Feels very redditty, which is why I’m asking…

Also, what are total buffer size (what does it affect) and session waste (what does it affect)? qbittorrent-nox on Linux.

  • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
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    22 hours ago

    Unless your home internet has multi-gigabit upload, you’ll never be able to compete with seedbox users when new uploads drop and everyone is downloading them at the same time. Your seedbox can upload at 10x-100x the rate my home internet can which is why seedbox users capture all the seeding credit on new uploads. Once a file has been out a day or two, the only people downloading are new users or people who aren’t using automation tools like sonarr/radarr which are few and far between.

    The tradeoff here is that your seedbox storage capacity several orders of magnitude lower than my 50TB home server, so I can keep these files seeding forever much like the parable about the tortoise and the hare (though without the deeper meaning).

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      9 hours ago

      My seedbox is connected at gbit speed, yep
      But I don’t seed at that.
      Maybe at 5-10 mbps on newer popular stuff and only the large popular ones will I crack the 20 mbps range.

      Why? I suspect SSD seedboxes are “stealing” my rario, too.
      I am also in it for the long game with mine and download the smaller less important releases through usenet.