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TheHell:
the story is: after a while I noticed my upload ratio sux then I started some research and here is what I got till now!


* never remove any torrent after its download is done(and seed 24/7 ;)) (this includes moving or renaming files)
* get yourself some torrents with more peers
* check if your torrent client have a limit on upload and put it on 80% of your maximum internet connection speed or if you don't use your internet for anything else 90% and 95% can be good too(too many seeders and you cant seed much anyways)
* I found settings>Queueing>"Seeding tasks have higher priority than downloading tasks" option in utorrent today.
* See if disabling uTP improves your seeding performance at all. Be sure to restart uTorrent after doing that.(good one Freedom Kira ;))
* go to settings>Queueing>and set "Maximum number  of active torrents" to something big like 50 or 100 then set "maximum number of active downloads" to something small like 4 or 5 or even smaller if you like (1 makes the program finish one torrent before start another)
* I recently noticed one more thing that have an effect on upload speed is number of connections per/global so you can go to settings>bandwidth>number of connections and set each option as high as you like.
Note: you can set both per and global to the same number. this will make sure all of connections are available even if only one torrent is active (thanks to Bozobub for the tip)

after this you will get bigger numbers on your upload but still a long way to get a good ratio
any other tips would be appreciated ;D

brunoais:
Don't use force start, just use start. uTorrent will efficiently choose which torrents will be in the queue and which ones will be actually seeding.
Upload speed should not be unlimited. It can be as much as 95% of your internet upload speed but don't try using the full 100%, that way your internet for the rest of the programs will be much slower because too many packets are lost.

Freedom Kira:
That's a nice summary of about 80% of the help forum's content.

And 80% is the recommended level, not 95%. 95% will choke everything except torrents. If you want to use your connection for anything else, don't set it any higher than 80%.

Keep in mind that the mere fact that a torrent is freeleech does not guarantee that it will be more attractive to people. For instance, I personally prefer 720p anime over 1080p (and I'm sure I'm not alone). The only 1080p stuff I get is movies. Other freeleech stuff includes things like artbooks and certain small torrents. You have to watch the peer counts on the torrents, and compare seed and leech counts.

Watch your connection limits as well. Higher numbers can cause network instability, while lower numbers can choke torrent activity. Experiment to find a good middle ground.

And don't forget to seed 24/7. There are people on the other side of the planet too.

megido-rev.M:
Just to add, check that your transport overhead doesn't consume too much bandwidth as well.

ConsiderPhlebas:

--- Quote from: brunoais on October 29, 2012, 08:06:31 AM ---Don't use force start, just use start. uTorrent will efficiently choose which torrents will be in the queue and which ones will be actually seeding.

--- End quote ---
I assume based on scrapes, which means that for a queued torrent you will be unavailable as a seeder until you scrape the next time and realize there's someone leeching. And by then one of those fibermonster seedboxes may already have uploaded a lot  ;)

There may be other reasons for Forced seeding as well, like accumulating bonus points if that interests you.

So I don't think it's wise to generalize like that. Like for so much else, "it depends"...

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