Are you a leecher?

**phoen|x** · 02-03-2007, 12:05 PM

Usually i seed to 120-130% since i use a seedbox with capped monthly bandwith. However, if its a torrent with few seeds or crappy speed i seed 3-400%.

**PsychoDude** · 02-03-2007, 12:29 PM

I have my torrent client set to a seeding to like 10000000000000000%, anyways, so high it turns to negative -16k

. Do I ever reach that? Nope

.

I continue seeding just about everything I download unless I lose it due to hd crashes (not in the lame excuse form of just signing up and having downloaded too much, but actually hd's crashing after heavy usage

). Luckily hd crashes don't occur too often, just once every couple of years

.

So as long as there are leechers on things, I'll seed. Some torrents I have a ratio of 2500% on due to that, DVD sized things like go up to 1000% and massive packages of 30GB+ are like around 200% tops.

But as there is a tops, there's also the torrents with just 0.000 ratio, simply because there are no leechers on them. Can keep on running them for months without anyone else deciding to download it.

Overall my ratio of the past 6 months is on like 1.4 or something, so not bad. Looking at it theoretically, too high even. But we live in a world of leechers, so it's no prob

.

**smirnoff** · 02-03-2007, 12:52 PM

i seed about 150 - 200
thats seems to be good i think

**badenglish** · 02-03-2007, 01:58 PM

I seed until at least 150% on private trackers but usually keep going to 200% (sometimes 400% or 600%) if there is enough demand. I'm at school and I have a nice 1.5Mbps u/l capacity (but unfortunately behind a proxy

) so it's not too tough with my maximum download size usually being no more than 8GB.

**Phosfor** · 02-03-2007, 03:58 PM

It totally depends on what torrent, what tracker and the size of the torrent I'm downloading. On the trackers that are hard to maintain ratio (ScT, OiNK etc.) I seed as much as I can, but it's really hard to upload 5gb if you download somthing with 1gb in size (ie. 500%). On other trackers which are easy to maintain ratio I sometimes just seed until my download is done, but since I got 100mbit I usually upload pretty much during that time.