Topic: What is your upload ratio?
By popular demand (and me having no clue what poll to post) - here's the what's your ratio question 
Generally, my ratio hovers around 1:1. Yours?
In other news, anyone wants to take charge of the polls for a while?
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Re: What is your upload ratio?
Whut?
3 2010-01-06 12:27:43 (edited by Calavera 2010-01-06 12:38:23)
Re: What is your upload ratio?
I don't have a ratio anymore, I have moved on to better things, to Usenet.
It's great, you should try it out if you haven't!
Anyway, on the only private tracker I was active on before, my ratio was about 12.8, what can I say, sharing is caring. ^_^
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Re: What is your upload ratio?
It depends on the site and files I am downloading.
But generally about 1:1
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Re: What is your upload ratio?
What is my Whut? 
usually don't care, I keep some torrents (like Linux CD images) for seeding and other I just remove after download.
- kaibren
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i mostly remove after downloading, so ratio is pretty low. unless some bad torrent ain't coming down and only going up.
7 2010-01-06 13:13:58 (edited by OZZIE 2010-01-06 13:19:50)
Re: What is your upload ratio?
nivalis wrote:
am i correct to assume that if x:y
x is dowload and y is upload?
and that >1:2 means that upload > 2? (in the top option?)
Yeah I'm wondering the same thing.. It's kind of confusing..
I would see it as ">1:2" means like 1:3 or 1:4 since less than one to 2 is eqivalent to something like 0.5:4 which could be easier understood as 1:3 or 1:4.. Or am I missing something?
- xrnzaaas
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Depends on a site... on my two favorite trackers 4.0 and 4.9.
- GodZionu
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same here. it depends on a site. my usual is 3.something on most of the sites.
on my torrent it is showing this:
Total Uploaded 5.7TB
Total Downloaded 1.04TB
Total Ratio 5.439
Total Running Time 13471:49:54
Number of Torrents added 1631
Program launched 713 times
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dunno man, I just copy/pasted the poll from the poll suggestion thread, I thought it was confusing myself, but I posted it anyway
the way I understand it, you just ignore the 1: (which stands for the download part of the ratio), so that the question is: what's your upload ratio? and the answers: >2,2,1.5,1, <1, where 2 means 2 bytes uploaded for every byte downloaded
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Like this:
In 1:1, the first 1 is constant... there will always be a one there... the second 1 signifies that you have uploaded the same as you've downloaded. If the second 1 is actually 1,5 it would mean that you have uploaded 1,5 times as much as you've downloaded, and so on.
And stop trolling Niv!
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nivalis wrote:
i am, in fact, not trolling.
1. it was an uncommon use of relational operators
2. if the question is about upload, it would make more sense to have it first, eg. 2:1 signifying "twice the amount of upload compared to download".
3. ???
4. profit.
i like where that numbering is heading!
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nivalis wrote:
i am, in fact, not trolling.
1. it was an uncommon use of relational operators
2. if the question is about upload, it would make more sense to have it first, eg. 2:1 signifying "twice the amount of upload compared to download".
3. ???
4. profit.
Of course you were trolling... but nice try 
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santah wrote:
dunno man, I just copy/pasted the poll from the poll suggestion thread, I thought it was confusing myself, but I posted it anyway
the way I understand it, you just ignore the 1: (which stands for the download part of the ratio), so that the question is: what's your upload ratio? and the answers: >2,2,1.5,1, <1, where 2 means 2 bytes uploaded for every byte downloaded
That's why you never post them exactly as they're suggested - you fiddle with them, and rewrite them until they're practically unrecognisable!!!
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I would have a higher ratio if not for my limited internet for the moment but usually its about 1:2. Right now i cant handle that. So 1:1 or 1:09.
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nivalis wrote:
Mxyzptlk wrote:nivalis wrote:i am, in fact, not trolling.
1. it was an uncommon use of relational operators
2. if the question is about upload, it would make more sense to have it first, eg. 2:1 signifying "twice the amount of upload compared to download".
3. ???
4. profit.Of course you were trolling... but nice try
>.>
that is categorically, blatantly and manifestly not true.tl;dr: nah-uh!
Fine... you weren't trolling.... IN OPPOSITE WORLD! 
Re: What is your upload ratio?
well.... on most of the trackers I'm on, the ratio is calculated Upload/Download = Ratio
For Example: Upload: 20.95 GB / Download: 15.81 GB = Ratio: 1.325
I usually try and keep my ratio above 1.3
Hope I could help solve the confusion
- miGs
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Re: What is your upload ratio?
For example in the ratio 1:2, 1 will always be how much you download vs. the 2 which is how much you upload.
In the ratio 1:2, say for every 1 byte you download, you upload 2.
To get your ratio, get the amount that you downloaded and the amount that you uploaded and divide the upload amount by the download amount.
Ex:
-DL:162.7 GB
-UL:215.9 GB
-215.9/162.7
-215.9/162.7=1.32698218
Therefore, my ratio is 1:1.32698218
Rounded off to the nearest tenth, 1:1.3 which means for every 1 byte I download, I upload 1.3 bytes in return.
tl;dr
Mines 1:1.3 
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Re: What is your upload ratio?
my ratio is about 9 bucks a month i rapidshare
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dont have one...
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Re: What is your upload ratio?
nivalis wrote:
miGs wrote:For example in the ratio 1:2, 1 will always be how much you download vs. the 2 which is how much you upload.
In the ratio 1:2, say for every 1 byte you download, you upload 2.
To get your ratio, get the amount that you downloaded and the amount that you uploaded and divide the upload amount by the download amount.
Ex:
-DL:162.7 GB
-UL:215.9 GB-215.9/162.7
-215.9/162.7=1.32698218Therefore, my ratio is 1:1.32698218
Rounded off to the nearest tenth, 1:1.3 which means for every 1 byte I download, I upload 1.3 bytes in return.
tl;dr
Mines 1:1.3
this is what i mean, upload is the dividend, therefore the upload ratio must be described as upload:download
and when you compare ratios, it's.. lets suppose your ratio is 5, which gives 5:1 > 2:1,
the top option was >1:2 which is confusing since 1:1 also is >(1:2)
if you want to flip the divisor and the dividend, you must say that your ratio^-1 equals 5 (in this case)qed
Niv is right. This is backwards, and not just in a nit-picky "gotcha" kind of way, but in a confusing nonsensical way.
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squeakygeek wrote:
nivalis wrote:miGs wrote:For example in the ratio 1:2, 1 will always be how much you download vs. the 2 which is how much you upload.
In the ratio 1:2, say for every 1 byte you download, you upload 2.
To get your ratio, get the amount that you downloaded and the amount that you uploaded and divide the upload amount by the download amount.
Ex:
-DL:162.7 GB
-UL:215.9 GB-215.9/162.7
-215.9/162.7=1.32698218Therefore, my ratio is 1:1.32698218
Rounded off to the nearest tenth, 1:1.3 which means for every 1 byte I download, I upload 1.3 bytes in return.
tl;dr
Mines 1:1.3
this is what i mean, upload is the dividend, therefore the upload ratio must be described as upload:download
and when you compare ratios, it's.. lets suppose your ratio is 5, which gives 5:1 > 2:1,
the top option was >1:2 which is confusing since 1:1 also is >(1:2)
if you want to flip the divisor and the dividend, you must say that your ratio^-1 equals 5 (in this case)qed
Niv is right. This is backwards, and not just in a nit-picky "gotcha" kind of way, but in a confusing nonsensical way.
Oh, f*ck you're right that Niv is right!! My bad.
don't sweat the petty things, pet the sweaty things
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