I've had torrents take years.

I've got one on 537 days right now, it's at 92.4%.

It's basically lost media otherwise. Every few months, some extra pieces show up and I see some progress... I really wonder about where its coming from. There's usually 6-8 of us on it and I've never caught anyone with 100% online.

This is still running. Sitting at 95.8%, with three unconnectable seeds and 41 unconnectable peers. I get a new piece every few days, so I'm confident it'll get there eventually.

I've had torrents run for months. Usually with just one seeder that only connects periodically.

I had one that only had 1 seeder and they were only online for like 20 minutes a day. Took over a month to finish that torrent. I think it was like 35GB for a complete series of a hard to find show.

So annoying waiting for that torrent to get to 100%.

I'm 34 days into a 30 GB file right now. Gotten 1.6 GB and seeded 1.3... There's one seeder that shows up every once in a while and seeds at less than 1 kb/s. I dream of one day finishing it

Before torrents, back when I had a new Compaq Presario with 28.8k dial up and a 40GB hard drive, I would set Napster to download 3-4 128k bitrate MP3s overnight and hope the modem wouldn't disconnect during that time.

Around 4 months. It only had a handful of seeders that were online sporadically. And it didn't help it was over 400GB.

And I thought 3 days was an eternity.

currently, my longest running one started last december. i don't remember if any others have taken longer than that for me.

Idk. Usually if I have a really slow torrent, I find another source. Or I give up and do something else. If it's really that slow, by the time it completes I probably won't care any more.

It took a couple of months or so, it was long ago. A few days ago I found the original torrent file while cleaning old HDDs and I tried to reseed the torrent but all the trackers seemed dead.

Dunno what this has to do with experience?

I remember I was downloadning 45 gb game and max payne 3 took whole night and then few unseeded torrent took like 2-3 or like 7 days more than than that maybe I guess cause I was always downloading back then

Are we copying the Karma farming posts from reddit as well? What's up with that?