The original post: /r/torrents by /u/visiny on 2025-07-11 17:05:09.
I've been using qbittorent for the past... almost 10 years now. When I'm downloading a torrent, and it tells me that there are 16 seeds and 11 peers, does that mean there are 16 people around the world seeding the torrent so I can reach 100%? And when I see that my download speed is 1.4 Mib/s and my upload speed is 1.3 Mib/s, does that mean that I'm contributing or seeding at the same time as I'm leeching the torrent? If a torrent is at 0.4% how is it possible to seed anything, because sometimes I go to the peers list and someone is seeding despite having barely downloaded the torrent.
Just was thinking about how I've been doing this for several decades and yet still don't understand the mechanics of it.