Torrents

On the one hand, I don't think seedbox speed should be based on your home connection at all. It is almost entirely about how much you want to seed, and to a lesser extent what trackers you are on. The faster your seedbox can send data, the better the ratio you're going to get. If you can hit your 1:1 within a few minutes of it showing up on your seedbox, that's awesome. On the other hand, I feel that storage space is more important, so if you have to choose between the two, I'd choose space every time unless it was prohibitive. More space lets you keep torrents around longer to accumulate bonus points and catch those later leechers that weren't in on the initial spurt.

I have 150 Mbps with a Whatbox, and as mentioned that's more than enough for most applications. But I paid a bit more to get more storage space so I could keep torrents around longer. With IPT using bonus points, my speed could be zero and all I'd need to do is seed for awhile and zap it with bonus points. Now, they only count 10 at a time I believe, but a tracker like BTN counts every single torrent I seed, and while they are ratioless, you need a metric fuckton of bonus points to move up in user classes, so letting me keep dozens of those torrents around really boosts my points, even though they aren't getting much traffic at all.

On the other hand, if all I dealt with was trackers like Torrentleech, which has no bonus points at all (and assuming it wasn't fairly simple to cross-seed from IPT), I might want a quicker upload speed so I could have a better chance of sneaking in upload more often. Without upload on a site like that, you're fucked, so it would be a lot more important.

So it depends, in my mind.

And Crone, are you certain about the IPT seeding time thing? I don't remember seeing anything like that, I thought it was entirely 1:1 ratio or zap.

Interesting, that's good to know. Although I have so many bonus points it doesn't matter, but still it is nice to see that people without the resources I might have can still seed and not get all butthurt like they were when the Hit 'n' Run system first got changed.

spronk_sl said:

free invites athttp://www.torrentleech(dot) org/account/signup using invite code SUMMER2014

no idea how good the tracker is never use it

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It's a great backup for IPT, but you have to make an effort, unlike IPT. If you have trouble keeping ratio on IPT, prepare for pain.

There are no bonus points, no freeleech, and a plethora of seedboxes. So you either need to get/have a seedbox of your own, or download shit from IPT and then cross-seed it to TL, which is extremely effective because they essentially have exactly the same torrents (just make sure you do it properly). I suppose you could get really lucky with a couple of seeds, but chances are you won't and you'll be left with a terrible ratio and never use it again.

In other words, don't just pick it up because you want to add another site to your collection. Pick it up if you want a good backup and plan to make a concerted effort.

A couple of things could be happening, several of which were mentioned already.

The tracker typically doesn't update more than once every 30 minutes, so if you delete it between those intervals IPT has no idea what happened during that time.

I had no idea that they had a 1 day requirement, but that would make sense as well.

Lastly, I *believe* they only track upload AFTER you have the torrent 100% completed. So if you did a ton of upload while downloading, it is possible none of that counted, even though your client is going to show it. It is also possible that, due to the 30 minute tracker update, it might not count any upload for up to 30 minutes after completion as well. I'm not sure, but since torrent clients don't seem to be able to split up "pre-100%" and "post-100%" traffic, it is entirely conceivable that IPT waits for the first 100% notice before counting anything. Which could fuck you pretty badly too, particularly on larger or high-demand torrents. I had one 10GB movie file that downloaded for fucking weeks because there was only one seeder, and he apparently had either a shitty connection or a limit on that torrent. Several other people joined as leechers during that time, so I got like 50GB of upload because they all got it from me due to his being so slow. However, none of that counted from what I can tell, because eventually the torrent stalled at 99.9% and never completed. I actually got everything from the torrent I wanted, just lacking some peripheral .nfo files and such, but from what I can tell I got 9.99GB of download, 0GB upload, and a hit and run for my efforts.