I dont want to seem ungreatful, I downloaded a really rare piece of music history that way (over almost 2 weeks) and am seeding it now. But I am genuiently interested, how this happens. Surely no connection is that bad, even with vpn and up/down-limit?

  • thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe
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    Not everyone on the internet lives in western countries with 1gb fibre connections, hell remote parts of the US are still stuck on very slow ADSL if they don’t have access to starlink.

    Your seeder may be in ButtFucke WY or could be in a little village in Phillipines or Nigeria

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    1 year ago

    Having bittorrent traffic set to low priority while being online and doing other things can lead to that, especially someone seeding multiple things at once.

    Also depending on where they are or how they’re connecting their ISP could be throttling them.

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    I have a seedbox. On private trackers I limit my UL speed to give home seeders as chance to build ratio.

    For public torrents where I am the only seeder, I throttle upload so the leech might appreciate the value of having multiple seeders and will seed the torrent so the next user doesn’t have to go through the same bad experience. It hardly ever works, though.

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      1 year ago

      I never do the latter anymore. was downloading a pretty rare dvd rip awhile ago I only found after a really long time. download was slow, for about 4 days I was downloading and then seeder went offline and afaik never came back up. now I try to make sure if im the only seed to try and make sure they get priority to decrease the chances of that happening

      EDIT: btw props to btdigg, I did eventually find it in some collection thanks to that