Share your all-time upload & all-time download ratio. Let’s find out who is the winner! 😇

  • Captain Poofter@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m not super familiar with torrent seeding, but from a layman’s perspective I’m really curious–how do you use so much data? My internet provider yells at me if I go over a 1.5 terabytes, I can’t imagine streaming normally for example while also uploading, or is this over a very long period of time like decades?

    Sorry if this is a silly question

    • zikk_transport2@lemmy.worldOP
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      Telia internet, Lithuania. 19,90€ per month, unlimited.

      940mbps down & 580mbps up. Unlimited internet, fiber. Telia is known as trusted company that does not care about torrents and most importantly - never throttles or provides lower speeds. This ISP delivers what is promised. <3

      Also it’s Jellyfin&friends (radarr/sonarr stuff), so it’s all automated. Nearly 40TB of storage in raid5 and automatically downloads movies and some tv shows. And in 4k:) sometimes 100gb per movie.

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      1 year ago

      I pay Comcast an extra $30 a month for unlimited data. I use about 4-5TB a month with torrenting and Plex users watching stuff remotely.

    • Usernamemonopoly@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Just get a seedbox. No reason to use your own bandwidth or have torrent traffic on your own ISP. I just use bytehost and it’s also hosting my plex server. I’ve also used seedhost.eu for a long time without issue but that’s seedbox only (no extra apps like plex or sonar etc)

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        1 year ago

        I have never heard of a seed box!! I gotta admit, the concept is confusing to me off the bat, I’m going to have to research a bit. I don’t really understand how it’s not my ISP even though I’m using it for Internet, how strange. It seems very in depth and kindaaaaa scary, I’m not super technical but willing to learn! Thanks for mentioning

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          It’s just a remote server you rent that has either a web interface for a torrent client and/or the ability to shell into your instance and use a terminal based solution. You tell the remote server to handle the torrent. It downloads it to the server and also seeds for you. Then if you need the file on your home machine, you can grab it via ftp sftp https wget whatever way you want. To your ISP it’s not torrent traffic and even better, you can vpn to tunnel or use baked in means to make this transaction encrypted. In short, you can seed forever without impacting your own internet and you can keep your actions relatively secure and private as compared to opening a home machine up and letting loose.