Ratio Tips - How to maintain a good ratio

Don Vito · #1 11-29-2006, 10:23 PM

Start off small. Don't join and start to download 100GB worth of stuff. Think long term.
Try and run your torrent client 24x7. Limit bandwidth if need be during the working day.
Think of seeding in terms of weeks and not in hours or days.
Realize that if you join a torrent that already has 30 seeds you are likely not going to upload a lot as a seed yourself later. Seed fewer but more needed torrents, i.e., don't try to seed 10 different torrents at 1kb each. This is not efficient
Don't ignore your ratio during your grace period. Try and make sure that you maintain at least 0.5 from day one.
Make sure that if you turn off your torrent client you stop the torrent first.
Initial demand for a torrent is high and therefore there's a lot of early seeds. However, keep seeding for a month and you will find you get lots of upload credits as late users come on.
Join a sacrificial torrent (e.g. one that is popular in the long term) and get/seed that forever. This will make sure you always have something uploading.
Donate for upload credits
Look at the Torrents page and sort the list by Leechers.Whichever have low number of seederss and high leechers, try going for them.
Don't PM Admins and Moderators telling them that your ratio is low, there is no magic button.
Upload new stuff and seed them for a LONG time!
Download latest music and seed it for as long as possible!

**Music torrents are ratio free (aka gold) torrents i.e. only upload amount counts towards ratio, hence download popular + latest music torrents and seed them 24 X 7

Try to seed each torrent to at least 0.5 (REGARDLESS of how long this takes).
If the torrent is busy(too many seeders) then hang about until you reach 1:1 (or longer if you can).
If you are seeding more than one torrent, but one has 100 seeds and the other has 1 seed, stop the one with 100 seeds and concentrate your bandwidth on the rarer one.
Whenever possible don't remove torrents just stop them. Then if the number of seeds falls you can jump back in quickly to get your ratio high.
Don't leave a swarm that has low number of seeders and high leechers until:

The swarm has lots of seeds and you can seed good on another torrent.
You have reached till 1:1 on that torrent.

Torrent Client Tips

Disable Peer-encryption
Disable DHT
Disable Peer-exchange
Use uTorrent, Azureus, ABC

Keep an eye on how much you uploaded..make sure you upload more then you download to maintain a good ratio

Feel free to ask any questions.

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