Seeding 100 files at once!

[RXP]

Just read on a private tracker board that Azerus has a queue system (does uTorrent?) and pepole seed upwards of 100 files on there. Got me thinking are torrents slowly turning into an ed2k network? IIRC the creator of bittorrent originally said it would be wise not to use torrents like ed2k, is there any reason why?

[Firon]

The queue system is not like ed2k's. It simply queues and unqueues torrents based on seeding rules, such as seed:leecher ratio, your ratio, active torrents, if the torrents have no seeds or no peers, and so on.

[Switeck]

Unfortunately, µTorrent doesn't have a similar seeding queue system. However adding one would balloon the size of µTorrent for minimal gain -- few people would use such a feature.

[Tich]

on some private sites where it is hard to keep a ratio i just force-seed all my torrents.

having 20-30 active torrents doesnt use much bandwith (not much more than scraping the torrent anyway) and i find that there won't be much more than 2-5 leechers because the torrents are pretty well seeded.

what i love about bittorrent though is the limitation of the stuff you are sharing.

if i want somebody to enjoy the fantastic CD i just bought i rip it and upload it on my fav tracker without sending some crap music i got ages ago and limiting the bandwidth available for the new stuff

[infused]

I'm currently force seeding 120 torrents on a private tracker, some other people do alot more...

[Firon]

I seed up to the limits my private trackers allow (since almost all are 0-peer torrents).

75 on one, 72 (limit of 100) on another, and 5 on one more.

Usually 6 or so are active at any one moment, with 1 peer on each.

[Ramius]

On some more fascist trackers, seeding gazilion of torrents with 0 peers with hope that maybe someone some day will actually download something from you, is the only way to avoid getting banned for low ratio.

[Tich]

another way would be to contribute to the site and upload something yourself

and its more like communism.. everybody gets everything but has to give something.. well.. its not really fascism anyway.

if you are a leecher though, you get kicked off the pretty island of joy (private tracker).

on topic: seeding loads of torrents is fine as long as there arent many peers connected.

ideally every peer which downloads from you should get at least 5kbyte/sec upload from you.

[Ramius]

another way would be to contribute to the site and upload something yourself

and its more like communism.. everybody gets everything but has to give something.. well.. its not really fascism anyway.

True. But sometimes the site has everything you have, you don't have any new stuff, or your stuff is below the site's standards.

Of course, it's always possible to survive, if you are smart, but sometimes the amount of effort required from users gets a bit ridiculous. I am all for ratios and private trackers, but up to some reasonable point.

[Tich]

most trackers don't require you to have a ratio much greater than 0.5

off the top of my head 0.6 is the highest i have ever come across and IMHO that is very doable without too much effort

[Ramius]

True. But if almost noone downloads from you your ratio will always fall, unless you don't download anything And again, i am speaking about really restrictive places. And some of them don't even allow you to upload, hehe.