background; i had all my torrents seeding forever and i never set a limit mostly because when i set up qbittorrent i was new and never really went into options.

i want to be able to control and limit the bandwidth i use but is 50kb/s during the day/10kb/s at night unreasonable? i dont want to be rude or make it hard for people to get things but i also just don't want thinks to balloon out of control (before i just keep everything in seeding perpetually just because i never bothered to look).

am i being unreasonable with limits? i obviously dont want to download and just stop; i always want to at least share back to at least 1.

these are mostly public trackers btw

thanks <3

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[–] flork@lemy.lol 17 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I do 4x or 1 month whichever comes first. Unless I notice it's some really hard to come by thing and I may leave it up for a year or more.

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago

I just leave my torrents until deluge starts crashing. If one thing is super popular I’m not gonna stop it from boosting my ratio. Most sit idle with almost no interest 95% of the time.

[–] alonsohmtz@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I would like to see some kind of conservative, standardization on how to organize files like music and TV shows so we can keep seeding the same torrent after it's finished. As it stands right now, unless you want a lot of "branding" in your files, you have to remove all of the noise which means you no longer have the exact files the swarm is looking for.

There are some torrents that do it right, and hats off to them.

[–] flork@lemy.lol 3 points 1 month ago

Honestly same I want to share forever but I also dont have the storage for 2x everything

[–] brie_cheese@piefed.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

i usually leave mine going until i have to unplug my drive (my media pc is a busted old laptop that cant be unplugged, if im travelling i take my drive with me). that means theyre usually going for a month or two