Do you hit and run or do you stick around? If you know what I mean...
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Do you hit and run or do you stick around? If you know what I mean...
I hit and run occasionally, but thats pretty rare, like I just finished dling and gota major urge to play BF2/CSS. 80% of the time I stick around for about a week.
such a strange way of asking that question...
Torrenting from my home connection (10/1), I generally seed public torrents to about 1.5-2.0, or however long they get to.
Private torrents, I generally seed for 1-3 weeks, or until the ratio climbs up to the 1.0+ neighborhood. On more competitive ratio sites, this is fairly difficult to do.
From ... faster places, I generally seed public to ~15.0+ and private to however far it goes before the torrent completely dies off (typically 2.0-3.0 on a good torrent).
If I'm particularly hurting for bandwidth and a torrent's eating what I need, I'll throttle it down or stop it altogether.
I used to be much more generous about my bandwidth, seeding until I needed space. But ultimately, on a private torrent going much above 1.0 is bad for the community, and on a reasonably large public swarm, well ... after 1.0ish I don't care anyway, I've got better uses for my upstream.
I used to hit & run, but because I took nearly 9 hours to download a file with my crappy 96k connection. When I migrated to 1024k I switched to direct downloads... my upload is crappy and Im never able to upload decently.
I try to seed to 2.0, and but since I hate uplaoding I also try to avoid torrents whenever possible.
always hit and run....though i tend to let my torrents run durign the nite so i dont have to deal with speed issues during normal activities. Most of the time the torrent will finish in a few hours, but it'll keep up'ing till i wake up 8-10 hours later.
I almost never care about seeding since most of the stuff i download comes from the eztv tracker, and by the time i have it downloaded theres like 20k seeders anyway. im not gonna waste my time seeding just to fulfill my patriotic duty. For torrents that have low seeders, i'll let it run, but if theres no peers, or i can't connect to any peers for whatever reason, i'll close it.
In my case,
1- Get the Torrent.
2- Download the file(s).
3- Once done, if it is a movie i leave utorrent On while watching and delete the torrent after its over, if a game/program/watever else, i just delete the torrent and install/run the thing i just downloaded.
That mean pretty much that i don't seed. Since for some reason, while uploading, even if it is just 10kb/s, i lag..(internet browsing goes slower/ program take longer to run, etc..)
( my awesome internet connection: http://www.videotron.com/services/en...tiques-xtm.jsp )
And leaving my comp open during the night just to upload is out of the question, it is already overheating as it is.. i don't want it to melt.
I do the same thing as well when I know I won't be at home. If I know I'll be out, then I won't mind letting a torrent seed all day.Originally Posted by Assassin
Usually I hit and run though...To the point when leaving it to seed doesn't even cross my mind.
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Thats exactly what i do. I usu. get my stuff from places where my 30kb/s isn't going to make a dent in the overall upload rate and it would take forever to get to a respectable ratio (usu. due to the size of the files). If there are few seeders, I stick around. If i am the only seeder, I'll stay till theres another seeder at least.
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I always wait til I have at least 1:1, but I usually have 1:1 by the time my download is finished, so I stop seeding when my UL speeds drop to like ver low 30kbps or something. By then I already have 1:7 or something.
Some of you people act like uploading is costing you time and money, or causing you physical pain. If you've got an always-on connection, and you can get a client with a scheduler, you have no excuse. Help torrents work they way they're supposed to work.
Most ISPs in Canada have a monthly bandwidth limit. A lot of people use Sympatico and Rogers which are 40 GB and 60 GB respectively, if I recall. I use Teksavvy Premium which is 100 GB. So yes, to some people it is not in their best interest to seed to a 1:3 ratio or something.
Another point to consider is that if you get to a torrent on the tail end of the initial rush, a lot of times it's hard to find interested peers to seed to. If I'm at 0.5 and I'm leaking out like 5K at the torrent (when I've got plenty available), then me being there is doing more against the health of the torrent (by uselessly hitting the tracker) than for it.
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