[OT] ? BitTorrent etiquete

["Nigel Giddings" <nigel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry for another OT posting but looks as if everybody is still out Xmas
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opping from yesterday. I can=92t ever remember seeing the list so quite=85

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I have started to play about with BitTorrent, primarily because of this
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I set it up Azureus at the weekend to download a few things and this
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g got an ear bashing from SWMBO about the speed of the internet connection=
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dth left for her yahoo mail session.

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I have now limited the up and down speeds to 20 and 12 respectively which
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as done wonders for the WAF.=20

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First question, I know BitTorrent is about sharing and not just taking and
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disappearing with the goods so I am keen to keep my Share ratio at a
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ly level=85 What is appropriate ? I have one file that now has a ratio of
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.997, my lowest is 0.5 and it is seeding. When do you guys remove from the
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available list ?

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Second Question, My older seeds seem to have become dormant, is this part
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f the life cycle of a seed ?

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Thanks

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Nigel


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