Leeches
The two comments above really PISS ME OFF
i set upload at 5KB/s and download at full speed. i get ~52KB/sec down on my 384 line.
You can't upload only 10% of what you download. This is unfair, and slows down the whole system.
I remember a few weeks ago people complaining about the local torrent sites having strict user policies, and this is exactly why. It's fine (to a degree) to limit and/or hit-and-run non-member torrent (i.e. public) sites, because these have many many users, but to do it on a closed site is just plain LAME.
Set your maximum upload speed to 10% less than your lines maximum upload speed (so if its 256k up then set it to 23k/sec upload), and you will be contributing to the community. Otherwise you are a leech, and deserve to have your balls cut off.
And don't you dare bitch and moan saying "but it uses up my cap wawawa", buy another damn account then, cos you're just messing it up for everybody else.
And don't hit-and-run either. This is where people stop sharing once the file is finished. Try to seed until you have reached a ratio of at least 0.750. 1.1 being the "accepted" international level to stop seeding at. and if it's a *rare* file, seed for as long as you can.
Thanks.
the torrent protocol gives preference to people who are downloading and have a higher share ratio than you - so if your torrents are going slow (and there are lots of peers/seeds available) you need to share more. but in my experience if you wait a bit the speeds normally pick up (i guess your share ratio becomes higher than other people at that point).
This is incorrect.
