Thread: SeedBoxOne.com

Name: SeedBoxOne
Speed: 1 GBIT down/up (that's what is written on their homepage..)
Support: Well, the support is great, if the support guy has time to answer and deal with my problems. You can talk to support via Skype or send them an e-mail through the site. I'd give 8/10 to the support.
GUI: uTorrent WebUI v0.380 WIP
Speed of GUI: Not that good..
Package: You can choose from the website, how much storage do you want. I took 122 GB.
Price: £15.62
Overall rating: 5/10

Thought I'd write the review after my month is over, but I'll write it now. I've been using their seedbox for a week and I'm not satisfied at all. I just wanted to get the box for the Christmas period, to buffer my accounts.
Well, it all started like this. I wanted to pay with Paypal, through the site, but I didn't have the credit card linked to Paypal. So I talked with support and he told me to just transfer the money from my Paypal to their Paypal account. After that he setuped my box, got the login details pretty fast.

Logged in to WebUI and started to add some torrents. Well, the download speed was awesome, hitted 20-25 MB/s, but here's the catch. If I'm downloading, lets say, 5 MB/s or above, the upload speeds just drop to zero, or it's uploading at very minimal speeds. But hey, what the hell is the point of downloading, if I don't get any upload credit? Most of the uploading happens, when we are downloading, to share the pieces what we get. And when I finish the downloading, there are only a few leechers left, so how the hell I am supposed to buffer my accounts?



About the upload speed.. When I'm seeding the torrents and ain't downloading anything, or the download speed is minimal, it's usually hitting 1-3 MB/s.

Aaaand about the FTP download speed. That's very good, maxed out my home connection. So for downloading, this seedbox is awesome, but for uploading... I'm not sure..

A few days ago, they got some new servers and they told that it'll have faster uploading speed, but it's even worse. The box has crashed many times, it doesn't download or upload at all. Now I'm talking to the support to put me back to the old data centre, at least it was more stable there.

But ohh well, despite that they don't have high upload speed (by high, I mean 100 mbit, what seems to be standard nowadays for boxes ) , it has helped me to upload almost 1 TB in total, between several sites. So can't say that it's been totally useless, but it's also my own fault, that I didn't research enough. And in the end I'll post a screenshot of a record that I've seen only once on my box, most of the time it was 1-3 MB/s, even on "hot" and fresh torrents.




I'll keep you posted, if I've got any news. And sorry for my English, I know it ain't that good, I'm working on it

All the best,

seed3r

Hey,

Thanks for taking the time for the write up :)

I see you have made a comment about the server change and the speeds on the old server - we a are a relatively new provider and we are always trying to provide the perfect setup. We understood that the last provider was not providing the best setup - hence the change.

If you are unhappy with the current setup, we would be more than willing to maybe try you out on a new set of servers we have coming in?

Let me know either on here on through SBO support.

Regards,
Danny

Well yeah, I was quite angry and pissed when I wrote that review Now I'm back on the old data centre, they sent me the details and now I'm back on the older uTorrent WebUI v0.370. And you know what? It's moving much faster, GUI is faster, adding torrents is faster, even the speeds are better and constant. The whole WebUI is more stable.
When I first recieved the box, I asked where can I see the peers, cuz there wasn't that peers tab. Then the support told me, that I can't see peers in the old version, so they updated it. I guess it was uTorrent's version all the time, cuz now I'm downloading like 10 MB/s and uploading 3 MB/s, and the speeds won't drop to zero anymore. So I'd like to test the older version of uTorrent on the new data centre, to see, maybe the speeds are more better there. Just wanted to let you know, that it's better now. I'll talk to you on Skype tomorrow :)

Good to hear - let me know if you have any issues :)

Danny

Name: SeedBoxOne
Speed: 1 GBIT (as mentioned on their web page)
Support: 8/10 (Email and Skype)
GUI: uTorrent WebUI v.0.370
Speed of GUI: 8/10
Package: When you order through their website you can choose HDD space and the price changes (min 50GB / max 500GB)
Price: £6.99 per month for 50GB HDD space.
Overall rating: 5/10

I have used a seedbox from this provider some months ago when their speed was 100mbit and i was satisfied with their services especially because of their low price (it was £5.99 for 50GB then).

This time i have a new one with advertised speed of 1GB. I can easily say that the speed i am getting now it is lower than i had some months ago when they used an 100mbit connection. I use it for 2-3 days now and i never got the feeling that i am using a seedbox with 1GBIT connection.

Maximum downloading speed was 10-11 MB/s with a torrent from SCC with over 30 seeders and maximum uploading speed was 2-3 MB/s with 65-80 peers connected to me. I have a Neon plan from Feral Hosting at the same time and just to compare them i stopped seeding from SeedBoxOne and add the same torrents to Neon plan (that it is 100mbit) and i got DL speed up to 25-30MB/s and UL speed around 4-5 MB/s with less peers connected to me.

I believe that the speed problem is based on the number of users sharing the same connection and not on the HDD speed because when i tried to deleted some data from the server using Cute FTP the delete performed very fast even when some torrents were as big as 4-5GB.

With the GUI i didn't have many speed related problems and it was very responding when adding or removing torrents (I choose only to delete the torrents and not the data through GUI).

A problem that i had with the GUI at the beginning was that the port that was assigned to the WebUI was identified from Google Chrome and Firefox as a suspicious port and they both blocked the WebUI from loading.I had to manually add the specific port to the browsers exceptions to load correctly.

I haven't asked from support this time but from the previous experience with them some months ago i was satisfied with it.They responded fast to my emails and Danny, the person who replied was very polite and was very willing to help me and solve any problems i had.

Downloading from the seedbox using FTP is fast and if you use a download manager to download your files through HTTP is faster and probably will max out your connection (I can download with 1.2-1.5MB/s using Internet Download Manager and this is my maximum downloading speed)

They provide you with a proxy server with the same IP with your seedbox to use it with the trackers that they need it.

Hey tel1os666,

Sorry you are not happy with the speeds - depending on the plan you purchase speeds can vary. Most users with your current plan (£6.99 50GB) see speeds of around 10-25MB/s download.

If you are still having the issues you have mentioned above - please feel free to contact support and we can look into / move you to a different server :)

Let me know how you get on.

Danny

My biggest concern isn't the DL speed but the UL speed. I didn't get the feeling that i am getting any benefits from using 1GBIT connection in the swarm. Even when i have many peers (leechers) connected to me my uploading speed isn't anything great especially if you take under consideration that the line is 1GBIT and not 100mbit.

Do you think there will be any improvement, mostly in UL speeds, if you move me to a different server?

P.S. In my small experience with different seedbox companies i came to the conclusion that the most difficult for them to provide to the customer is the uploading speed and not the downloading speed.

Originally Posted by tel1os666

My biggest concern isn't the DL speed but the UL speed. I didn't get the feeling that i am getting any benefits from using 1GBIT connection in the swarm. Even when i have many peers (leechers) connected to me my uploading speed isn't anything great especially if you take under consideration that the line is 1GBIT and not 100mbit.

Do you think there will be any improvement, mostly in UL speeds, if you move me to a different server?

P.S. In my small experience with different seedbox companies i came to the conclusion that the most difficult for them to provide to the customer is the uploading speed and not the downloading speed.

Yes that is very true - it is hard to say if the uploading will improve with the new server - but I will let you have both accounts in tandem so you can trial the new server without risk of losing your old account.

As for the seeding, it can be pretty complicated to work out why it is not seeding - most of the time it is down to the peering (high latency) to certain countries e.g. if someone is using an Asian tracker, the seedbox will lose out to local users who have better latency - connection speed doesn't really play any part in how many leechers will connect to you. But when they do connect you should see much better upload. Also you will find most seedbox's are located in Netherlands and France - so you should find upload to these users much better.

Hope this helps :) Please note I will need any personal account information through email and not on the forum for obvious reasons ;)

Danny

Yes that is very true - it is hard to say if the uploading will improve with the new server - but I will let you have both accounts in tandem so you can trial the new server without risk of losing your old account.

As i stated in my review Danny is very polite and very helpful and here is the proof for that.

I will send you an email to arrange a small seeding test with 1-2 torrents on another server.

As for the seeding, it can be pretty complicated to work out why it is not seeding - most of the time it is down to the peering (high latency) to certain countries e.g. if someone is using an Asian tracker, the seedbox will lose out to local users who have better latency - connection speed doesn't really play any part in how many leechers will connect to you. But when they do connect you should see much better upload. Also you will find most seedbox's are located in Netherlands and France - so you should find upload to these users much better.

Thank you very much for trying to explain the seeding process to me mate. I haven't take the latency problem into consideration only the connection speed of the seedbox.