submitted 4 days ago by cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Is there any downside to leaving something seeding indefinitely? Typically I just leave all my torrents seeding whenever I'm done 24/7 (whenever the VPN is on) but is there any detrimental issues to seeding too much?

It doesn't bother me I was just curious if there was ever a such thing as too much seeding since I have like 20+ things seeding and maybe one thing downloading.

Speed isn't an issue since I have gigabit internet.

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[-] SaltySalamander@fedia.io 0 points 3 days ago

You can if you don't run anemic networking gear. Have three PCs running torrent apps, with a total number of allowed connections sitting at right around 1200 between all of the torrent clients. Zero issues.

[-] Xanza@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago

You're not having issues because it's very likely it's limited by your ISP regardless. There's simply no way a consumer ISP (or VPN) is allowing 1200 simultaneous UDP connections. So you could likely set it to a million and have no issues. Because you're being limited to ~250-500 at the protocol level by your ISP/VPN. lol

Situations like this, torrent priority is even more important because there's a high likelihood you're not able to connect to peers you otherwise would be able to if you were using priorities...