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I'll admit, when I first started torrent I was not really familiar with how it worked and how important seeding was. I would just use magnet links without configuration to save the torrent and seed after completion. Well.. I have finally, got myself back to 1.00 after a couple months and working to try to always seed double what I get for each torrent.

Often times I was one of the few random seeders available for some of these torrents. Friendly reminder to give back because you never know when you're one of the rare cases that can complete someones long lost file download!

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This reminds me that I had to limit my public seeding.

Accidentally did 65TB in 18 days.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah... It's still going so fuck it.

To be fair this is actually a linux ISO.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Between my bad Internet connection and my apparent tendency to be the very last person who decides to download any given torrent, I just gave up and paid my private tracker to ignore my seed ratio ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Maybe your VPN or internet doesn’t have port forwarding? That severely limits seeding potential.

I used to think seeding well was impossible, no matter how many files you seed the ratio just doesn’t get better. Then I tried a port forwarding enabled VPN and realised that was my issue.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I seed with out port forwarding yeah it aint much but over time it is works out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Port forwarding more than 10xed my seeding so if you can give that a shot.