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
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
My, admittedly limited, experience with private trackers is pretty much the only time I have seen power tripping worse than Reddit mods.
Yeah, private trackers really think they’re the best thing in the world, but Usenet is 10x better for half the effort.
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.
These clusters of shared servers are called News Groups
This is so wrong that it makes me question everything else you wrote.
I’m trying to keep it simple, since they said every guide they found was too confusing. But sure, you can stop reading right there if you want; I’m just a random person on the internet.
Usenet requires an indexer and a provider. An indexer indexes content. A provider is a server that hosts the content. Content is split into 1MB chunks.
The manual way. You look for content you want on the website of the indexer and download the nzb file. You download the nzb file, which a list of the 1MB chunks and put it in your usenet download software. The downloader then downloads it.
The automated way. There is a software suite called *arr. It’s not exclusive to Usenet; you can also use it with torrents. You search for the content you’re interested in and the software does the rest.
Trash-guides and servarr are popular guides.
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.
As a noobie, I’ve just downloaded a couple things I wanted that were also free leech coincidentally and then just kept seeding them. And now I have 515GB up and 87GB down. I know it’s nothing excessive, but I’m really not a hard core torrent user. I just fill in gaps mostly, where I was not able to catch something in the theatre or on a stream.
Can’t confirm that.
I have a 2TB seedbox and accumulated almost 20TB in upload by just being there and seeding about 40 releases. Mostly the Looney Tunes release.
Not that difficult if you seed 24/7.At best my daily upload (excluding public) is around 25-75 GiB
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We are also capped bro.
Not all slots are unlimited gbit.
My own slot had a basis speed of 200 mbps symmetric.
And often I can only hit a max upload speeds of 1-10 mbps and rarely more with less seeders on public trackers.I do it from home and do just fine.
My «trick» was to only download complete seasons and movies larger than 14 GB to get loads of freeleech to build ratio and just keep seeding them.I’m at >10 ratio on TL and stopped caring about sizes as the pool of old files outseed anything new I download.
But I get your point: it’s a hazzle doing it from home in the beginning.
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
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!
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 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.
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.
Also, are you sure you actually need a VPN? Most countries don’t give a fuck about piracy.
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.
I have a seedbox and have been using private trackers for well over a decade. I seed forever, or until I need space.
When I cannot find something on one of my private trackers I do look on public trackers. I find the experience lacking.
My issues with public trackers:
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Search sites are sketchy af. Between pop up ads and fake direct download links, it can be challenging to find whatever you are looking for.
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Files can be poorly tagged or completely named wrong. The number of times I have downloaded not porn only to find porn can be counted on one hand, mostly because the other hand is busy.
Anyway, I will gladly seed until the end of time if a public torrent search site exists that can get me the content I want without making me need a shower after.
Try rutracker, genuinely a excellent public tracker. Entirely in Russian but Google translate deals with that easily.
Search sites are sketchy af
Jackett solves that issue
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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’ll keep seeding the new normal even though nobody wants it to get to my 1.0 ratio even if it takes me a million years
Given it looks like you’re the only seed (and a quick check on lime torrents only has 1 seed for the new normal s01 ep 1-22 (I assume that’s the above ?) then yeah, you’re the only one fighting the good fight ! Don’t stop :-D
EDIT
Bollocks to bad search techniques - it seems there’s about 4000 seeders for multiple different copies of it (the above version does indeed only have one though). I just thought “sod it, if there’s only 1 seeder I’ll help out”. Went and looked again <sigh> Help not needed.
yeah its “The.New.Normal.S01” i got it from a website that was a magnet link that’s been around for 7 years with 44 files but i got it SUPER fast like less than an hour so i want to make it available for anyone else cause i loved the show and want others to have it too :3
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
Thank you so much for sharing this link - and for the post! I appreciate you :)
Also, seed to I2P trackers!! It’s now possible with qBitTorrent.
Ah? One moment-
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.
All that since… february?! how? I have had the same install for three years and I’m only at 400tb total…
(164 TB * 1024) / (16 * 3 * 30) = 116 GB pr hour while the computer is turned on (it’s turned off when I sleep so only online ~16 hours a day).
Theoretical maximum for a 1gbit connection is 125 MB pr second or 7,5 GB pr minute or 450 GB pr hour.
So it’s only using ~26% of it’s theoretical upload speed, which seems about right, those are the speeds I most often see my client running at, plus minus 26MiB/s.I average 6-8mb/s average upload, while having a 200 cap on connected peers. If I let it unbrided, the upload gets to 30-35mb/s but DNS queries slow down a lot (my isp’s router is crap). But yeah, you’re doing god’s work. What trackers are you on? I’m only on nyaa, plus a couple private ones.
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.
I try but it shows 0 active peers and doesn’t upload.
There is not always demand, you need to leave the torrent app running in the background when ever you have the PC on - then when someone wants it you’ll get a connection.
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Only one of the two sides needs a port open so I’m sure your seeding is contributing
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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.
