Born 1983, He/him, Danish AuDD introvert that’s surfed the internet since he was a tween.
I tend to stop torrents when they hit 1000, I feel like that’s a “good enough” contribution on public stuff, except when I notice less than 100 seeders, then I tend to keep it going.
(164 TB * 1024) / (16 * 3 * 30) = 116 GB pr hour while the computer is turned on (it’s turned off when I sleep so only online ~16 hours a day).
Theoretical maximum for a 1gbit connection is 125 MB pr second or 7,5 GB pr minute or 450 GB pr hour.
So it’s only using ~26% of it’s theoretical upload speed, which seems about right, those are the speeds I most often see my client running at, plus minus 26MiB/s.
EDIT: I am pretty happy about the one at 755 ratio. 78GB * 755 = 57TB. That alone is 35% of everything I’ve uploaded since I installed qBittorrent in February.
After I’ve gotten 1gbit fiber I tend to try and hit ratio 1000:1 on anything I seed. Back when I was on xDSL connections before fiber, I tried to hit 1.1:1 because my thinking was if everyone tried to do that, there’d literally never be data loss.
I recently tried getting “The Sinking of the Laconia” miniseries and it took 8 days to get it. But I’m not member of a private tracker where it was available anyway, so sometimes public is better as long as one is patient.
Never mind the comments here on Lemmy, but you really need a hazmat suit to enter the comments on that article. Over 1400 of them, each somehow a different type of phobic. Living up to the nickname “TERF Island”.