Seeding Priorities in utorrent

[TP635]

I was seeding at my max but then I stopped it all to go play Call of Duty 4 online and when I restarted it, I couldn't connect to any leechers, no matter what. And now my ratio is gonna die

Don't stop them; pause them.

[1000possibleclaws]

k, I'm seeding 119 torrents at the moment.
42 are whatcd and alot of those are staff picks with like 500 seeds.
theres 8 waffles and i've uploaded all of them, and those are what im worried about
theres 11 stmusic torrents, i seed until i hit 1:1 there which is pretty fast cuz theres lots of leechers
theres about 35 more music torrents from specialized sites that im seeding

as you can see 95 out of 120 torrents are music torrents, so whatever, they'll get it in a couple hours or at most a day, i don't see a problem with that.

then 10 are 'placeholder' 1 kb torrents, i guess so that i wont have to worry about inactivity on some trackers that i dont frequent.

then the last few torrents are dvdr's, and yeah those people will get slow speeds on them but at least i'm not hit and running them so they can deal with it lol

[athenaesword]

umm yeah.

its no good seeding a torrent for 50 days and having an average upload of 2KBs on the thing (thats probably why you have had to seed it for 50 days)

I just pitty the leechers tbh, you probably got the torrent fast, and then your seeding that many torrents, your giving 1-2kbs to each one, ok great for your global ratio and e-penis on the trackers that your seeding at. but a pain in the arse for the leechers that want to get those torrents from you.

especially if your the only seed on a few of them (even 5-10 seeds)

also someone finishes it, becomes a seeder, has a ratio of over 1, as your not uploading, thinks ah well there is another seed on, i can just jump off, a leecher jumps on, gets 1KBs from you. but he cant ask for a reseed, as your seeding it. it would be better for him if you just left it, then he could ask for a reseed, and then get a faster speed on it.

I just cant get my head around members seeding over 10 torrents on BCG, never mind 100, and what is being said in this post is 400 torrents over all trackers.

and ppl complain about SB taking their bw, its usually members seeding to many torrents at one, and not giving enough to each torrent that the problem.

/end rant but it is something that realy narks me off lol

if everyone seeded what they downloaded it wouldnt' be that big a problem really. with 50 seeds x 2kB/s u'll still get a pretty healthy speed. and u have to bear in mind that with 400 torrents seeding it's highly unlikely that all of them are being leeched at once, especially if it's a music tracker like waffles/what. heck, u'd be glad even 10% of them are being leeched.

and btw, what you just described of that person who leaves when he's gotten the torrent later than you because he has a ratio above one is actually a classic case of hit and run. that's the reason why there're torrents on what.cd that have 10 snatches and 1 seeder. bittorent thrives on having a high number of peers (seedboxes not included). if everyone seeded what they downloaded, u'll get healthy torrents even if each individual uploads at a slow speed.

edit: response to your later post: yeah if u're the uploader, by all means it makes sense to open up your bw to that particular torrent. =]

[stoi]

k another rant then im going to bed lol

Bittorrent is not Emule or kazaa but thats what its turning out to be.

Emule you have loads of files on your PC and you give bits of each one at a slow rate to whoever requests it, so usually downloads are slow.

your doing the same thing with torrents, loads of torrents = bw spread out over them = slow downloads for leechers.

In over 5 years of using torrents, the maximum number of torrents i have ever had in my client is 6, and i felt realy bad having that many going.

And if i actually upload a torrent (used to do a lot before not so much now)then i stop all other torrents and give my full BW to that one im uploading, as i am the initial seed and no one else is going to take the burden off me, so its all down to me to get it out there as fast as possible.

/end this rant but i will probably be back later with another lol

as to the post above me, 50 X 2KBs - healthy speed, not if there is 20 leechers it wont be.

[1000possibleclaws]

well stoi, you are a bittorrent hero