I just got into Ace Torrents; is it any good? I did a search and looked into the tracker review thread, but it didn't tell me much.
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I just got into Ace Torrents; is it any good? I did a search and looked into the tracker review thread, but it didn't tell me much.
well as an 0day site it's quite nice although speeds and pre times aren't as good as other sites.
I'm actually downloading at max speed as we speak, planning to upload lots and lots over the next few days if it turns I wanna keep using this tracker.
How does its content compare to say, TB or Bitsoup?
TB has better speed than AceTorrents
You can't compare those trackers with each other. AceT has 6.5k users, TB 60k and BitSoup 105k (or something like that).
AceT has been a cozy, quiet and small tracker for a long time and I don't believe open signups will do much to change that. I was a regular customer of theirs because they had pretty good music collections but that has changed too :(
I like acetorrents, the speed is very good. I'ts underrated.
What's TB stand for?
well TB have more than 60K members,Ace have just over 6K members..so many members from TB have SB so its the speed better,but i cant say that Ace is slow..its almost the same speed for me:)Quote:
Originally Posted by fstokebanget
but sure TB have much better pretime than Ace atm
Better pre-times than Ace? Perhaps. Much better pre-times? I really doubt it. Pre-times in lower minute or even second range can be beaten, but hardly by much. :-DQuote:
but sure TB have much better pretime than Ace atm
Last time I was in a tracer channel (a few weeks back) Ace was not the slowest by far and some times beat scc and sct on pre times and people think that slow.....
erm ok if thats slow could some one please tell me what fast is :)
Itīs a good and honest tracker. I like it very much.
Staff is very kind and they have a decent collection of releases, seed bonus, lots of freeleech, and other goodies. Speeds are not the best and pre-times either, but are not the worst either.
By the way... a good member of FST has won the Lottery at AceTorrents. Congrats. :clap:
6 month bump, noice :D
/me checks lottery, nope me not winner <again>!
Wasn't me either lol :P dammitQuote:
Originally Posted by SgtMajor
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Originally Posted by Tanuki
Keep trolling for your tracker. Now I've heard of it, so I guess it's working.
Duckater, those people actually had a point. AceT wasn't the fastest for quite some time. And the number of new torrents we were able to provide were far from impressive. But things change, so did we. Approximately 6 weeks ago we had some internal 'upgrades', which tremendously improved our speed and our range of new torrents. And believe me, we are working hard to improve our speed even more. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Duckater
Hi Nemrod, little update. Our staff is still of the very kind variety, but seed bonus is gone and we reduce our freeleech a bit. Hey, sometimes I had the feeling we were a public ftp server. ;) This might be seen as the not so enjoyable changes, but did you check our speeds and pre-times lately? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Nemrod
Ahh there is nothing better than see old thread...
well Ace is good but atm maybe 10-15 torrent are uploaded per day and that really is not so great and maybe a little more leechers would be good too
True 10-15 is not so good. But we also had days with ~60 new torrents. We are working on it. And I must say the last weeks the general supply of interesting new stuff was a bit limited. Damn season breaks. More leechers....yep this is our weak point. As I mentioned before we dropped our seeding bonus. This my sound strange, but by making it harder to keep a good ratio, we hope to encourage better seeding. Additionally we are working to improve our member base. We are now strictly invite only. We experimented a bit with open periods, but we were very disappointed with the results. Don't expect open registration times any time soon. Or, what is more likely, don't expect them at all. We currently have ~7k members. A good deal away from the 'big guns', but were are growing. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by fOrUmAs
yea of course there was days when there been uploaded many more than just 15 per day but in general it is abouth that number..Quote:
Originally Posted by TanukiTrue 10-15 is not so good. But we also had days with ~60 new torrents. We are working on it. And I must say the last weeks the general supply of interesting new stuff was a bit limited. Damn season breaks. More leechers....yep this is our weak point. As I mentioned before we dropped our seeding bonus. This my sound strange, but by making it harder to keep a good ratio, we hope to encourage better seeding. Additionally we are working to improve our member base. We are now strictly invite only. We experimented a bit with open periods, but we were very disappointed with the results. Don't expect open registration times any time soon. Or, what is more likely, don't expect them at all. We currently have ~7k members. A good deal away from the 'big guns', but were are growing. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by fOrUmAs
yea i know u disabled seedbonus but there are also Irc bonus (15MB per 15 min) if i remember good,so maybe there also to cut a bit of Irc bonus would help..
yea that is true,open signups are not so great and its good that is invite only..
but anyway i hope to see much better days with Ace;)
We are actually thinking about dropping the irc bonus. Probably not today or tomorrow, it is never good to change too many parameters in an experiment at the same time. First we want to evaluate what the result of our removal of our seed bonus is.Quote:
Originally Posted by fOrUmAs
And thanks for your friendly wishes. With our late improvements, not only technical improvements, but also personnel improvements, we got some new and very dedicated staff members a few days ago, I think we are on a very good way.
Hmm.. I think..
AT's great 0day tracker
completely retarded. more members=more peers=easier to seed=more interrst in your tracker=more support=more donations=more money in your pocket. theres nothing i hate more than newly created trackers that think they are elite because their member limit is <10,000 and they hide their url. (FTN, FTWR, FSC, UK-T are the only exceptions because they have been around for quite awhile and have gained respect)Quote:
Originally Posted by Tanuki
IIRC, Ace Torrents isn't "new".
PMSL newly created tracker :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by lukeecompletely retarded. more members=more peers=easier to seed=more interrst in your tracker=more support=more donations=more money in your pocket. theres nothing i hate more than newly created trackers that think they are elite because their member limit is <10,000 and they hide their url. (FTN, FTWR, FSC, UK-T are the only exceptions because they have been around for quite awhile and have gained respect)Quote:
Originally Posted by Tanuki
I been on ace for over 90 weeks :D
So you not long heard about it, maybe that is due to the fact they wanted to keep out of the lime light and if so have managed to do that well :)
So maybe you should re-think your policies on posting things in forums about sites you have little or no knowledge of :)
AceTorrents is just your average tracker...I could even go saying it's below average imo. But, anyhow, there are less and less general trackers out there that impress me.
AT is ok.. not bad.
Nothing wrong with Ace, to the newer user it is awesome to the more experienced user it is average at best.
ummm.
i don't know ㅜㅜ
If you like it and find it useful,Then that's all that matters.
:)
It was me!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by SgtMajor
Last Lottery1 Winner Last Lottery Winner JROQuinn Last Amount Won437.11 GB
:D
I still use it occasionally, last resort before checking demonoid
I have heard that Acetorrents is good. But the sign up is 'invite only'. How do a newbie like me do that?
After you've been a member here for a month you'll be able to use the BTT invites forum where you can make a request for that tracker.Quote:
Originally Posted by sky66high
Thanks for that info. I will follow your advise and wait for the right moment.
AceT also has an invite channel. If you can find it. Endure the heat of a very painful interrogation. Agree to sell your and your families souls to me. You might have a slim chance to get an invite. :-D
i like acetorrents ..because they have good preetime when it comes to tv shows..
I love acetorrents. However, today I was banned from it, just after having received on last Sunday a PM telling me that I would be banned in 2 weeks time if my ratio wasn't above 0,5. So just after 5 days I am banned, with a ratio of nearly 0,5 (last time I checked it was 0,486), having seeded everything, as it says on the rules, for at least 48hours (most things you seed don't have any leechers) and having a COPS megapack uploading at full speed.
So, brilliant site, but a bit extreme when enforcing their own rules and their own terms... Is it my fault that nobody downloads what I have to seed??
I am sorry I posted this here, but it's the only place I think someone from acetorrents will read it, since I cannot access their IRC channel.
Cry me a river, adleos. I just checked you profile. You were not banned because of your bad global ratio. This is more a sign for staff to take a closer look into someones account, rarely a reason for banning. You were banned because most of your downloads were h&r's. Even worse, you continued to h&r within an active warning period. This is something even the most lenient AceT staff members frown upon.
If by H&R you mean downloading the things I was interested at and then seeding them aiming to that 0,7 ratio (or 48 hour seed) they asked for in the rules, then of course I am a "problematic" user. Nevertheless, if you ask for either one of those things, I cannot understand why it would be considered hit&run downloading something and then seeding for the period required with nobody else downloading.
:S
By H&R we mean, hitting and running on almost everything you download. Hitting and running means you downloaded it, and did NOT seed it back properly to either a .7 ratio or for 48 hours as required. 48 hours is EASILY attainable, but must be done in a reasonable timeframe as well. It doesn't mean download it today, and wait a week before you start seeding it back. You seem to think we can't SEE the activity in your account or something, but there was a clear pattern, and the staff did exactly as they should have done.
You showed total disregard for the warnings, downloaded more, failed to seed properly, and then while your ratio was already in the tank, and not showing much sign of recovery, you download the LARGEST torrent you can possibly get, knowing full well that this would throw your ratio further down the gutter. Doing that is like a slap in the face for the community as a whole.
> I cannot understand why it would be considered hit&run downloading
> something and then seeding for the period required with nobody else
> downloading.
It isn't. Unfortunately you did not not seed the required 48hrs. Most of your downloads had a ratio < 0.7 and were far from 48hrs seeded. Many were even far from 24hrs. You were warned because of that and did it again. Now you are banned. Tough luck.
And btw. the 48hrs period has nothing to do with the number of available leechers. Even if there is not a single leecher for 40hrs, you don't know if after 40hrs and 5min someone appears, who would gladly download from you.
That was a free torrent.Quote:
Originally Posted by FatBastard
I am just saying that if you send a warning and threaten somebody with a ban in 2 weeks, keep in mind that you are giving a period of time to let that user work it out, and that was exactly what I was doing, following recommendations made at the forums where you recommended "download a FREE torrent which won't damage your ratio" or "look for the torrent with most leechers and less seeds".
Anyway, I can't have my BT on all day and I had it on as much as I could seeding. I understand your points and I am sorry that I didn't get there.
I don't want this to sound rude, but could I donate to the site?