Feels very redditty, which is why I’m asking…
Also, what are total buffer size (what does it affect) and session waste (what does it affect)? qbittorrent-nox on Linux.
Feels very redditty, which is why I’m asking…
Also, what are total buffer size (what does it affect) and session waste (what does it affect)? qbittorrent-nox on Linux.
I have (need) a seedbox and can’t really relate. But if you host it on your server that can perma-run it’s not much different to what I am using.
And just seeding will not guarantee any traffic. I have torrents that I cross-seed with wildly different ratios.
My advice:
See if you are even reachable (port-forward/no cg-nat)
Try to move to a system that can 24/7
That still involves downloading shit you don’t want just to get ratio. Which is kinda stupid IMO
I’m running 24/7, I’ve got one torrent running for 2 years with a ratio of 10 (and not even a small one) while most things get 0 kB up in even a year.
No? I just download what I want and try to seed it 1:1 (which is hard on private).
Maybe in the beginning you need to do it to build up buffer and not download yourself into a leech-role.
But once (my threshold is about 1:250gb (down/up) in ratio) built up, you can just coast along provided you arent downloading every remux you come across.
And the racing is a serious issue, yes.
BUT even I can’t compete even with my gbit upload because I am limited by HDDs and the serious ratio farmers use SSDs.
If I seed stuff it usually comes out to 2-10 mbps for maybe 2,3,4 minutes and that’s it.
Only the very large (>200GB) torrents are leeched of for longer from me. Probably because so few do continue to seed those behemoths.
I have torrents from a tracker that is particular hard to build ratio on.
Seeding since 2022 and a ratio of .6
Heres more:
So no, a seedbox is not the ultimate cheat you make it out to be.
But it helps circumventing the networking issues :-)
Unless your home internet has multi-gigabit upload, you’ll never be able to compete with seedbox users when new uploads drop and everyone is downloading them at the same time. Your seedbox can upload at 10x-100x the rate my home internet can which is why seedbox users capture all the seeding credit on new uploads. Once a file has been out a day or two, the only people downloading are new users or people who aren’t using automation tools like sonarr/radarr which are few and far between.
The tradeoff here is that your seedbox storage capacity several orders of magnitude lower than my 50TB home server, so I can keep these files seeding forever much like the parable about the tortoise and the hare (though without the deeper meaning).