I'm new to the world of Torrent downloading and file sharing.

I'm using Transmission, Ubuntu's default torrent handler. Other people I'm downloading from/uploading to are obviously using different programs and different operating systems.

I have throttled my upload speed to 10 Kb/s, because I have a broadband traffic limit of 10Gb per month which equates to 333Mb per day; so I cannot just let people download from me with abandon, or after a short while all my allowance would have been used up! Without my throttling, I found I regularly had Download speed: 5.0Kb/s; Upload speed: 66.0Kb/s!

I wonder if other torrent handling programs have some sort of way of knowing whether you have put a throttle on your upload speed, and adjust their upload speed to you accordingly? Has anyone ever heard of this?

It's just that I notice when I throttle down, my download speeds go down also. I wonder if other applications have some sort of "poetic justice" mode, where they know if you have deliberately limited your upload speed, and adjust theirs to match yours. Or lower.

I have no objection to uploading as much as I have downloaded (I believe people who download only without allowing uploading are called "Leeches"); but not having unlimited data transfer allowance, I have to draw the line somewhere!

Thank you for any advice anyone can give.

Steve

KTorrent, Deluge and µTorrent (Windoze app, but can be run with wine) all support throttling your transfer speed (both upload and download), it's an essential feature for a good torrent program. They also support setting a ratio at with they stop uploading downloaded files (e.g. if you want to upload files you download one time fully and a forth, set it to 1.25; I'm not sure about KTorrent, but it should be there as well).

Is that what you wanted to know?

Kinda. What do you mean exactly by "ratio" in this context? I know it's the ratio of downloaded stuff to uploaded stuff (like 0.3 means you've downloaded three times the amount you've uploaded). Do you mean to say that someone else can tell what my ratio for that torrent is, or are you referring to their ratio?

No, I'm referring to the ratio you choose to upload. After you reached that ratio (as your torrent app records it), most apps have a function to remove a torrent from your torrent list.

Your ratio = Your Upload: Your download.

You can set a limit on that in ktorrent

use peer guardian lists (from ktorrent)

You mean, the app will remove the availability of that particular torrent from my list of available torrents that people can download from me?

BTW, Transmission does not seem to have such a function. It is, apparently, a "streamlined" torrent app. I'm considering using Deluge instead...

If I did do this, if I knew the location of the torrent file, and the location of the stored downloaded files, could I "transfer" the torrent download (mid flow) from one torrent client to another? (i.e. from Transmission to Deluge or ktorrent?)

Steve

You can set the program up so it will "remove the availability" of torrent from you. You can disable that kind of functionality if you want to upload more than to a certain ratio.

You can transfer torrents from one program to another (at least to deluge). Deluge, for example, will check transferred files, and in most cases some progress of the download will be lost (not if a torrent is complete); I experienced the same with µTorrent. I think it's about 10% that can be lost, but I'm not sure.

Okay, thanks for the info. I think I need to do a bit more research into torrent programs and the use of them in general.

Steve