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Joined: 9 years, 11 months ago
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Last Seen: 19 secs ago
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Uploaded: 137.847 TiB
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Downloaded: 7.191 TiB
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Ratio: 19.16
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Required ratio: 0.50
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I can never get decent upload speeds. I seed everything I can but the most I’ve ever seen is 100 kbps. Average is probably more like 10 and very few upload at all. Haven’t been able to find the reason.
This is me too. I’ve got about 5TB of material being seeded 24/7 from my media seever, but I rarely see more than single-digit GB total upload volume per day. The majority of the time, except for the occasional blip, I rarely see total upload rate get over a few hundred kB/s despite having the cap at 24MB/s.
I’d have to stop torrenting completely and only seed for a year to get my ratio past 2.0 lol
What I find got me a very high ratio were some high volume torrents (e.g. >500gb) that only few were considering seeding 24/7.
So far those netted me the most ratio of anything I have done.
Are you sure you are using port forwarding and have symmetric connection?
I believe I’m doing port forwarding correctly. I’m using a router with DumaOS installed so I’ve considered that that may be the problem. I haven’t heard symmetric connection mentioned before. I will do some googling. Thank you
the beauty of decentralization, aint shit corpos can do about it lol
get fucked, parasites. should have never fragmented streaming services into cable style bullshit.
Thanks for making up for my shortcomings <3
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I’m blessed by cheap and fast french internet. Still need a VPN though.
All Linux iso’s, right?
There are at least 3 Linux isos in those 700 torrents.
I think I just busted a nut
FBI, open up!
Jk. Thank you for your service
Got served with strongly worded letters, forced me to use Wireguard on a private server, then ProtonVPN.
I think you’ve won, great work!
I’m lucky to be in a position to do that, a few years ago I would’ve dreamt of reaching what most shared here
Dang
My upload ratio looks like ass because I edit videos for a thing with friends, and we use torrent to send the raw footage between computers. So I have like a 0.2 ratio because I’m downloading 5 gigs and then we kill the torrent.
Interesting use case
It’s strange that people know how to create and share torrents but not open a port or install an FTP server.
My friends aren’t tech nerds, they dont want to do that stuff unfortunately. Qbittorent is simple enough for them to adopt without complaint.
…syncthing?
I’m surprised none of the tech companies have a service that lets you share any size file from your own PC, and then slurp at it for their AI on the way through…
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In terms ot total data moved, I have 2.4TiB up on a Star Trek full season pack, for a ~35 ratio. That torrent’s been around for years and I suspect won’t die for many years yet. Oldest seeded torrent would be about 8 years.
This is behind NAT, 12mbits upstream.
I rolled my eyes at the last sentence. Good job bro, we are grateful
Shame upon myself. 50tb this year DL, 0 UL. But hey, it’s usenet, so that’s perfectly fibe 😁
what about usenet makes that different? I’ve never used it
Besides it being around since forever and predecessing all forums and reddit etc.
It’s main selling points for pir8s are:
- max speed (depending on your uplink and your provider ofc. E.g. I get a solid 120mb/s)
- up to maaany years retention (how old the stuff you want could be. Depends on provider ofc. Currently 11yrs from the top of my head)
- no need to upload or be member of trackers to get the GOOD stuff. It’s all the same to everyone.
- it’s still not really mainstream (luckily) and hence less dmcas
Downsides compared to torrents?
- in theory torrents can be as old as torrent itself. In reality torrents die quickly.
- no social component like if you’re really engaged in some private tracker
- to have it efficiently you’d either one or more indexers (like search-engines). There are free ones but they suck. And/or forums. As much stuff is encrypted/obfuscated for obvious reasons.
Overall I’m a cheapskate and pay like 2€/month for unlimited usenet with maximum retention and 50 connection on the best backbone plus 2x 10-12€ a year for indexers. But one totally would be sufficient.
In the end, we enter a movie/series-name, pick the right one from the results, wait a bit for the download and sorting to happen, then watch it in emby comfortably. The comfortable kind of piracy i dreamt of for nearly 3 decades 😊
Which Usenet provider are you using, and which indexers?
Eweka. Not only the biggest backbone (afaik) but they also regularly have a supercheap offer like 2.50 with vpn and all. Speed is constant with only very rare occasions where it gets down to “just” 100mbit or so. 50 concurrent connections.
Indexers i tried many, but got stuck with geeknews. Would say i find 99% of what i search there. Price is 12 bucks per annum i think. With even a free tier. I don’t even know the name of the other two as i never need to use them, they’re just backups now and i will cancel them
Good stuff. So is Usenet like a message board? forum? Like technology wise it’s obviously not as simple as a file host or it’d be down by now
Aye, it was originally (and still is) just a gargantuan forum which has no owner and is federated. It also has binary groups, which are “abused” by pir8s since forever. Dmcas happen sometimes, but not that often.
I somewhere commented a full how-to for a comfortable *arr-setup. But the most simple way is just using some newsreader.
Yes, here’s my understanding:
it’s essentially a massive collection of forum posts – all text.
Files/binaries are encoded into text, and split into multiple posts if they exceed the max size for a single post. The names of posts and relationships between multiple posts can be obfuscated too.
Indexers provide .nzb files which are kinda like .torrent files, they indicate where in Usenet all the posts needed for a complete download are located.
You give an .nzb file to an nzb downloader, which finds the post(s), downloads, (merges,) decodes the final result into its original binary form, and does a hash check to make sure everything is correct.
There’s some open source software like Radarr, for example, which can automate the entire process start to finish (in Radarr’s case, for movies specifically)
With Radarr it goes like this: Add movie -> Radarr searches via indexer(s) for a .nzb matching the criteria -> .nzb gets sent to nzb downloader -> downloaded from usenet server(s) -> completed download is moved (and optionally renamed) by Radarr to desired location
That’s fascinating. thanks!
I’m fairly certain that Ubittorrent messed up my user account on my old Mac, and now I am really leery to start it up on my new Mac. I also have no idea how to go about diagnosing whether I have malware or something, because I have never run into this issue on a Mac before. I also have had trouble setting limits on uploads so all my bandwidth isn’t sucked away, and ChatGPT was not effective with its advice. Usually I leave it running for days on end though, and I also don’t delete.
Malwarebytes for mac, should be a free scan. Ive had great luck with it before. I am a long time IT erm person so ask me if you have questions.
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