SeYiA Posted February 27, 2006 Report Share Posted February 27, 2006 Hello everyone, i'm new to the forums, and really I was just wondering what my share ratio should be before I remove it. I personnaly have been letting the share ratio go to 4.000 before i remove it which i think is 4 times what i downloaded i'm not 100% how to know what it means but i'm almost sure that's it. Anyway I'm all for the sharing community and just wanted to know if i should let it go longer, if it doesn't have to be that high, doesn't matter I'm gonna leave it at 4, but if i should go more please tell me, i wanna be fair for everyone else on the bittorrent. Thanks ahead of time for all that reply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schnurlos Posted February 27, 2006 Report Share Posted February 27, 2006 Hello SeYia, welcome to µTorrent!For questions about µTorrent and its features you don't should use the "Chat" - Forum.Try a search like thisSearch for: Share Ratio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klaus_1250 Posted March 2, 2006 Report Share Posted March 2, 2006 A share ratio of 4 is more than adequete. About 120% is minimal, anything above is better. If everyone shared to 400%, the world would be a much better place :-) Keep it up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kewldude606 Posted March 3, 2006 Report Share Posted March 3, 2006 A share ratio of 4 is more than adequete. About 120% is minimal, anything above is better. If everyone shared to 400%, the world would be a much better place :-) Keep it up!It's impossible for everyone to seed to 400% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klaus_1250 Posted March 4, 2006 Report Share Posted March 4, 2006 Yes I know, but the more people do it the better. If everyone seeded to just 200%, I would probably be impossible to seed to 400% because of the lack of download-capacity in the swarm :-D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StoicJester Posted March 4, 2006 Report Share Posted March 4, 2006 on private trackers i seed files of more than 100 mb to 1gb or a ratio of 2, whichever comes later. on public trackers and small torrents i seed to 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splintax Posted March 4, 2006 Report Share Posted March 4, 2006 http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=3992woo, it even has the same title! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klaus_1250 Posted March 4, 2006 Report Share Posted March 4, 2006 Minimum ratio: 1:1 is wrong! (from the linked thread). Torrents are not 100% efficient and sometimes data gets lost. 120% is good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaosblade Posted March 4, 2006 Report Share Posted March 4, 2006 1:1 doesnt include any wasted data or hashfails, So thats not a factor really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splintax Posted March 4, 2006 Report Share Posted March 4, 2006 In any case, it's very, very difficult for everyone to maintain 1.0, despite it being mathematically possible.Get over the ratio things. :/ As far as I'm concerned, anything above 0.4 is fine. I seed to 2.0 or for a day or so, whichever comes first. I don't bother seeding for ages when there are already hundreds of seeders, but I'll keep seeding if I'm the only one on a crap public torrent or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted March 4, 2006 Report Share Posted March 4, 2006 It's mathematically impossible for everyone to get 1:1 actually. At best, 2 people would have a ratio of .5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klaus_1250 Posted March 5, 2006 Report Share Posted March 5, 2006 It's mathematically impossible for everyone to get 1:1 actually. At best, 2 people would have a ratio of .5That's isn't true either. If everyone, from the start, would seed at 1 and no-more, torrents would be slow as hell. At the end of a torrents life-time, seeding to 1 is impossible, but at the start of the torrent, you can seed above 1 and it will make the torrent faster. Without sharing above a ratio of 1, the torrent will never gain momentum and will never be fast. It will also be susceptible to attacks and leechers. Just do some basic math or draw it out. Or connect to a private trackers were people have good ratio's (above 1). Ratio does matter and ratio's above 1 do make a difference.But yes, in the end, the overall average ratio of everyone who ever connected to a torrent will be about 1 (I suspect a little higher). But that should never be an excuse to share just to a ratio of 1.@Splintax: Knowledge about ratio is important. BT is a great network, but for those who have been using it for a long time or use private trackers a lot, BT can be frustrating at times. Plenty of people who don't care about ratio's or uploads speeds and because of that, BT isn't a fast as it could be or should be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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