is it considered rude to limit my upload in qbittorrent? (piefed.blahaj.zone)

submitted 10 hours ago by cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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background; i had all my torrents seeding forever and i never set a limit mostly because when i set up qbittorrent i was new and never really went into options.

i want to be able to control and limit the bandwidth i use but is 50kb/s during the day/10kb/s at night unreasonable? i dont want to be rude or make it hard for people to get things but i also just don't want thinks to balloon out of control (before i just keep everything in seeding perpetually just because i never bothered to look).

am i being unreasonable with limits? i obviously dont want to download and just stop; i always want to at least share back to at least 1.

these are mostly public trackers btw

thanks <3

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[-] brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Those are pretty low limits but without knowing your actual bandwidth, or if you're dealing with data caps, can't say if you're being rude.. but you're probably fine. In the end you contribute what you can, and seeding is still better than not seeding :)

My own rule of thumb, if my running p2p software needs to have bandwidth limits then I aim for at least 1 Mbit/s (122 KiB/s) to contribute to the network. But that assumes you actually have 1+ Mbit/s internet upload and no data caps, people around the world have different available speeds.

Might be helpful too https://duckduckgo.com/?q=50+kibibyte+to+megabit

[-] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 9 hours ago

i only did it at 50 kbs for now because i was at like 6tb or whatever before and i wanted to stabilise before gradually moving back up :)

[-] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 hours ago

Keep in mind QBit uses kibibyte units while your ISP reports speeds in megabits. You can also set it to change speeds depending on the time of day. I have mine limited during the hours I typically have people streaming from my server and have it uncapped from like 2am - 8am.