Private Site Recommendations & A Few Questions!

**no_bother** · 02-19-2009, 01:04 AM

Scc is a bitch to keep a ratio on if you dont get stuff from the freeleech to keep a ratio. if you want 0day with freeleech then GFT or FTN, but good luck atm. Goem is a great site for movies, they dont allowe screeners. alot of freeleech stuff there too. tehconnection isnt bad, and I think is open signups too.

tl is an absolutely amazing site, it is possibly the fastest one Im on, because it has a huge userbase. RevTT is also good, similar to TL. its good to see people posting things like this rather than jumping into the requests first day and asking for SCT first day in.

Just dont forget, dont be a trader, noone likes them

**cinephilia** · 02-19-2009, 06:08 AM

why the hell did you edit the first post? it could have helped many members...

**redMonster** · 02-19-2009, 06:22 AM

The real reason for rarring files by the scene is (if you can understand):

quote from a different tracker

you're in a curry group whose whole 'thing' is racing). the race is to see how fast people can complete the release on the site, whose the fastest and who can get the most files in. a bunch of people on the FTP server are transfering from their pre sites or whatver RAR files to contribute to the release (dvdr, xvid, etc). This means a bunch of people can take advantage of the site's bandwidth because on FTP only one person can have access to a file, so splitting a release up into a bunch of files means a bunch of people can contribute to "the race" and the site most ends up receiving files from a bunch of different people/sites at various speeds, maximizing the amount of threads and the total speed that the release is complete. FXPing a file from a gigabit in Japan to a gigabit in CZ might only give you 2MB/sec. There are still ~90MB/sec of download bandwidth left unused. That's where everyone else comes in with their own files

The major advantage to rars is for racing. A group has certain affil sites which they pre (initially upload) their release on. Then the racers come into play and FXP the releases to other FTP sites all around the world (although a lot of it is done by auto-trade scripts rather than by hand these days). Now, if there was only one .avi file then only one person could FXP the file over to a certain site. If the site they're FXP'ing it from is only 100mbit then the file will only transfer onto the site at a maximum of 100mbit (normally less due to bandwidth usage and routing issues). This means that the file will take just over a minute to fully transfer to another site at the quickest pace. By the time it spreads to smaller topsites it will have normally been quite a while after pre. The solution to this is to split the release into a load of smaller files. These files take almost no time to transfer and numerous people can all transfer different rars to the same directory. So say that 20 racers start FXP'ing the same release to a certain topsite. They all do 2-3 rars each, and the release gets completed in >10 seconds. See how much more efficient this method is?

So no, rars have absolutely nothing to do with newsgroups or torrenting. Groups don't want their releases leaked to newsgroups or p2p.