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"With put.io...you won't be hogging all the bandwidth." - How could this possibly save bandwidth?

Many people use ISP-provided router that choked when there are a lot of open connections. A torrent client will usually try to open as many connections as possible, pushing the router to the limit. Under that condition, if another user join the network and tried to browse the internet, he'll encounter a lot of connection timeout error. The only way to avoid this issue is to configure the torrent client to play nice (limit the number of connections) or tweak the router QoS settings to lower priority for torrents traffic (not sure if it's possible with encrypted torrents).

source: my apartment shares a single dsl router to all its tenants

Just set a number of connections in your client that the router can handle. Problem solved.

No seeding from your home internet connection.

I don't understand--you can easily turn off seeding from your home internet connection with any torrent software.

Many private rodent does require that you seed to remain in good standing.

Its not only that, a download over HTTP uses less bandwidth than a download over torrent because of the block overhead. It does end up being quite significant.

Additionally you don't need to upload anything at all to be able to download something. Typically when downloading a torrent you do have to upload something for the swarm to prioritize data to you.

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