>> Man, I cannot pull very close to 5 gigs a night, and I have broadband. <<

Comcast cable is at 4Mbps in my area, with uploads throttled to 384 kbps. If I go after popular and freshly seeded shows, it's not unusual to have four windows running at 60-80+ K/s down, 20-30 K/s up.

>>The share ratio enforcement is a good, prudent idea .... <<

As I admitted before, the problem was partly my own doing. I fiddled with the FLAC downloads, discarding songs I didn't want, not realizing I was already in deep trouble on the share ratio and that I should have kept them intact for continued sharing.

With dimeadozen.org, I've kept my share ratio above 1.25. Moreover, a lot of that has been serving up less active seeds and leaving them open as long as there are still people downloading from them. (I do that with TTD, too, since I myself am often in the same boat of catching the tail end of something ....)