@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