MarkVincent

Thanks for your help (and not condemning me to die for making a mistake) DreadWingKnight. The Moderators here are very helpful (if a little intimidating sometimes XD) We newbies are usually less interested in all these technical aspects and need guidance to understand some of these concepts. I appreciate your taking time to help me.

I generally think of myself as intelligent, but in these forums there is so much talk that is above my head. I understand most of what is being said here, but not all. Kindly permit me to lay my exact scenario out, in the hope of someone giving me some guidance. First I must confess that I have been guilty of sequential file downloading. I'm sorry. I got this software when a friend "hipped" me to it, but I'll be honest, I didn't try to find out anything more than how to make it download fast. In the process, I discovered seeding articles here and have since tried to seed to at least 3 on all my downloads. The problem is, when downloading a series of videos, I select the first video only, then when its done I clear the torrent and reload it. Then I select 1 and 2 (and then repeat so at the end I will just select all of them) I never knew I was doing anything wrong. I thought by seeding like crazy (when I do this process on a slow torrent I get much better upload speeds than download so by the time a file is complete the ratio is usually over 2 or 3) I was "helping out". Okay, finally to the question. When I get to the end, I intend to leave the download seeding for a long time. (6 or so) Is this still bad (I'm afraid I already know the answer, but this torrent is super slow AND I'm on HughesNet satelite (no port forwarding) AND I really wanna see these videos before the year 2012) ? Sorry I searched the forum and used the FAQ, but I couldn't find an answer that I could understand. Thankfully I can understand yes and no fairly well.