YEARS.. someone will come along and download that file.. and because it is so old, you will be the only one seeding it.. and get all the credit for it!
I personally think the ratio requirements are a bit too tight here. I would suggest that people were only "charged" for 50% of what they download.Â
Many years ago, this site got a daily flood of awful videos that were garbage - posted by people only interested in getting download credits. There were so many videos posted, that it was virtually impossible to keep up with all the posts and find the GOOD posts buried amongst the ocean of garbage. Those days are gone. The general quality of videos posted here has improved dramatically.
Lastly, I would suggest buying an EXTERNAL 8TB hard drive. Seagate makes them for about $150!  These drives are slow as mud, but extremely cheap, and do fine for using to seed your vast collection of videos. 8TB of NVME Evo Plus will cost you well over $4000. Standard NVME about half that. So.. $150 is nothing compared to other forms of storage.
