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background; i had all my torrents seeding forever and i never set a limit mostly because when i set up qbittorrent i was new and never really went into options.

i want to be able to control and limit the bandwidth i use but is 50kb/s during the day/10kb/s at night unreasonable? i dont want to be rude or make it hard for people to get things but i also just don't want thinks to balloon out of control (before i just keep everything in seeding perpetually just because i never bothered to look).

am i being unreasonable with limits? i obviously dont want to download and just stop; i always want to at least share back to at least 1.

these are mostly public trackers btw

thanks <3

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[–] cranakis@reddthat.com 58 points 1 month ago (4 children)

As long as you seed with a ratio > 1 you're good in my eyes!

[–] flork@lemy.lol 23 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I do 4x or 1 month whichever comes first. Unless I notice it's some really hard to come by thing and I may leave it up for a year or more.

I just leave my torrents until deluge starts crashing. If one thing is super popular I’m not gonna stop it from boosting my ratio. Most sit idle with almost no interest 95% of the time.

[–] brie_cheese@piefed.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

i usually leave mine going until i have to unplug my drive (my media pc is a busted old laptop that cant be unplugged, if im travelling i take my drive with me). that means theyre usually going for a month or two

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 month ago

I try but on some it's really hard. If there are so many seeders that you are unable to seed much yourself then that should also be ok.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 month ago

I've got years old torrents on my seedbox.I forgot about. 2000 ratio lol

[–] mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago

*cries in no port forwarding

no matter how long i keep trying to seed, not even one bit uploaded