Hello fellow TCP users.

I am currently having a lot of unused bandwidth. I wonder do you have any suggestion what to do with that bandwidth ?. Ideally it should more or less only relay the traffic because unfortunately I don’t have much idle RAM left (something like a Tor-relay node but least risky).

Thank you very much!

Edit: If you have any not so heavy torrent (<250GiB) that could be helpful please suggest as well.

Edit: Thank you for all the options you’ve suggested:

  • archiveteam warrior
  • tor relay/snowflae
  • syncthing relay
  • i2p
  • radicle
  • peertube
  • seeding torrents

I will try to explore them. Thank you very much!

  • xana@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
    1·
    3 days ago

    Yeah it is true but seeding torrents to sature bandwith is generally a good idea

    • pet the cat, walk the dog@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      As a seasoned torrenter myself, I don’t observe the ‘≥1 ratio’ rule, but instead delete torrents that have enough seeders and keep those which have just a few. This maximizes utility for those who might want the same torrents as I did.

      Of course, this inevitably runs into lack of endless disk space rather than bandwidth. And if you seed something other than Linux, you might want to research the authorities’ attitude toward that in your area.