Any experienced torrenters here? For me a torrent took like 3 days for a 4 Gigabyte movie, I had like 1 slow ass peer at a time.
And I thought 3 days was an eternity.
I’ve got one on 537 days right now, it’s at 92.4%.
It’s basically lost media otherwise. Every few months, some extra pieces show up and I see some progress… I really wonder about where its coming from. There’s usually 6-8 of us on it and I’ve never caught anyone with 100% online.
I’ll bite, what’s the media?
That’s some dedication.
I’ve had torrents run for months. Usually with just one seeder that only connects periodically.
This is still running. Sitting at 95.8%, with three unconnectable seeds and 41 unconnectable peers. I get a new piece every few days, so I’m confident it’ll get there eventually.
I’ve had torrents take years.
I had this movie at the top of my list stuck at 71% for at least two years. Hundreds of other torrents came and went. Its easier to find it these days.
Totally worth it
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Oof. I give up after 365 days. I figure if no one has seeded by then no one will. Staring at that 98.7% completion makes me sad. :(
And yet, I do manage to snag some really rare stuff with enough patience.
That would be a horror-story for me, electricity prices are high and the downloading computer should run for 24/7, with a spinning hard-drive.
The downloading computer can be lower powered, and can do a bunch of different things! Home automation, ad blocking, file storage, so many options!
I guess the biggest expense is the hard-drive that needs to keep spinning and powered. I could create a new thread asking about torrent hosting on SSDs vs hard-drives. The constant (random) read operations should break hard-drive after some years?
I have 6 hard drives that have been running constantly from between 5 for the oldest and 2 years for the newest. Zero failures so far. They obviously have a lifespan to them, as with everything, but it’s not like they’ll fail left and right.
And I’ve moved out of so many cloud services (and streaming services) to in house, that over time, the privacy and savings of it are sort of worth it.
Lol, I have a whole ass Data Center in my basement ;)
I’m 34 days into a 30 GB file right now. Gotten 1.6 GB and seeded 1.3… There’s one seeder that shows up every once in a while and seeds at less than 1 kb/s. I dream of one day finishing it
I had one that only had 1 seeder and they were only online for like 20 minutes a day. Took over a month to finish that torrent. I think it was like 35GB for a complete series of a hard to find show.
So annoying waiting for that torrent to get to 100%.
20 minutes a day
Wow did he have some automation that restarted his computer daily? Amazing that the torrent finished for you!
I also have one that is sitting 50% and it has been sitting there for days. I think people should be honest about torrenting, its obvious. The experience can be hit and miss, some seeders have very slow connection, and break all the time (intentionally)?
No idea, but I asked for the seeder to be online more and no answer. Other seeders are good about putting something back on their seedbox if you request it. Not this one.
How did you ask the seeder?
It’s a private torrent site. So you just contact the uploader if they are the only seeder.
It took a couple of months or so, it was long ago. A few days ago I found the original torrent file while cleaning old HDDs and I tried to reseed the torrent but all the trackers seemed dead.
Before torrents, back when I had a new Compaq Presario with 28.8k dial up and a 40GB hard drive, I would set Napster to download 3-4 128k bitrate MP3s overnight and hope the modem wouldn’t disconnect during that time.
Around 4 months. It only had a handful of seeders that were online sporadically. And it didn’t help it was over 400GB.
Idk. Usually if I have a really slow torrent, I find another source. Or I give up and do something else. If it’s really that slow, by the time it completes I probably won’t care any more.
