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I'm very new to the community as well as to downloading torrents in general. I've gained access to a few private trackers and am more than willing to share. Could someone please help me with some strategies to get a good ratio. I don't want to cheat ... I'm just seeing files with many seeders and no leechers and am wondering how I will ever get to a good ratio.
Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions.
Get the files as soon as they get uploaded. Usually these files have more leechers. Also try and partial seed until you get a big buffer, usually you can get a higher ratio by partial seeding rather than seeding 100%.
What is your connection bud?
Good attitude mate, that's what makes the private sites work. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by orb987
Grab a porn flick, even if you don't want it, and seed that, guaranteed to boost your ratio. :naughty:
Connection - Standard Comcast - avg 3.5 mb down - 275k up
Using uTorrent client
open firewall ports - accepting connections
seeding porn = good ratio :) In most cases :D
The best torrent(s) to seed are new video games and DVDs. Just pick the one that has the MOST leechers and FEW seeders, but DON'T download the whole torrent; just download 1 .rar file from the torrent then seed it.
That's what I do. I just download 1 .rar file (usually about 47MB) from a torrent and seed it for a week or so and I end up with an average of 2-3GB upload a day at a speed of only 31kBps (50% of my max upload speed).
It also depends on the tracker you are seeding in. Torrentleech is one of the best when it comes to maintaining your ratio.
If you are using multiple trackers, you can download a file on one tracker and then download the torrent files for the same release on other trackers and seed them there (for an infinite ratio on the file!).
Porn ofcourse, but I can totally suggest you to grab just a handful of .rar-files from a popular release. F.ex. when 300 DVDR is released, just grab like 10 rar-files (~500MB) or more, and just seed, seed, seed!
-Vidde
And after that seed a little bit more :D
Thanx For the Tips, I always wondered how people were able to keep a good ratio, while i struggle so hard to keep up on the Better sites.
I will have to put these to the test.
Thanx,
Fibo
The ratios in your pictures aren't too terrible. At least they're all above 1!
wow thanks for the advice on dling just few rar files! never thought it would work, cause i usually just download the whole thing, and since i have relativly slow connection by the time i finish not many leechers are left :(
I've never had any sort of problem with ratio until TL. There are some great ideas in this thread though, so thanks a lot. Hopefully it'll straighten me out.
excuse an ignorant punk like myself, but does this actually help DL speed on public trackers ?
UK
thx for the tip
u can download the sample of anewly uploaded film then seed it until u get agood ratio
a good guide in TL forum: how to survive ( don't know if i can't copy and paste here ). After reading this and with my own experience :
-download sample or some rar files of popular torrents
-choose the good torrent with the similar S & L - U can't have good ratio ,upload speed if there are 2 many seeders.
-download some from the public and seed it in the sites u want (remember that it must be the same )
-concentrate on some main or only 1 sites such as TL .It's great sites with best releases.
....some u 'll find out
Hope u will have a good ratio :)
I'm new myself to all this and trying to build up a good ratio on some trackers, but it does seem rather tricky! I think a lot of it is picking the right torrent to try to seed
Maybe someone can confirm this, but the impression I got was that this can be made trickier because sometimes a torrent with a ton of apparent leechers might actually be lots of people doing the 'download one bit of the file then seed' trick, so while there's a high number of leechers displayed on the tracker, they're actually not downloading at all...
Another thing I've been having trouble with is the 'downloading from a public tracker then uploading' trick - this seems like a really good way to build up an upload buffer before you even have to download anything, but the problem I'm having is finding the files on public trackers! Usually the ones the public trackers have have different names and sizes, from what I've seen...
that can be what is going on, esp. on oink, on torrent that are older, you might see a bunch of leechers, but they are really just partial downloaders.
sometimes i only grab a few songs.
when i initial joined oink, i downloaded a Rosetta Stone pack, only to find that all the leechers where just partial seeders. and i got burned on the download.
so you need to stick with new stuff
Gotten burned by that too. Lotta work to make up for that one.Quote:
Originally Posted by seppypom
make sure you are forwarding your ports correctly and leave your machine on 24/7 to let it seed, if your worried about ratio watch what you download and try to get in on torrents in their infancyQuote:
Originally Posted by orb987
thanks for the tip :)
I have never thought of this before ,many times ,when i finish dl and start to seed ,i strugle to reach 1:1 ,i think ,i will give it a try
If you have upload rights on your trackers then upload some files. All this partial download and cut on a new torrent is crap. Don't do that. Download files you want not partial or full files you don't want. Pointless that.
Or get a newserver a forget ratio problems:P
my technique is to always snatch hot files, like something everyone's been waiting a month to be released. grab it even if you are not going to keep it. then seed it 24/7 until you get a super good ratio on it. remember that you have to download a lot of crap first before you get the things you want. if all else fails, plan b. i used to ask my friend for files to seed. that should only be a last resort like on oink.
also, take advantage of free leech. snatch as much as possible in order to seed it back. i got into oink on a free leech period and that has helped me survive the ratio requirements. during free leech everyone is download and everyone is uploading. it's a gold mine.
You just have to leave your computer on and seed it all the time.
I would usually agree with you, but that method is actually helping me out big time. I joined TL, and it was the first time I'd ever been on a tracker with such fast download speeds so I fell behind on my ratio. I didn't go over the 5GB mark though, so I didn't get to the point of no return. In order to catch up I've tried the "partial download" method, and it's really pulling me out of the hole I foolishly created for myself. It's the only time I've ever been in a hole on a tracker like this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Windy72
I will say this though, it's only worth doing when you're desperate. :yup:
Wish I had read this thread two days ago!
Any suggestions on how to get out of a hole I've already dug?
I had been holding on to a few trackers that I really wanted to use and was starting to lose them for inactivity,
So last night I panicked and downloaded like 1 tv show each from the three of these that were most likely to inactivate me right away for inactivity.
None of these were very TV oriented, I just didn't know what to get, and I was thinking a smaller file would be better. so of course the shows downloaded, and I'm guessing no-one will ever leech from them becuase tv torrents lose peers quick...
After reading this it sounds silly that I got tv shows with very little activity on them, but I was panicked. It was on wild-bytes, iplay and
tvjunkies (at least that ones a tv site, but still same problem). I think the main reason why I got them, was because everything with lots of peers were very large files and I was scared to download something that big for my 1st download.
So now I need to get out of this hole quick,
Any suggestions on how to do some damage control?
If its obvious that these torrents are never going to get peers, how long should I keep them open to avoid it being considered a hit and run? I'm guessing a week, but have no idea.
I'm guessing that I will have to start a new torrent for using some of the stratiegies given here, but I'm not sure how large of a file to start with.
Should I wait and keep these torrents open for a while before I start a new one? I don't want to dig a bigger hole.
Popular TV Shows can be great if you jump on at the beginning, but you're right, they lose leechers pretty quickly. What I do for TV shows is just check the tracker a little while after the show airs, and wait for it to be uploaded. As for hit and run, on most trackers the rule is either a ratio of 1 or somewhere between 24 and 72 hours.
If you want to get out of the hole, I would recommend just checking the trackers and seeing what's new. Some of the new torrents are bound to be popular, and once they get a a few seeders and like 20 leechers, jump on and partially seed.
I do TV shows too. RSR was hard for me at first (mainly cuz I'm usually uploading to romania from chicago), But then I started getting shows like 24 and lost from TL (which is easy to seed) and uploading them to RSR. I also do this with app packs.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheQuasi
Sometimes i got an error saying existing data is too large.....Any advice. tnx.:)Quote:
Originally Posted by TheQuasi
I am trying to understand how to do partial seeding.
When I try to select just a box or two of the .rar files in utorrent,
the file won't download.
So I tried ol' trusty BitTornado, and it worked, but I'm trying to get all my stuff on one client, rather than two.
BTW, I'm doing this at Wild Bytes, but it seemed to accept whole files, I just couldn't get it to work with partials.
Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong?
Azureus? If so, look at this wiki page:Quote:
Originally Posted by kirktrixSometimes i got an error saying existing data is too large.....Any advice. tnx.:)Quote:
Originally Posted by TheQuasi
http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php...ngth_too_large
I try to find good torrents that are hurting for seeders, download the whole thing , and seed for a month. Also if you can find the torrent in better health on another tracker, get it there, and replace your incomplete download so you don't have to hurt the torrent before you help it.
Very good strategy :)Quote:
I try to find good torrents that are hurting for seeders, download the whole thing , and seed for a month. Also if you can find the torrent in better health on another tracker, get it there, and replace your incomplete download so you don't have to hurt the torrent before you help it.
A good ratio , needs a good internet connection sothat you can UPLOAD more or just 1:1 at tracker . So besides others good opinion , you need good connection . pay abit more for abitter connection ; )
great advice all..thx
Always have the files with greater leechers in higher priority and put all your files that u need to seed to boost your ratio in forced start if u are using uTorrent client
Great tips.
I usually keep my torrent program running for 24/7, i get like 2-4 ratio for the files i download.
But the partial seed tip is very good, i gotta try sometime.
Thanks
Over on TL, I put myself in something of a hole. Thankfully I remained under the 5 GB limit so I wasn't in any danger. I was able to dig myself out of the hole be doing the partial download & seed deal. I downloaded a a single rar from a torrent that was around 50 MB or so, and as of right now my ratio for that torrent is sitting at just about 50, and it's still going strong.