how much to speed?

[Tech]

Usually, when seeding I would upload as much as i download for good reasons,... usually 1:1 ratio or slightly more...

However, i've lernt to ignore ratios, because they are not accurate to go by...

even if i have 1:1 ratos on my torrents i'm seeing, when going to info of a torrent i find users downloading only have downloaded so  much,,  basically ratio is meaningless..

How can this be?   Since the % downloaded wold be more accurate i recon based on the IP, i assume this list displayed users downloading pieces of that file and NOT them seeding ?

which would mean the % of users who have these pieces must be more accurate to go by than ratio alone right?

e.g   When i got to 1:1 on just over, i stopped it on torrents, not that i don't want to, but because i don't have the bandwidth..A few days later  get comments on my torrents on website that seeding had stopped for some of these torrents. When I thought when u reach 1:1 or "uploaded as twice as u downloaded," them u have shared the complete file...

Is this a wrong assumption?

[krosis]

Ratio goes by amount. If you give 10 people 10% chunks of the file, you have effectively distributed the entire file, and now you can remove yourself from the swarm, and those ten can each trade another, until all 10 have all 10 chunks, and equal 100. Unfortunately, most people dont seed and remove themselves once they get 100% and don't re-distribute their share 1:1.

[Moe]

Just because you have uploaded as much as you have downloaded doesn't mean you have uploaded a complete copy. You very likely uploaded some pieces more than once and others not at all.

That doesn't mean you should ignore ratios. In a healthy swarm, the pieces you didn't uploaded are available somewhere else. When your ratio passes 1, you are free to leave knowing you did your part in uploading back to the swarm.

If you are truly concerned with swarm health, the number you should be looking at is availability. If that number is greater than 2, then there is at least one full copy of all the data in the swarm not including yours, so if you leave, people will still continue to download and complete the torrent.

[connor17]

You don't have to do anything. If you "don't have the bandwidth", then you don't have it. Other people will contribute with the bandwidth that other people lack. We share not just files, but other things too, like bandwidth.

As for the numbers that torrent clients display, they are just that, numbers on a screen.

[lidlnelly]

You don't have to do anything. If you "don't have the bandwidth", then you don't have it. Other people will contribute with the bandwidth that other people lack. We share not just files, but other things too, like bandwidth.

As for the numbers that torrent clients display, they are just that, numbers on a screen.

We share not just files, but other things too, like bandwidth.

Seriously?