Details about ratio

[JonF]

I have searched the wiki and the forum, but I must not be doing it correctly... Please forgive my ignorance.

How many gigs free do you get when you start? Do you have to keep a ratio of 1:1 to not get warned?

I started downloaded Conan: Boy of the Future thinking I would be able to get most of it done, and seed while I'm doing it, but it seems to me that after 300 ish Mbs in, I'm warned, for I can't download anything...

So my last question: do I have to upload 300 ish Mbs to stop being warned? (So I'll have to grab a movie from another tracker and upload it?)
If I had known that I couldn't download anything at all, I would have started with freeleech, and now that I can't freeleech, I'm in a slight rut... It's not very new-user friendly.

I just couldn't find any detailed info on what the exact ratio is, and what kinda leverage you give new members.

Any insight on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[Temuthril]

Do you have to keep a ratio of 1:1 to not get warned?

http://wiki.bakabt.me/index.php/Account_Restrictions#So.2C_what_minimum_ratio_should_I_maintain_to_avoid_being_warned.2Fget_out_of_a_warning.3F

The 300mb limit before warning does sound a bit low, but I don't see you being warned at the moment anyway.

[JonF]

My apologies, I may have over-reacted. It does seem like I can download still -- you can be sure I'll seed some freeleech first!

It just looked like it, cause for 10 minutes my download speed went from 600 Kb/s to zero, and it my ISP wasn't to fault, for I was still browsing the web at full blast

Thanks alot, and look forward to being here! I can't wait to get all the Ghibli films in high quality

Jon

[blubart]

new users have a grace period of around 20-25GB - only after you download at least that amount you will get warned for a bad ratio - before that point it your ratio doesn't matter.