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

  • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    No one cares or will even notice your lack of participation.

    Some seeders have amazing infrastructure and can seed in an hour what would take you a year on a residential connection.

    This is not an “if everyone did that” problem because not everyone has limited residential bandwidth.

    If youre worried about moral obligations adopt a few torrents with very low numbers of seeders to ensure they dont die.

    Alternatively, you could rent a seed box for a month and upload 5 years worth.

  • HumanPerson@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    Anything helps, totally acceptable. My network is shared with others, I limit my speed up and down to make sure I don’t slow it down for everyone.

  • curbstickle@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    Ive had downloads that went on for months because there was one seeder at like 15-20kbps constantly, and one that would pop on and push a few megs but really intermittently.

    I’m in the “who cares as long as you seed” camp as well.

    • Jediwan@lemy.lolEnglish
      0·
      2 months ago

      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.

      • brie_cheese@piefed.caEnglish
        1·
        2 months 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

  • Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    01·
    2 months ago

    if you don’t have any data caps then it just doesn’t make any sense to cap your uploads.