You should also take into account that actively downloading tasks also need upload bandwidth in order to download (they have to upload the pieces they already have for that torrent in order to receive other pieces from their peers). The other ones you can queue for seeding using the options page of BitComet. So you should seed simultaneously no more than 2-3 taks, so that your overall tested upload bandwidth divided by the number of seeding tasks doesn't fall under the minimum of 8kB/s (unless of course you have a high upload bandwidth and you can afford to seed more tasks simultaneously without spreading too thin the individual bandwidth for each task). As long as you keep seeding the task you're doing your part for the community you just need to leave it seeding until it hits at least an 1.5-2.0 share ratio and you'll be more than fine.Ī bandwidth of about 8-10kB/s upload per seeding task is considered acceptable (if you seed multiple tasks) for public torrents (where your peers are actually downloading most of the time from you). Nobody is judging you for not having a killer upload speed. upload 700MB).Īs long as you're seeding, and you don't intentionally limit too low your overall upload capabilities, you needn't worry.
This means that you will be able to download a 700MB task in, let's say, 40 minutes, but it will take you much longer to seed back to a 1:1 ratio (i.e. Most residential connections (xDSL, cable) have a much higher download bandwidth than the upload one. This is one of the very reasons why most people need to leave the tasks seeding for a longer time after the download. If you're still downloading but at slow speeds, the cause is probably another one.ĭepending on your connection's upload capabilities, uploading at 10kB/s (not kb/s) isn't at all bad. Your passkey wouldn't work anymore on the tracker probably therefore your connection to the tracker would be refused altogether. However, if you were banned from a specific tracker, I don't think that you would be able to download anymore, at all. You'd have to check those, to make sure that you comply. You can't control how much you upload, since on private trackers there aren't as many peers as on public ones, therefore often you will just have keep the task seeding for a while (a few days minimum).īut that's more clearly specified in the particular seeding rules, for each private tracker site. If yes, all you need to do is to leave the task seeding for whatever minimum time they request. If you don't comply to their seeding rules your actions will be considered "hit and run" and WILL get you banned very soon, and that for the very good reasons explained above (nobody likes thieves among them and especially not the closed communities that are the private trackers). However, since many users aren't able to easily find their consciousness at all times, ALL private trackers monitor their users' share ratio (and have different systems for counting that globally or per-torrent, as explained on each site in particular). They are a scourge of the BitTorrent Network, and while on public trackers nobody is monitoring your share ratio, it is left on your consciousness' latitude (if you have any) to use your common sense and to seed back at least to a 1:1 ratio (if you really liked the contents you downloaded you should make an effort and seed more so that it's kept alive longer). That's the reason why this kind of guys are called, bloody "leechers". If everybody only downloaded and then deleted or stopped any task they download, then very soon (in a matter of days) you wouldn't be able to download almost anything at all, anymore from the BitTorrent network.ĭownloading without seeding back, is like a form of stealing (since you only take without giving back anything to the community). Seeding is what makes BitTorrent downloads possible at all, it's the "engine" that keeps BitTorrent rolling, if you will.
That is, you could download what you did, because other people just like you, kept seeding that torrent once they finished downloading it. On public torrents, what will happen is nothing, as far as the consequences which concern you go.īut you should keep in mind that P2P downloads are made possible because other people are willing to share, as everything you download is coming from other people like you who are still seeding that resource.