Hey all, I know a lot of people are migrating to private torrent sites, and OK, that’s a choice. However there are still a lot of people on the public torrents who are just leeching and not seeding.
I have several popular (old/classic) movies in my feed that I have uploaded (literally) 1000x the original and many more in the several hundred times. That’s fine, I choose to support the community, but it’s pretty depressing when I look at the seeders count and those movies have 2 or 3 other seeders.
This only works if you share. Please don’t cut off as soon as you’ve downloaded.
And on a personal note, if anyone has audio or video files for “Machine Gun Fellatio” also listed as MGF could you please start seeding in particular
“MGF Pack 1”
“MGF+Pack+2”
“MGF+Pack+3”
If I can get the download completed I’ll keep them up permanently, but unfortunately as they are obscure/rare I’m getting nowhere.
Rules don’t permit me showing the torrent link of course. DM if that would help
Just this past week I coincidentally got my torrent box back up and behind a VPN. I’m actively looking for popular torrents in need of more seeders, especially those on private trackers worth building some seed cred on. Anyone got suggestions? I’m open to books, libraries, certain genres of anime, feature length movies, various commercial software, and large FOSS software.
Transformers earthspark for one off the top of my head - my upload ratio is triple digits but there’s never more than single digit seeders
Issue is that most people can’t/don’t know how to set up a vpn and a torrent program that will give more than like a 10Kb upload. So even if they aren’t trying not to seed, they still aren’t by default.
My VPN doesn’t allow port forwarding so I cannot seed. If anyone has advice to safely seed then I’m all ears. I’ve paid a long time ahead for my provider so I cannot switch.
You don’t absolutely need port forwarding to seed. As long as the other side has a port open you’ll be able to upload to them.
You can seed without port forwarding, it just means the other side needs to have it.
Just keep your torrent client running and people will connect
Yeah I don’t know where get this notion that they can’t seed without port forwarding.
I have seen it a lot online being mentioned you needed portforwarding. So I just did not know it wasn’t needed. I will definitely start seeding all my downloads. I’m all for sharing and keeping the content public that is the whole point. Thanks!
If you are fucking power seeder chad… Sure
If you are just trying to pitch in, just keep rare shit up. Nobody asking for nothing more
I’d like to be a power seeder chad 😂 I just don’t know how.
I haven’t tried it yet, but I’ve seen massive lists of trackers floating around that you can add to your torrents, in case the same torrent is indexed on other trackers, but the torrent file you downloaded doesn’t know to search them.
Yes absolutely, keeping your trackers up to date is important, they do expire
for example
will give you an up to date list of live trackers to replace the dead ones with
I seed, but I’m behind a NAT I don’t control without port forwarding, so I’m not a good seed.
Maybe I will do the seedbox VPS thing… after I get employed again.
I download an iso image via torrent, that a way to “seed”?
You’ve had a good answer by letstakealook, but just to expand on one point, you need to leave your torrent application (qbittorrent or whatever) running in the background for an extended period. If you close the app and don’t load it again after you’ve got the download then you’re not seeding - seeding means to share it to others after you’ve finished downloading
I’m not sure why people downvoted instead of educating. To answer your question: no, it isn’t. It has been awhile since I’ve used torrents, so this may be a little out of date, but typically, within your P2P client you’ll have active “seeds,” including while you’re downloading. Some people immediately delete files from “active” after their download is complete. It is generally considered proper etiquette to leave the torrent active (at least) until it you have uploaded approximately 2x what you have downloaded. This helps keep torrents active and relatively quick, while not placing the bulk of the bandwidth burden on a few seeders.
Also… Low seeder torrents. That’d a spot to shine if you got to prioritize. Main stream shit has a lot of turn over.
If I have had Radarr and Sonarr rename all my files and move them. Is it still possible to seed them? Do I need to package them as torrents again?
Yes its possible, you can read the trash guide how to do it
Thanks.
Really! 😅 I hate the elitism, interviews, etc of private trackers, so even though I have the knowledge and seed constanly, I only download from public trackers, in order to seed content that will remain public and accessible by everyone
Yeah, private trackers really think they’re the best thing in the world, but Usenet is 10x better for half the effort. My current ratio is ~30:1 for public torrents, but I pretty much only use them on the rare occasion that Usenet is missing something. I honestly couldn’t give a fuck about private trackers when Usenet exists.
Do you know any good Usenet guide out there? The ones I found were confusing, I don’t even know how to start really
Not off the top of my head.
You can think of Usenet as a sort of second internet. Usenet providers sell subscriptions to access their servers, just like ISPs sell subscriptions to access the internet. Each Usenet provider has their own servers, and multiple providers will group together and share data. These clusters of shared servers are called News Groups. Each news group occasionally has different stuff on them, but most have started cooperating to try and establish parity. So in most cases, you only need one news group subscription.
There are occasionally updated news group maps that get posted, and they usually look something like this:
The important point is that the providers in the same news groups will all essentially have the same content.Subscriptions come in two different forms. The first is a pretty standard monthly subscription. You pay for a month, you get unlimited access for a month. The other form is a pre-paid plan, sort of like pre-paid cell phones. You buy a certain amount of data, and then can download that much data. So maybe you buy 500GB, and then when you hit your 500GB cap it either charges you again for another block of data, or it cuts you off if you don’t have it set to auto-renew.
Most Usenet users will have both types of sub; They’ll use a monthly unlimited subscription for their primary news group, and then have a prepaid plan for a second news group (or just fall back to torrents). The idea is that the vast majority of your downloads happen via your primary news group, and you only fall back to your prepaid plan (or torrents) if something isn’t available on the primary news group. So you’re not constantly burning through a prepaid data cap.
Browsing Usenet is done with a news reader. This is a program that acts sort of like a torrent program does for torrents. It connects to the usenet servers, and you can browse what they have. Most usenet subscriptions will also come with a free news reader download, or there are a few FOSS ones you can use instead. Or if you’re using the *arr suite, you configure it to search for files automatically based off of certain criteria, and it handles the searching for you.
The important point of Usenet is that it’s not peer-to-peer. It’s more like a dead drop, where an uploader drops the file onto the news server, and then other users can download that file for a certain amount of time. Each provider has their own retention period (how long they’ll hold onto files, that got uploaded) so that’s something worth looking at when you’re shopping for a provider; Longer retention periods will mean finding older content is easier. So you’re not going to be stuck waiting on seeds or buried in leeches, because the server already has the entire file ready to go. In my regular use, Usenet downloads regularly max out my gigabit connection.
Worth noting that copyright takedowns are the primary reason for failed downloads. DMCA takedown requests will still affect Usenet, but only if their servers are in the US. Try to search for NTD providers instead. NTD is the Dutch implementation of DMCA. It still results in takedowns, but it doesn’t happen nearly as often.
I’m on IPT and TL and getting ratio on them took fucking forever. It’s basically impossible to do via seeding because everything gets flooded with seeders instantly. Occasionally they have stuff I can’t find elsewhere but I mostly use public ones. If I didn’t have to maintain a ratio on the private ones to download I would be seeding so much more of their shit. IMO seeding time is a much better metric to use to enforce seeding than ratio.
My, admittedly limited, experience with private trackers is pretty much the only time I have seen power tripping worse than Reddit mods.
Once I have a job I’m going to rent a seedbox for public trackers. Fuck DMCA!
Why not build a seedbox for yourself?
Not a bad idea, all things considered. The only issue is that I would need collo space and a VPS in non-DMCA land. The hardware behind a seedbox shouldn’t be that crazy anyways, just a lot of bandwidth and a lot of storage
Bandwidth & speed, mostly
I have fast internet for my area and they match my UL to my dl (a rarity) but my seedbox in the Netherlands had the capacity for 5x that bandwidth, meaning basically all of my torrents download lickety split and I’m usually high in the favored seeder list due to my connection, allowing me to quickly earn my ratio back
I feel you. A few weeks ago I finished a 450GB torrent that had like 5 seeders all super slow and wouldn’t even connect most of the time. It took over 7 month in total.
Also, seed to I2P trackers!! It’s now possible with qBitTorrent.
You see, the problem is that radar and sonarr move my files into designated folders. That is a good thing, but it also makes it so that my download client can’t find it again to continue uploading.
I have now set it up so that I keep a copy in my downloads folder for a week, but I don’t have the space to permanently keep two copies of all my downloads.
It would be great if radarr could tell my download client where the file has moved to so that it can keep on seeding indefinitely.
You can configure radarr and sonarr to use hard linking instead of moving the.
Yes, but hardlinking doesn’t work if the files aren’t on the same petition.
My downloads folder is on the main harddisk.
The files are moved to an external ssd.Have you looked into Remote Path mappings? I have not had to employ this myself, but my understanding is this allows you to avoid file duplication when your *arr and torrent client are using different filesystems.
Maybe I’m mis-remembering though…
I will look in to that
By default both Sonarr and Radarr copy files, not move them. If they’re being removed, something else is likely causing that. Some torrent clients have options to remove files after downloads are complete, maybe you have that turned on?
Telling your client where the file has been moved to wouldn’t generally work, since Sonarr and Radarr will reorganize and rename files, so you couldn’t keep seeding from them.
That only works if they’re on the same drive or petition.
I know, but they didnt specify if it was on the same drive or not.
By default Sonarr and Radarr both copy files, not move them, so the files shouldnt be disappearing from the original drive.
I haven’t gotten around to finishing my stack but i could’ve sworn that’s the default behavior
I believe it is, but I don’t think it always has been. I’m not sure if they automatically enabled it for existing installs when it was added.
Hey all, I know a lot of people are migrating to private torrent sites, and OK, that’s a choice. However there are still a lot of people on the public torrents who are just leeching and not seeding.
Effect. Cause.
After I’ve gotten 1gbit fiber I tend to try and hit ratio 1000:1 on anything I seed. Back when I was on xDSL connections before fiber, I tried to hit 1.1:1 because my thinking was if everyone tried to do that, there’d literally never be data loss.
I recently tried getting “The Sinking of the Laconia” miniseries and it took 8 days to get it. But I’m not member of a private tracker where it was available anyway, so sometimes public is better as long as one is patient.I’ve been seeding for over 3 years. I only have a torrent that got up to 980 of ratio, if I remember correctly
It doesn't take too long with smaller <1GB releases.
EDIT: I am pretty happy about the one at 755 ratio. 78GB * 755 = 57TB. That alone is 35% of everything I’ve uploaded since I installed qBittorrent in February.
As another public only user, gotta emphasise this. I’m on a pretty quick fibre connection, so luckily it’s not a bother for me to get really good ratios but every little helps folks!
