Thread: Guide To Outside Seeding

This method has been a fav of mine for years now. This will hopefully help people that just joined a new tracker and want to build a good ratio before downloading and to help get your wait time down quickly. Well, here we go.

Note: The torrent example that i used is a movie that i watched the other day, try to find something with a more even seed to leech ratio or more leechers than seeders. Also, do not choose a torrent that is not 100% complete, and has a wait time, it wont work untill the wait time has passed.

Step 1: Open utorrent and go to Preferences and then UI Settings and make sure that "Don't start the download automatically" is checked.



Step 2: Find a popular scene release on your private tracker, something with lots of leechers and download the torrent file, DO NOT DOWNLOAD THE ACTUAL FILES FROM YOUR PRIVATE TRACKER.



Step 3: Find the same exact scene release on a public tracker and download the torrent file, i used IsoHunt.



Step 4: Open the torrent that you downloaded from your private tracker and the public tracker in utorrent (DO NOT START THE DOWNLOADS) and make sure that the file structures are the same, if they are not the same, keep searching public trackers until you find a matching torrent.



Step 5: Open the torrent file that you just downloaded from the public tracker in utorrent and start the download.



Step 6: Once the download is complete, stop it from seeding and remove it from utorrent.

Step 7: Open the torrent that you got from your private tracker in utorrent and Set Download Location...



Step 8: Choose the download location of where the files that you downloaded from the public tracker is stored.



Step 9: Right click and Force Re-Check.



Step 10: Utorrent will begin to check the files that you have already downloaded.



Step 11: Once utorrent is done with the check and the torrent is at 100%, click start and let the seeding begin.



Note: If the torrent stops at 98% or 99%, don't worry, it's because 1 or 2 of the files are slightly different, usually the .nfo or a sample. Just click start and let utorrent download the remainder of the torrent, it's usually 1 or 2 MB.

Once the seeding starts your stats will be credited with only upload and not download, unless it stops at 99%, which in that case your stats will be credited with a MB or so of download.



I hope this will help some people out.

Great tutorial, but i would like to add that if you get the same exact file from the public tracker as your private tracker(i.e. 100% in utorrent), you can SEED files even when your wait time is active. This is called cross seeding and is very helpful for new members on sites like TL, where there are initial wait times. Again, you need to have 100% of the file, so even if youre missing a 2kb .nfo file, you wont be able to cross seed IF wait times are active.

Originally Posted by scoobydoo

Great tutorial, but i would like to add that if you get the same exact file from the public tracker as your private tracker(i.e. 100% in utorrent), you can SEED files even when your wait time is active. This is called cross seeding and is very helpful for new members on sites like TL, where there are initial wait times.

Thank you for your input :) you have helped me in finding a flaw in my guide.

Originally Posted by scoobydoo

Again, you need to have 100% of the file, so even if youre missing a 2kb .nfo file, you wont be able to cross seed IF wait times are active.

This is why i said...

Originally Posted by SonGoku

Also, do not choose a torrent with a wait time, it wont work untill the wait time has passed.

But i should have clarified it by saying, "If you choose a torrent that is not 100% complete, and has a wait time, this method will not work."

What do you think, should i re-word the guide as stated above? I await your input. Thanks again for the post :)

This is a basic method which everyone should be using if you're on several scene trackers. Nice work, might help some people (hopefully not too many, people here ought to know this... :P)

Originally Posted by SonGoku

What do you think, should i re-word the guide as stated above? I await your input. Thanks again for the post :)

Yup i think you should change this line:

Originally Posted by SonGoku

Also, do not choose a torrent with a wait time, it wont work untill the wait time has passed.

and add the corrected one. this method is very helpful for new members to get rid of wait times or just to get some buffer, and everyone should know about it....nice presentation..

You can just add the private tracker to the list and remove the public.

That doesn't work for most private trackers, as that would mean you would only need someone's passkey in order to leech from their account. To prevent this you have to actually open the .torrent with utorrent.

well as you would be (of course) seedign other torrents from the priv tracker you could just copy the tracker with your passkey from it

That's exactly my point, that doesn't work... Try it for any tracker with a passkey in it.