Thread: Tips to use your seedbox effectively.

First off, this guide is not about which seedbox provider you should use, or what kinds of things should you look for in a seedbox. This is about the practice of using your seedbox to really buffer your accounts.

Pick Your Torrents Wisely
This should be common sense by now if you have used any bittorent client before. Look for torrents that have a high number of leechers, while having a low number of seeders. Again, I repeat a low number of seeders. Just because the torrent has 10,000 leechers doesn't mean it's good for uploading if it has 100,000 seeders. You want a higher leecher count than seeder count. But again, this shouldn't be new material. Also make sure to check the peers list if possible on a big pack. Partial seeders (ie; people who download just a piece of the entire torrent) are listed as leechers even though they aren't downloading anything anymore.

Download Large Files + Packs
One mistake people use is loading their new seedboxes full of small torrents that may be hot for half-an-hour maybe. Instead, look for hot HD movies or for full seasons of popular TV shows. These are much bigger in size and usually stay active for a lot longer. Your seedbox has the power to pump out tons of pieces to other leechers and large packs are a goldmine. I've uploaded over 100gb in a day on one torrent of the LOTR triolgy. However, stay away from odd movie packs that are quite large. Many of the movies inside, very few people want, and usually do not up very much at all.



Don't Stack Dozens and Dozens of Torrents in Your Box
Each torrent you add, you consume more RAM. Once you get close to using all of it up, your speeds will drop severely. Having a few in there is cool, as I'm sure you box could handle it, but make sure you don't go crazy. This is usually only a big problem if you're on a shared server. However, if you have a Dedi or semi-dedi box, then feel free to add as many as you want as long as you don't overpower your machine.


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Please, feel free to add your ideas to make this guide better

Good advice, jut watch out for partial seeders, and make sure your ratio can take the hit before jumping on a large pack. :)

Originally Posted by Droid

Each torrent you add, you consume more RAM. Once you get close to using all of it up, your speeds will drop severely. Having a few in there is cool, as I'm sure you box could handle it, but make sure you don't go crazy. This is usually only a big problem if you're on a shared server.

I don't have a "pro" seedbox only my own homemade ones scattered around the wasteland, but I am keen to learn about them and possibly invest in one down the track.

My question is - even if you don't overload your torrents if say the other 5 ppl on the box all massively overload it will this also cause my speeds to drop severely? or is the ram somehow split equally between all the users so that one persons activity doesn't affect everyone else?

Originally Posted by TangoSeeder

I don't have a "pro" seedbox only my own homemade ones scattered around the wasteland, but I am keen to learn about them and possibly invest in one down the track.

My question is - even if you don't overload your torrents if say the other 5 ppl on the box all massively overload it will this also cause my speeds to drop severely? or is the ram somehow split equally between all the users so that one persons activity doesn't affect everyone else?

Yes, if the other people massively overload it, then you're speeds will drop regardless of how many you have. But most of the time this isn't a problem as the admins watch the boxes pretty closely and make sure no one is hogging memory.

My recommendation is : download only 2 torrent, after them finish, then u can start download new torrent.
Whatever finish, just let them seeding.
Its best way to get maximum speed.

Originally Posted by ScottK

My recommendation is : download only 2 torrent, after them finish, then u can start download new torrent.
Whatever finish, just let them seeding.
Its best way to get maximum speed.

So you mean like only download 2 at a time?

Yes, let torrent active (download) more than that will limit your speed, even with 1GBps seedbox. I use 1GBps now, and i realise this

Originally Posted by ScottK

My recommendation is : download only 2 torrent, after them finish, then u can start download new torrent.
Whatever finish, just let them seeding.
Its best way to get maximum speed.

i m agree with ScottK.and you have to be fast about adding torrents.but i add 5-6 torrents before i sleep.

Originally Posted by MadJack

i m agree with ScottK.and you have to be fast about adding torrents.but i add 5-6 torrents before i sleep.

From what I have read seedbox's take a lot of time to run/maintain without some type of auto uploader bot. unless you have incredible luck with timing.

When i get home from work and add new stuff on most of my trackers even the *newest* scene releases have dozens of people on them already :(

@ ScottK - Do you have any experience with auto upload/download scripts you could share?