On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:49:26 +0000, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
> 
>> Just leave it run; I usually let my torrents run until either there are
>> 0 peers for an extended period of time or until I hit a share ratio of
>> 1:1.  Sometimes I'll let them go longer, but I give priority to those
>> with a share ratio below 1:1.
> 
> Yeah, that's pretty much what I'm doing. It's just that with such a low
> upload speed, almost no peers want to talk to you, so it takes an insane
> amount of time to reach parity.

Not really; I have a 3 Mbps/384 Kbps ADSL line, and while it can take a 
week or longer (especially since I throttle my upload speed to 20 KB/s 
using SpeedScheduler because otherwise other things I need the line for 
slow to a crawl), the method I use seems to work pretty well for me.  I 
guess it depends on the trackers you're using as well, though, and if 
you're pulling recently posted files (I do) or files that are much older 
where the number of peers is low to begin with.

Jim

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