• @emhl@feddit.de
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    714 months ago

    if you snatch a popular torrent that is fine but with dying torrents that is quite harmful

    • @Jenoki@lemmy.mlOP
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      134 months ago

      I’m considering getting a seedbox because with my current storage setup, and my unwillingness to keep the vpn up all the time 2.0 is the best I can do.

      • Osa-Eris-Xero512
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        144 months ago

        This was annoying me too, and I solved it by spinning out a VM that exists just to run qbittorrent and the vpn connection.

        • @Fisch@lemmy.ml
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          64 months ago

          I use Gluetun for that. It’s a docker container that sets up the VPN and qBittorrent in two containers and routes all traffic from qBittorrent through the VPN.

      • Rustmilian
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        4 months ago

        If there’s no one left to seed, the torrent dies. Seeding back at least 200% ensures the torrent stays healthy.

        • @ZeroEcks@lemmy.ml
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          184 months ago

          Sometimes you need to seed back more than 200% because the other two people might not be able to seed it back. I would generally not set a limit

          • Rustmilian
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            4 months ago

            True, but as a minimum you should be doing 200%.
            Also in a ideal scenario that 200% would be spread out to a lot more people then just 2.

            • littleblue✨
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              14 months ago

              OP is showing 200% as their maximum. That’s the whole point of this thread. 🤌🏼

                • littleblue✨
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                  -14 months ago

                  I’m not the one reiterating the salient point of a very short thread. Might do well to read that to yourself instead, friendo. 🤗

      • @blindsight@beehaw.org
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        If there are less than 5 seeds, then I keep seeding indefinitely. Above that, I’ll consider deleting it to free up space once I’m done with the media.

        Unless it’s from a private tracker, in which case I’ll just seed everything forever to get the sweet bonus points.

        • @Catsrules@lemmy.ml
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          24 months ago

          How does that work, does the downloader just cycling though seeding torrents or do they all stay active? I feel like there would be so much torrents over time it would slow everything down.

          • @blindsight@beehaw.org
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            14 months ago

            I looked it up, and qBittorrent can easily handle hundreds of torrents, apparently. I haven’t noticed any problems running 180-ish. I’ll probably try to keep it capped to 300 or something like that.

            • @Catsrules@lemmy.ml
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              14 months ago

              Does it matter how many files are in each torrent?

              I would think a 100 file torrent would be more intensive than a 3 file torrent.

              • @blindsight@beehaw.org
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                14 months ago

                I don’t think it has any effect at all, but I’m not an expert. It’s just sending data by request based on hashes and indices, isn’t it?