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?
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
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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australian cellular internet (no wifi)
in australia even the internet is trying to kill you
Every bit is appreciated among pirates
This was something that I’d wondered, if my speed is slow is there a point to me seeding if the torrent already has a 100+ seeders:?
I could barely even get things to seed from my PC even though I have fairly fast Internet. I spent some time trying to figure it out but eventually I gave up. It may be similar issues to what I had.
I eventually gave up and started renting a seedbox so I wasn’t just taking.
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.
Seeding on a private tracker on a home connection with a VPN is fucking impossible.
I have a very high seed ratio but nearly everything is on public trackers.
And I don’t have bad internet or anything (1000/1000 -VPN costs) so I could easily seed quite fast. But it never happens.
