Thread: What is the best method for increasing you ratios?

Alright! so i'm thinking of buying a seedbox for 1 month. Am i right in saying that the seedbox seeds even if your computer is off. And that it won't use my connection but its own to download and upload torrents?

Which of the methods is the absolute best for increasing your ratio. The best should include on average the most leechers, the best constant or averagely high up speed etc.



Thanks

swood

Yup a seedbox is a server, and uses a seperate connection from your connection, so it essentially uploads and downloads even when your PC is off. Keep in mind though, that to get what you download with your seedbox to your PC, you will probably need to use FTP, and it will be limited by your connection.

If you really want to increase your ratio automatically, i recommend you use rss feeds to automate downloads. You could only put your favorite shows, or just some popular shows so you get them very quickly and seed them. konVILEuted has a great rss guide here:http://www.torrent-invites.com/tutor...wnloading.html .

Originally Posted by scoobydoo

Yup a seedbox is a server, and uses a seperate connection from your connection. Keep in mind that to get what you download with your seedbox to your PC, you will probably need to use FTP, and it will be limited by your connection.

If you really want to increase your ratio automatically, i really recommend you use rss feeds to automate downloads. You could only put your favorite shows, or just some popular shows so you get them very quickly and seed them. konVILEuted has a great rss guide here:http://www.torrent-invites.com/tutor...wnloading.html .

Thanks scoob
What is a FTP and does the FTP only limit my connection and by how much?
Also what actually are RSS feeds?

Thanks a lot
swood

FTP, like HTTP is a file transfer protocol, generally used to transfer files from client to server or the other way around. This is its biggest advantage, as HTTP allows only one way transfer, but FTP allows both way data transfer(e.g if you are an uploader, you could send data to your seedbox via FTP).
What i meant by limited by your connection is that your seedbox will download the file at say 100Mbps. After its done, youll need to get the file to your pc via FTP. This max speed will be the speed of your home connection.
As for rss, they are just web feeds, that are updated by the sites as new content is added. They are a very convenient way to know what new torrents have been added. Along with that, RSS feeds are generally updated couple of minutes BEFORE the website itself, hence allowing you to grab the torrent before a lot of people. As you know, the first 15 minutes of a torrents life, especially on hard to seed trackers, is absolutely crucial.

Originally Posted by scoobydoo

FTP, like HTTP is a file transfer protocol, generally used to transfer files from client to server or the other way around. This is its biggest advantage, as HTTP allows only one way transfer, but FTP allows both way data transfer(e.g if you are an uploader, you could send data to your seedbox via FTP).
What i meant by limited by your connection is that your seedbox will download the file at say 100Mbps. After its done, youll need to get the file to your pc via FTP. This max speed will be the speed of your home connection.
As for rss, they are just web feeds, that are updated by the sites as new content is added. They are a very convenient way to know what new torrents have been added. Along with that, RSS feeds are generally updated couple of minutes BEFORE the website itself, hence allowing you to grab the torrent before a lot of people. As you know, the first 15 minutes of a torrents life, especially on hard to seed trackers, is absolutely crucial.

Thank you so much for the explanation. Really helped

I think a combination of RSS and cross seeding would be the best.
Download a popular torrents from a easy to seed site like IPT and upload it to a harder to seed site like TL

How much do seedboxes generally run?

I just got into a few new trackers and am currently cross seeding from TL to improve my ratios elsewhere. It's a pretty slow process, unfortunately.

Best way I think to get ratio up on general tracker is download the popular TV shows each day of the week with RSS.

You know the download is going to seed well because the TV show is popular...

like other people said cross seeding is a great method. grab something on a easy to seed site and seed it on a harder site. seedboxs are nice but some are very costly and if you get one make sure they have good speeds.