Torrents

Do I need to know any Linux for something like whatbox.ca, or can I pretty much do everything via the web interface?

I think I'm going to give a Whatbox a try, since there's no real penalty if I want to quit in a month.

I have one thing I'm not seeing a way to accomplish though, so perhaps someone can help me with a solution. I love that my RSS feed will get all the shows I want automatically, or that I can download a torrent file to my Dropbox at work and have it automatically start torrenting at home, so that they are just there when I get home and want to watch them. With a seedbox though, now when I get home I still have to download them to my computer. My internet isn't slow, but it isn't blazing fast either, and it might be half an hour or more before a show downloads, depending upon the size. A movie could be an hour or two.

I can't think of a way to make it so that anything I torrent on the seedbox can be waiting for me when I get home. Aside from skipping the seedbox and just going with a dedicated server and using Dropbox to sync, I can't really think of a way, but then again I'm not an FTP wizard either. And downloading everything to a Dropbox folder limits me to my Dropbox plan size, so getting a dedicated server with 500GB+ obviously becomes pointless too.

I know that Remote Desktop to my home computer would solve some of the problem, but if I'm not at work and just out somewhere where I can't RDP, and the RSS downloads something, I'm back where I started. I'm looking for some kind of automated method, but I'm unaware of what abilities FTP clients have for checking if something new is there. Any thoughts?

Other than that, I'm thinking a seedbox will be awesome for allowing me to completely shut off my secondheat-generatorcomputer. I'd just like to make it as perfectly awesome as a second computer is currently.

Cor_sl said:

Maybe this?

http://help.globalscape.com/help/cut...ng_Folders.htm

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Nice, that might be exactly what I need. It has the potential to cost me an extra 200GB of space on my hard drive when I copy stuff over to my real media directories on the NAS, but I can deal with that, and if I ever run that low it will be a good prompt for me to clear some shit out anyway. And I can set it to check every half hour or so too.

That's fucking awesome, thanks a lot man.

Zodiac_sl said:

rsync will do what you want also. a tip - whatever method you use, setup rtorrent to move completed torrents to a different directory and sync the "completed" directory and not your download directory.

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I did exactly that, so that I didn't get it running mid-torrent, but thank you for the tip. I might try rsync or something else too, because while this method works, it is fairly limited. I have to tell it to "always skip" if it has the same file name, because it has no ability to check for larger, newer, etc. While the separate directory should mitigate any issues with that, I still wish there was some sort of verification that could be done, not just a file name check.

Really loving the Whatbox so far though. If nothing else it will get me to manage my torrents a lot better, because instead of letting them just run I'm setting up special ratio rules for them, copying them to their correct folders on my NAS immediately, etc.

And if anyone is hesitant, I'd definitely at least start with a Whatbox for a month or two, even if you think another service might be better/cheaper. The wiki is one of the best I've ever seen, and it will basically walk you through setting up almost everything. For that reason alone I'd spend a few bucks more for a couple of months, just to learn wtf I'm doing.

Deathwing_sl said:

Got a good alternative? I keep thinking that myself. IPT is overdue for a buttfucking.

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Of the ones I'm a member at, TorrentLeech is the only one with the same quantity, but as previously discussed it is tough to get ratio. Even with my new Whatbox, if you don't get a torrent the moment it comes out you're going to have some difficulty maintaining ratio unless you use some tricks (like downloading it from IPT, copying it, and then seeding it back to TL). And of course BTN is my choice for TV.

As a poor man's substitute, trackers like SceneAccess are not terrible for a general tracker, and PTN (PirateTheNet) is pretty good as a movie tracker. I'm anticipating getting a PassThePopcorn invite this week, and I hear that is awesome for movies, but I have no knowledge yet. Many of these, and others, have invite giveaway threads on What.CD like the BTN one I mentioned, and probably have them at other trackers as well. That's the best place to get invites really; any "power users" forums on a private tracker will typically have invite threads because they want people with the dedication/money/equipment to become power users on their tracker as well. So check those and see what you can find, that's where I got most of mine.

Oh yeah, and Webop is pretty good for porn (and only porn).

TorrentLeech, of course, but I'm not sure if you'd really want that as just a backup, you have to make a pretty big effort there. PirateTheNet is probably the easiest as far as maintaining ratio, whereas from what I understand PassThePopcorn is one of the best, but I just joined last night so I can't really say. It clearly has a TON of movies, including old ones (right now they have a theme going on where you get extra bonus points or whatever for uploading old horror movies, so the place is flooded with awesome B-movie horror), but I don't know how hard the ratio will be to maintain. At first guess I'd probably say difficult. SceneAccess (SCC) seems to get a pretty good review everywhere, but I rarely use it, just grab a torrent here or there to stay active.

Both of them (PTN and PTP) have invite threads on the same forum on What.CD that BTN does. I'm assuming you have that access, but if not, send me a message. I think I probably have a PTN one, but not positive. I probably have an SCC one as well, and they are probably in the invite forum as well.

I'm sure there are at least a dozen other decent ones for backup, but those are the ones I have personal knowledge of.

EDIT: Forgot that I belong to Blu-bits too. Can't really say too much about it, about on par with the other ones I listed I guess. It has a bonus point system that lets you buy upload credit if you want, and despite hardly ever using it (and forgetting it even existed), apparently I've racked up over 16k bonus points, which would let me buy 355GB of upload credit. I'm listed as seeding 3 torrents, probably for months and months but still only 3, so bonus points aren't that difficult to get it looks like. I have no invites, however, so you'd have to look elsewhere.

Checking the others, PTN and PTP have a bonus point/GB exchange too, but far less than Blu-Bits. I have 140k at PTN, and could buy 200GB, but have been FAR more active there than Blu-Bits.