I’ll admit, when I first started torrent I was not really familiar with how it worked and how important seeding was. I would just use magnet links without configuration to save the torrent and seed after completion. Well… I have finally, got myself back to 1.00 after a couple months and working to try to always seed double what I get for each torrent.
Often times I was one of the few random seeders available for some of these torrents. Friendly reminder to give back because you never know when you’re one of the rare cases that can complete someones long lost file download!
Giving back is good but once I realize how much I hate companies that own the media I have been seeding these Linux iso extra hard out of spite!
This is the way.
I miss eMule though. I always loved to share some rare exotic stuff and see someone decided they want that and I provided it. It’s not just about bandwidth, though I had pretty big numbers there. Torrents just don’t hit the same.
Ed2k/kad network still have good health with new and old stuff
Problem is how most networks are configured today that prevent HighID on eMule, severely crippling it. It used to be annoying to have LowID in the past and reconnecting usually fixes it, now it’s a given and you can’t get out of it. It’s so hard to get uploads going and it makes me sad :(
The problem with HighID/LowID on eMule is the same on bittorrent or any other p2p, you need someone with port forwarding to upload/download content. In my case I am out of cg-nat and sharing 24/7.
It’s not. Bittorrent uses newer methods to connect that work with current network configurations where eMule devs stubbornly refused because it would create some overhead like we’re still stuck on 56k or ISDN era and never improved it.
Apparently there is a way using VPN with P2P, but I’m not gonna pay for it just to run eMule…
Nope, it is the same. Bittorrent have a lot more users than eMule and then you have more possibilities to find a peer with ports forwarded. 2 peers Without port forwarded can not share content.
I have ports forwarded locally to deal with my router, that doesn’t apply to my ISP down the line. And that’s the problem. I don’t know the specifics, but that’s how it was explained to me.
I have ports forwarded locally to deal with my router, that doesn’t apply to my ISP down the line.
So you are under CGNAT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier-grade_NAT
From the wikipedia link:
Carrier-grade NAT usually prevents the ISP customers from using port forwarding, because the network address translation (NAT) is usually implemented by mapping ports of the NAT devices in the network to other ports in the external interface. This is done so the router will be able to map the responses to the correct device; in carrier-grade NAT networks, even though the router at the consumer end might be configured for port forwarding, the “master router” of the ISP, which runs the CGN, will block this port forwarding because the actual port would not be the port configured by the consumer.[7] In order to overcome the former disadvantage, the Port Control Protocol (PCP) has been standardized in the RFC 6887.
You will only be able to upload to someone with a public ip address or with UDP hole punch (but there are some technicalities - and doesn’t work in all the cases). The same will happen if you use torrents. Maybe you don’t notice difference because of the sheer amount of people using seedboxes and vpn.
Maybe your ISP uses cg-nat and you can ask them to opt-out or find and ISP with this option.
Soulseek is still kicking ass and taking names, bruh
If you’re on linux check out the Nicotine+ native linux client for soulseek
How is this different than say Qbit?
Soulseek has no torrents and no swarms. It’s a classic, direct peer-to-peer connection between you and another user. You have to choose to share items in your library, like in the old days. Most file sharing like this was shut down two decades ago now since bittorrent was alive and kicking in 2001 and became the dominant way to share files. However, Soulseek has somehow flown under the radar and kept chugging along. It’s my premier place to find obscure music I can’t find anywhere else.
I know, but I still miss my donkey. It was slow but stubborn and always delivered eventually. Also it was mesmerizing watching all the clients and traffic happening and watching KAD nodes visualization. Good times. It’s still there but because it now always connects with LowID it doesn’t work as good as it did with HighID…
It’s been at the same ratio for the last 3 years… Never managed to get more…
Those are rookie numbers. You need to pump those numbers up.
pretty proud of my ratio of 6 yrs
I mean have you really only downloaded less than 500gb or is almost everything free seed and doesn’t count on your download stats.
Eitherway nice seeding, good job
yeah, I mostly download free seeds and I don’t think that adds to the download count, I’ve definitely downloaded more than 500gb
Normal ratio on private sites with free seed torrents because your download is heavily distorted
This reminds me that I had to limit my public seeding.
Accidentally did 65TB in 18 days.
Yeah… It’s still going so fuck it.
To be fair this is actually a linux ISO.
Between my bad Internet connection and my apparent tendency to be the very last person who decides to download any given torrent, I just gave up and paid my private tracker to ignore my seed ratio ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Maybe your VPN or internet doesn’t have port forwarding? That severely limits seeding potential.
I used to think seeding well was impossible, no matter how many files you seed the ratio just doesn’t get better. Then I tried a port forwarding enabled VPN and realised that was my issue.
I seed with out port forwarding yeah it aint much but over time it is works out.
Port forwarding more than 10xed my seeding so if you can give that a shot.
Mines alright seed just long enough to stay afloat
Da good stuff
We thank you for your service
I wish I could seed but Mullvad doesn’t allow port forwarding, and ProtonVPN has given out IPs under court order so I don’t trust them for any purpose.
I’ll have to look into other VPNs I think, because I’m ideologically very much for seeding.
You can still seed without port forwarding. This machine is running behind Mullvad
Is there a guide? I have the same problem.
Edit: seems like that one person in the swarm has to have port forwarding enabled. So if you can’t port forward, you need someone else to and then you can upload to them.
AirVPN is the other choice here that offers port forwarding still.
Thank you ! I’ll go check that out 🙂
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Afaik, they were forced to log and report IP addresses for the user’s mail logins.
They can’t do that for their VPN, though, so I’ve seen some people recommend you create your account through another VPN or via their Onion service, and then only connect with the VPN on.
This seems fragile at best, and isn’t helped by the fact the most anonymous payment option they accept is cash by mail, which is still quite traceable. They also take bitcoin, which is extremely traceable.
If they expand to accept Monero, I’ll reconsider, but for now I’m sticking with Mullvad. I use mailbox.org for mail, which does log IP addresses (for 4 days), but it is a separate account from my VPN so I don’t really care.
I’m also put off by their recent posts supporting the Republican Party. It is really strange for a privacy company to support authoritarians, and the addition of them leaving Mastodon but staying on Xitter doesn’t inspire much confidence in them.
Wow I didnt realize I was this close…When I am seeding a torrent with less than 5 seeders I just let it go forever. So far I have about 15 of those. Eventually I’ll have to drop them… but I’ll be there hero until then.
Thank you for your service.
What are you using? I need to carve time out to get my unraid server to work with jellyfin and arr and seed with deluge. My current set up moves the files to the right folder once I have completed my download so I never get over 1.0 ratio.
Way to go, keep it up!
Took me a while to find the stats tab, I didnt know it was available lol
Yay! Good job. Keep going!
I always lose my seeds because I like to rename my files. Any workarounds?
Change the file name in the torrent client :)
This is what I do as well
I change the directory in my client. This moves the download to my preferred location for plex, etc. And it seeds from there instead
Hardlinking files to their new destination and your normalized naming schema. Using symlinks would be madness.
Keep the files in a dedicated torrents folder then make symlinks to where you actually want them?
