A few months ago I grabbed this torrent from rarbg, and it took weeks to download. Often going days with no seeders.

I finally got it, and decided I’d seed beyond my usual 2x to help others get this. Then rarbg went under, and now I think I’ll just keep this one going.

      • CharlestonChewbacca
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        Here’s a good guide, t’s old, but nothing should be too different.

        https://www.cuttingcords.com/home/ultimate-server/getting-started

        Use radar instead of Couch Potato.

        You can find up to date guides for any of the individual products.

        I recommend NZBgeek’s lifetime subscription.

        Then, set torrents as your news group’s backup and you should be good to go.

        Spend an evening setting this up and you’ll be golden. Just subscribe to any shows or movies you want and it will automatically download them when they are available.

        You can set preferences around quality, file size, language, format, etc

      • CharlestonChewbacca
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        12 years ago

        It’s safer, faster, more reliable, and much easier to automate.

        I only paid $20 for a lifetime subscription.

  • @[email protected]
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    When rarbg went down I immediately went and for any torrent I still had loaded in my client I quadrupled my normal ratio (3.5 -> 12.00). Then I also just increased my ratio generally.

    I wish I had more disk space to keep things going even longer, but I really gotta cycle stuff out unfortunately.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 years ago

      When rarbg went down I waited a couple weeks for straghlers then stopped seeding all rarbg torrents. Is there a reason to? How will people even find these torrents?

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    The only torrent I ever removed my seed cap for was a set of DVD-audio ISOs. I had it downloading for months, but it never got above 5%. Eventually I found the same disc images on another site, so I dropped them in the download folder and rechecked the torrent, which came back 97% complete. The only files missing were box art scans and NFOs. I let that thing seed for about five months.

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    102 years ago

    I did this with the That 70s show FGT torrents. Nobody seeds older media anymore, so each one had/has a >30 ratio on the 5GB-per-season BDrips

    I wish for low-risk older media people would just keep the seed open forever. Very little bandwidth will be taken up but people will have it there if they want to go back and watch it.

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    My crowning achievement is still seeding a 2.429TB torrent up to a 1.0 ratio, took me about 7 and a half months.

        • @[email protected]
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          72 years ago

          Wonderful! I wish you both a happy relationship! Sounds like you’ve got your work cut out for you 😊👌

          • WorseDoughnut 🍩
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            32 years ago

            In my defense I was really only trying to find a handful of specific videos from a certain porn site… But you know how sometimes it’s just easier to grab an entire album or an entire season / boxset of a show, than it is to find a specific song / episode in high quality? Well that same rules applies to porn, and since I had no issue with space (I have a very large NAS) I just grabbed the whole siterip since it actually had a decent number of seeds lol

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              I know exactly what you mean. No defence need my friend, but maybe some lotion 😊💦 #staysafe

  • @[email protected]
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    I seed anime OSTs, plenty enough and rare collections.

    If you folks happen to download that category, chances are I am one of your sources 🤣

  • @[email protected]
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    32 years ago

    The oldest active torrent I know of is the fanimatrix. I’m still seeding it just in case.

  • @[email protected]
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    92 years ago

    I pretty much always leave stuff seeding once I get it these days. Ever since I bumped the disk space on my NAS it made it a lot easier to leave stuff instead of jockeying for space on disk.

    My higher ratio items are all old shits like You Got Served lmao

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    232 years ago

    Not from the same source, but I’m in the middle of getting a 5GB file that took me five days so far and will take another five to complete. After that, I think I will keep sharing for as long as possible this one, since I see a lot of peers every day, even though there’s only one seeder, from which I’m currently downloading at 10Kbps (and not because of my bandwidth, I think it’s theirs that’s a bit on the slow side).

    I have slow upload, but once there are two seeds things should get better for all other peers, compared to now haha

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      I always am going crazy seeing a 1mib/s upload divided by 10 peers while I am sitting here with a gig symmetric line ready to satisfy all within a minute (if their pipes allow it).
      JUST GIVE ME THE DAMN BANDWIDTH and I shall satisfy everyone and their dog for a 100 ratio…