Bandwidth disparity and maintaining ratios.

[s0nuvab|tch]

*update*

Been busy working, but haven't forgot you guys.
Wanted to thank everybody once again for all the help. (this includes the MODS too, and you know who you are )
Though I stumbled out of the gate, thanks to finally figuring out how to seed a .torrent, I've been able to max out my bandwidth and get my ratio up. That damn movie will likely never see 100% i.e. 1:1 ratio, but it's still sloooowly creeping its way up towards .60 and I'll let it keep going, but the leeches are few.

Thought I'd try my hand at posting a screenshot to show how I've been doing. I really hate the fact that I can download over 4 gigs in 1.25 hrs. yet it takes 96+hrs. of constant seeding to get ~.60! Still much to learn I'm sure.

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[whiteboy]

Dude 240 kb/s up from your house is great!

[sear]

Dude 240 kb/s up from your house is great!

Agreed, that's about twice my speed

[dbmp]

Good job, you're doing just fine.

[s0nuvab|tch]

Dude 240 kb/s up from your house is great!

It's actually 365kb/s and supposed to be 512

Agreed, that's about twice my speed

Very sorry to hear that Sear. I hope one day you can improve your situation. I should be grateful (?) I guess? lol
I've just got my knickers in a twist because of reading about all those basturds in Sweden with the friggin Fiber to Home!
Lucky sods! 100Mb for the 'premium' and 10Mb for the 'poor man' package. OMG, that's some insane bandwidth.



When I chose the title for this thread, this is why...





It seems that here in the US, having very little upload speed is a good way to discourage bittorrenting.
Nobody seemed to mention this...


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[kaoblanco]

Ouch. I get about 240 kBps from my home and bemoan that fact.

Granted, I have to cross large spans of water or land-of-rusting-infrastructure to get to other torrenters by which time that's about halved.

Still, with wise torrenting practices you can still make out with good ratios. You'll just not get them as easy as others. There's always usenet (and, no, I'm not trying to rub salt in the wound or something ).

[sear]

Very sorry to hear that Sear. I hope one day you can improve your situation. I should be grateful (?) I guess? lol
I've just got my knickers in a twist because of reading about all those basturds in Sweden with the friggin Fiber to Home!
Lucky sods! 100Mb for the 'premium' and 10Mb for the 'poor man' package. OMG, that's some insane bandwidth.

I do fine on about 80-150 KBps which is just under 1Mbps. Don't feel too sorry for me I got the upper case and lower case mixed up

btw if anyone has some advice on increasing my upload speed...well I would like to hear it

[shazzar]

I am in the same boat as you with an upload speed of around 240 Kps. Also thinking of using one of my pc's as a torrent server or getting a seedbox.

Have been on sct, bitmetv and oink, The three hardest sites to keep a good ratios since it seems like almost everyone there has a seedbox or a very fast internet connection. You be lucky to manage a 1-1 ratio on them sites if you download regularly.

Howere its not impossible. I tend to keep my pc on 24/7 and download the following:

1. latest (oday) torrents to up my ratios. Small size torrents like x rated porn are ideal since your not taking too much of a risk.

2. Popular complete Tv series as they will always have leechers for a very long time. you dont need to download the whole series if your not going to watch them but a few chapters will do. However need to be careful as alot of other people might do the same and you will find then most of the downloaders showing are only partial seeders like you and you wont get any uploading. Its best to either get in early or go for smaller size and less popular series where there might be less partial seeders like you and more people actullay downloading the whole seires.

3. Divx movies. I find downloading only dvd quality movies take up too much space and some are hard to seed back. so i only tend to download dvd quality movies if i really like to watch a particular movie in dvd quality (as divx seems just fine to for me and i have a divx player with usb hard drive input).

Also dont give up on ones that aint uploading even with leechers as you will find that on other days they will start uploading, especially the popular movies/drama series.

[Brenya]

Nice ratio. I have found that OiNK is the only site I really need (Besides demonoid... of course) A site founded on music is a good site indeed. It's also really easy to seed back, even with my sh*tty upload speed (243kbps)

[Alkameno]

that is 240 kbps...I guess thats not enough...But still you can work with it on trackers which are easy to seed but prepare to keep your system awake for days.