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i dont need a seed box, i just download what i need or am asked for. i have been using btorrent for years and have great ratios on all my trackers. i just seed 24/7. if i download something i want with no leechers i just make my ratio up on another torrent with lots of leechers - easy.
i doubt a lot people with seedboxes even know what they have downloaded let alone use it. just obsessed with buffering there accounts without ever using them for the reason they're there.
1mb/s is not even close to the average speed of home connection upload, get back to reality.
I can not get passed 20kbp/s which is lame and impossible to set a 1:1 ration on most sites.
i think you are wrong....for ScT you need a seedbox i wouldnt be able to last with my 6/768 connection
I have sct, and I survived just fine with only 40kb/s upload, then they gave me up to 80kb/s upstream. Hell, I even got ~100gb buffer over a period of time before the speed increase. Now with only 0.75% of dl counted, its easier then ever! Thing is, you can't just go crazy dling anything and everything. Seedboxes are only needed for those who can't control their download habbits, or uploaders.
you are wrong.. i never had a problem with the third of your connection ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by hitman51
i dont know how it is nowadays, bc i still use ĩt 1.6.1 but i can not imagine that is harder than a year ago^^
you only have to pay attention to what you are doing the first weeks on a tracker. after that your ratio should be good enough to download what you want, when you want or the tracker just isnt for you ;)
I don't see the point of discussing this matter. How many times have we read here about this exact same discussion...
It's inevitable that different people will voice differing opinions, invariably right in their own ways.
A seedbox is good to make fast buffers, whereas home connections of average quality in any civilized nation (with, say, 1mbit upstream) work for slow buffer creation.
Yes, some sites make buffer creation difficult (BMTV, BM, and so forth), and yes, the seedbox helps make it easy.
Anything here we didn't already know?
-Sherman
NO you don`t need a seedbox on any tracker .. hmmm maybe on bitmetv :D
is very hard to seed in BitmeTV our SCT so need SeedBox...
Not true. It's all about not grabbing everything in sight. Get in early on a torrent. Make sure you are fully connectible (I see a lot who aren't). If there are free leeches on a TV pack or movie pack (grab those and let them run for X amount of days,weeks etc.).Quote:
Originally Posted by leomero
No one needs a seedbox, but it is nice to have and kind of a necessity if you are a hardcore torrenter.
If you have 56k then u need a seedbox ;) But nowadays most people can get good speed with ADSL. At least we in Sweden :shifty: And we also got a big fiber network.;)Quote:
Originally Posted by colbert
damn you Swedes and your fast internet! :P
If you have 56k then you would NOT need a seedbox. Let me explain:Quote:
Originally Posted by ConkiZzIf you have 56k then u need a seedbox ;) But nowadays most people can get good speed with ADSL. At least we in Sweden :shifty: And we also got a big fiber network.;)Quote:
Originally Posted by colbert
How do you propose to get the files from the seedbox to your computer?
Do you have any idea how long it would take to transfer any dvd or recent game?
It would be pointless unless you were just buffering to trade the account later.
I don't think anyone uses dial up any more. It's archaic. Most have either cable or DSL, well here in the U.S that is.
Iīve seen some things since Polarbear opened this post...
A friend lend me a seedbox and Iīve been using it for about 10 days.
Perhaps itīs just me or I see notable differences between today and 3 months ago.
Even with a seedbox today is not so easy to get extraordinary buffers, mostly in some top sites, like S*T and F*N, unless oneself becomes a slave of that compulsive fever that itīs so popular today.
Ten days ago I had a ratio of 3 at S*T, today I have 3.4, but yes, I got promotion in few days, with my home connection it would have taken me several months.
Itīs madness... i.e. I see a new DVDr release, perhaps 2 seeders and 8 leechers, in the time I download the .torrent, open it and begins to download it there are 4 or 5 seeders already... OK, I download the movie in few minutes, when itīs finished there are 10 seeders and 10 leechers, for 4 or 5 minutes I get amazing upload speeds and get 1:1 ratio, but then almost... no leechers, and speeds are far away from MBs... 50/150KBs... of course, we are 20 or more seeders with seedboxes and the leechers are mostly regular users with regular connections. At the end, after 3 days I can get 3-3.5 ratio.
The other way is using RSS and download everything downloadable... but I canīt find the sense to it.
OK, I must confess... Itīs kinda an addiction... but Iīm becoming a slave of this thing and thatīs not reasonable... itīs supposed that torrenting is for having a good time and grab useful things... I canīt and I donīt want to be in front of my PC refreshing torrents page every 3 seconds in 4 or 5 different sites, sweating like a pork and stressed with that crazy look.
As a side note, in others sites like TL or TorrentBytes things are slightly different... there you can get amazing ratios and buffers... there are so many leechers that you are always uploading at very good speeds.
And if we talk about not "high level" trackers, the thing can be absolutely madness... I got a 21:1 ratio in one site in 1 day.
In short, in ten days, in these excellent sites I got almost similar ratio with my home connection than with seedbox, the only relevant difference is the amount of data.
Iīll come back to my habits... Iīll run the long distance race with my home connection... Iīll seed until it dies and Iīll get very good ratios, as I always did... and the money I was thinking to spend in a box Iīll use it for donating to those sites that really deserve it and where I feel happy.
But, please, donīt misunderstand me, Iīm not criticizing seedboxes or seedboxers... thanks to them we all get benefits, and I know there are people who upload stuff for others to enjoy it waiting for nothing in change, and there are people that really like to share, not for promotions or that greedy feeling of seeing TB in their profiles. Itīs just that I donīt find the sense in my particular case.
And yes, now Iīm convinced, absolutely convinced that itīs not necessary to have seedbox for surviving in any tracker, unless you are looking desperately for promotions.
agree with OP, there are no trackers that REQUIRE a seedbox to survive
they make the job a lot easier though :P