What is your ratio? 😅

zikk_transport2@lemmy.world to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com – 257 points –

Share your all-time upload & all-time download ratio. Let's find out who is the winner! 😇

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Uploaded: 70.92TB
Downloaded: 1.63TB
Ratio: 43.5
Running time: 1518 days

That's a lot of Linux ISOs

I did Linux ISOs for a while, but the only ones getting my ratio up where kali and parrot. That scared me a little so i stopped (only seeded distros and didn't use a vpn).

I'm guessing the most common distros have regular people seeding a lot just on their PC in the background. Like me. Get your EndeavourOS while it's hot people!

Stats from my seedbox (all public torrents)

Uploaded: 638.311 TiB

Downloaded: 29.120 TiB

Ratio: 21.91

User statistics

  • All-time upload: 69.568 TiB
  • All-time download: 13.774 TiB
  • All-time share ratio: 5.05

Total Uploaded: 4.12 TB.
Total Downloaded: 543.97 GB.
Ratio: 7.76

If on all trackers that hard to calculate.

First tracker: Upload 558.385 TB download ??? Ratio ???

Second tracker: Upload 11 TB download 12 GB ratio 979

I don't know how calculate anonymous trackers.

On current client:

Upload 46 TB, download: 2,5 TB, ratio 19, uptime 7 days

Upload: 94.80 TB Downloaded: 37.18 TB Snatched: 27158 Average Time Seeded: 1,621 Hours Total Time Seeded: 360,273 Days Total Traffic: 131.98 TB

Does the total time seeded mean how much combined time you've spent connecting to other people and uploading to them? Because that works out to about 1,000 years.

I'm probably 90% Usenet nowadays and the rest is mostly public torrents but my monthly data usage is about 4TB down and a hair under 1TB up on average.

I need to buy more HDDs.

what indexers are you in?

Currently just NZBGeek and NZBPlanet, I also get a fair bit of content from animetosho's free usenet index.

That NZBPlanet one is an API key I happened across on an unsecured sonarr instance I found in a random google search ages ago, sonarr and radarr used to put all of your details in obfuscated plaintext so you could just right click the obfuscated passwords and api keys and see what they were in the search google for "2f34fw" entry, that was fixed in more modern versions. Secure your shit guys. Pirates will pirate your piracy sources. if they update their keys I'll lose it, but they seem really good so i'll just pay for it if that happens.

Up: 104.86 TiB

Down: 5.72 TiB

Ratio: 18.33

For one tracker anyway...

23.79 TB uploaded 2.32 TB Downloaded 10.273 ratio

From my primary seedbox. This is probably my best ratio and upload total but I’m more proud of maintaining a decent ratio on higher downloads with more competitive trackers :)

my ratio is sitting at 0.47 and is unlikely to budge with rural Australian internet speeds if I download anything ever.

of course this is a fresh install and I've never paid any attention to seeding before

I have the same issue, having only 20mbit up sucks ass if you try to keep a good ratio

What's a seedbox ? How can I setup one?

Seedboxes are typically a remotely hosted server in a strategically located datacentre, configured to provide users with a way to download and seed torrents more efficiently than at home.

You can rent a seedbox from a bunch of companies (monthly cost, less effort), or you can even set one up at home (one-off cost, more effort).

Here's a list of seedbox companies to check out:

  • Bytesized Hosting €14.00 / Month
  • Dediseedbox $10.00 / Month
  • EvoSeedbox $5.00 / Month
  • Feral Hosting £10.00 / Month
  • Giga-Rapid €0.99 / Month
  • HostingByDesign €6.59 / Month
  • RapidSeedboxes €8.00 / Month
  • SonicBit $2.15 / Month
  • The Seedbox €10.76 / Month
  • Seedhost €6.00 / Month
  • Seedit4.me €11.99 / Month
  • Seedmonster $9.99 / Month
  • Swizzin $15.95 / Month
  • Ultra.cc €4.95 / Month
  • WhatBox $15.00 / Month
  • Xirvik $12.95 / Month

A bit more "home user friendly" explanation:

Basically your home PC where you download "Linux ISOs". But because you don't like picking everything (movies/tv shows/etc, but not pc games) manually - you want to automate it.

"Automate" is called Jellyfin/Plex and underlaying microservices, such as Radarr, Sonarr, Prowlarr, QBittorrent, Bazarr and so on. You want this to be available 24/7 so it automatically adds content (movies/shows) to your "wishlist", downloads when it becomes available and automatically appears in your Jellyfin/Plex server.

This is why you usually dedicate a server for this, which runs 24/7, usually at home. And I guess you call it "seedbox".

Some other users set up VPN on their server, configure qbittorrent to use ONLY vpn connection (to avoid getting emails from their ISPs for pirated Linux ISOs lol) and call it "seedbox". They first torrent anything to seedbox, then they download from it to their PC. In my case it's not needed, since everything is automated and I access all my "Linux ISOs" from Jellyfin.

I'm a regular 1:1 overall casual user. I've both seeded generously and leeched precariously over the years, but i can safely say i've given as much as i took.

I'm not super familiar with torrent seeding, but from a layman's perspective I'm really curious–how do you use so much data? My internet provider yells at me if I go over a 1.5 terabytes, I can't imagine streaming normally for example while also uploading, or is this over a very long period of time like decades?

Sorry if this is a silly question

Unlimited Internet is a thing now, I pay $50 a month for 5G home Internet. I'm guessing you have one of those dinosaur fiber internet where a technician has to come to your house to install internet.

Unlimited Internet is a thing now

In most parts of the world, home Internet has never been limited tbh. This is mostly a North American thing.

I’m guessing you have one of those dinosaur fiber internet where a technician has to come to your house to install internet

But fiber is much less likely to be limited than 4G or 5G? It's also not affected by weather, so you don't get random drops.

There are definitely bad ISPs out there providing capped fiber, but fiber itself is significantly superior to 5G if you want a stable and fast connection.

I used to have several outages per year with fiber internet. In the year and a half I've had 5G home Internet not a single outage. But you are able to get much higher speeds with fiber, so if you had some kind of business that needed like 10 gig speeds, fibers the best choice for that. But for home Internet 5G is much more superior in reliability, and fairness in pricing for the consumer.

Is 5G really that much more reliable than 4G? Because on 4G I often get spikes (of lengths between 2 seconds and several days) of low speeds, dropped packages, high latency, etc. Whereas I've never had an outage on fiber, nor has anyone else I know. Fiber is also not affected much by other peoples' usage.

I think fiber being shit is very much a regional thing, and mostly Northern American. It's the lack of competition. A good fiber service will outperform a good wireless service any day of the week. And it can be done on the cheap too, if there's competition. Romanians get gigabit fiber for like 8 euros a month and 300 mbps is the minimum speed offered I believe. The key is that you can't let a single ISP own the entire network in an area. Should be government-owned ideally.

5G is super fast, and wow you Romanians are lucky. But here in America ISPs are grinches who charge you 49.99 for the first year and then increase your price to $80, which is a whole 60% mark-up. So before 5G home Internet was a thing, you only had one provider in the area you lived, and this lack of competition basically allowed them to price gouge us over the years till our bill got to $220 for 100mb. 5G was truly a life saver for my families budget. And you are right about cable Internet being more performant, but 5G did introduce some very much needed competition in the telecommunications space.

I'm not Romanian actually, it was an example of what fiber can be when your government doesn't let monopolies happen.

I'm glad 5G works for you. Here in Estonia it's a lot more expensive than fiber and fiber itself is significantly overpriced (100 mbps being like 27 eur a month, unlimited cellular data more like 50 and that comes with no guarantees of speed or even availability).

I have what is available in my neighborhood, I do believe it's "dinosaur fiber optic" lines. And I haven't heard of a 5g connection without data caps where I live either (USA). At least not at any price point I can afford, certainly not 50$!

I have heard most other countries get way better internet than USA, though. But where I live it's Xfinity, century link, satellite Internet, or through a cell phone plan and they're all capped and leave some to be desired speed wise. I don't even live in the sticks or anything!

Im in the U.S as well, T-Mobile with unlimited 5G home Internet is $50 a month with no commitment. I've used hundreds of GB's per month with 0 cap or slow downs.

Zero slow downs even?? How does it do with upload speed? I stream

It uses a cellular connection for your home internet, so it's limited to whatever the speed of T-Mobile 5G is near you, and unless you live in an area of perfect reception it probably won't be great for streaming.

The trick in my area is my ISP is a crown corporation that competes with the privately owned ISPs. They don’t give a crap what you do(as long as it’s not too illegal or damaging their service), the standard on their fiber is upload speeds are 1/2 the download speed and you can pay an extra $10/month for symmetrical. I put it to the test once as I was testing online backuo software. GDrive has a limit of 750 GB/day uploaded data, and I did that consistently for a couple months straight(IIRC that was pretty close to maxing my upstream at that time). Never heard a peep.

Telia internet, Lithuania. 19,90€ per month, unlimited.

940mbps down & 580mbps up. Unlimited internet, fiber. Telia is known as trusted company that does not care about torrents and most importantly - never throttles or provides lower speeds. This ISP delivers what is promised. <3

Also it's Jellyfin&friends (radarr/sonarr stuff), so it's all automated. Nearly 40TB of storage in raid5 and automatically downloads movies and some tv shows. And in 4k:) sometimes 100gb per movie.

Just get a seedbox. No reason to use your own bandwidth or have torrent traffic on your own ISP. I just use bytehost and it’s also hosting my plex server. I’ve also used seedhost.eu for a long time without issue but that’s seedbox only (no extra apps like plex or sonar etc)

I have never heard of a seed box!! I gotta admit, the concept is confusing to me off the bat, I'm going to have to research a bit. I don't really understand how it's not my ISP even though I'm using it for Internet, how strange. It seems very in depth and kindaaaaa scary, I'm not super technical but willing to learn! Thanks for mentioning

It’s just a remote server you rent that has either a web interface for a torrent client and/or the ability to shell into your instance and use a terminal based solution. You tell the remote server to handle the torrent. It downloads it to the server and also seeds for you. Then if you need the file on your home machine, you can grab it via ftp sftp https wget whatever way you want. To your ISP it’s not torrent traffic and even better, you can vpn to tunnel or use baked in means to make this transaction encrypted. In short, you can seed forever without impacting your own internet and you can keep your actions relatively secure and private as compared to opening a home machine up and letting loose.

I pay Comcast an extra $30 a month for unlimited data. I use about 4-5TB a month with torrenting and Plex users watching stuff remotely.

Usenet guy here so no real ratio, my downloads for this month so far are:

The total is since end of Feb iirc.

User statistics
All-time upload: 	12.436 TiB
All-time download: 	3.021 TiB
All-time share ratio: 	4.11

That's starting from about May 1 on one device. There have been and are others, of course. My provider no longer offers port forwarding and that really curtailed the upload part, but I tried to maximize that while I could.

While I do miss what cd dearly, I haven't been on a private tracker since. I prefer freeing the bits as much as possible for all people, so that means public torrents and trackers.

guys are not downloading enough 😅

User statistics

All-time upload: 143.678 TiB

All-time download: 112.403 TiB

All-time share ratio: 1.27

upload 1.3TiB download 238GiB ratio 5.6 did a fresh windows install 2 weeks ago also where does qbittorrent store the statistics

U: 1.94 TB D: 409 GB R: 4.857

Small fry compared to you, but that's just personal stuff.

Download using my phone then move stuff to a hard drive so don't know for sure

Looking at my stats on a tracker, I'm almost at the peta uploaded with ~200 TiB down, so I guess a 5:1 ratio. I had no idea but now I'm going to look and screenshot this milestone once I hit the PiB!

9.1 TB up 1.8 TB down

5.2 ratio over 900 days.

Not dethroning op for a while yet.

Are these decimal points or thousands demarkations?

I doubt you're being serious but I was curious and did the math. transferring 88000 TB over a 1Gbps connection would take 8148 days or over 22 years straight

Yeah, no worries, it was a joke ;)

But yeah, exponential increases scale like crazy.

User statistics All-time upload: 1.779 TiB All-time download: 1.244 TiB All-time share ratio: 1.42

My main tracker has me at a 1.5. I'm really proud of that because I hardly download freelech and seeding is required so it's damn hard to get a decent upload.