Just a small way to help people get their FOSS. What are some other projects that have torrents that would be good to seed?

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    4 months ago

    At 16kb/s per connection , I think you have to ask yourself if you’re really helping. Have you checked your settings that you aren’t limiting your upload speeds?

    Edit: people seem to be offended by this comment, so let me clarify by what I meant with “are you really helping”.

    Torrent clients default to a fixed number of peers they download from. If you end up with only 16kb/s connections, you are being limited by those seeders in how fast you can download.

    Whereas if there were less seeders but they could provide 1mb/s connections, you are limited by your own internet connection and are downloading full blast.

    I hope that clarifies my statement.

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      4 months ago

      At 16kb/s per connection , I think you have to ask yourself if you’re really helping

      That’s a rather toxic mentality to have. Any amount of help is always appreciated.

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      Torrent clients are usually smart enough to decide what the best seeders are to get the best possible availability and throughput.

      OP seeding at 16 KB/s to some peers might also just mean that the leecher’s bandwidth is mostly saturated by other peers so they don’t need that much bandwidth from OP.

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      4 months ago

      You’d be surprised to know that a 500GB hard drive can be theoretically copied in 1 year with a 16kb/s transfer.

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      Whereas if there were less seeders but they could provide 1mb/s connections, you are limited by your own internet connection

      Gigabit internet connection gang rise up!