Posts made by frostycab

Needless to say (I hope!) you should avoid doing ANYTHING else with the drive until you've tried recovery. If you overwrite the deleted data again you just make it less likely that you can recover it.

If I may suggest an alternative solution....

I was careless and rushed when cleaning up my system recently, and deleted the entire partition on one of my drives. Panic ensued as I obviously thought that was it since deleting a partition is usually more permanent than simply deleting the files. FEAR NOT! I looked around and found a little program called "Disk Drill" from Cleverfiles. Ran it and managed to recover virtually everything form the deleted partition.

Forget the free version as you can't really do anything with it, but I managed to find the full version on another torrent site and it worked like a charm. Have a hunt around and see if you can find a copy.

Anyone looking for a ratio boost should go and read the whole of this thread: https://community.gaytorrent.ru/topic/67291/upload-ratio-help?page=1

I've given instructions there on how to use a seedbox to get a massive ratio boost, and some users in there have found some that cost as little as €6 per month. One user managed to upload roughly a whole TB in just 24 hours and completely fixed his ratio, with the rest of the month free to build up a healthy buffer.

@wehadit-0 Have you tried clearing your cookies?

@frostygrin said in upload ratio help:

@frostycab

But I guess some people would just be OK being a CDN for other people with the seedbox, and then download what they want from their home PC.

That is precisely the advice I was referring to as it deals with the original point of the topic

@frostygrin I'll be honest and admit that that particular scenario isn't one that I've had any experience with so can't really comment on. I don't think there is any limit on how many torrents you can seed though. What I would say is that my comment was regarding seedboxes specifically and using them to improve your ratio. With the impressive speed ot most SB services, both up and down, there is little argument for using them for partial downloads, at least as long as someone is following the advice I gave towards the start/middle of this thread and using their seedbox purely to improve ratio

@frostygrin Interesting concept that I've not heard of before. Will have to look into that

@frostygrin I think you might have things a bit mixed up, though I'm willing to listen if you think I'm wrong about the following....

The buffer is how much you can download before you reach your own minimum ratio, which is never higher than 0.8.

Your total download on the site is used to set your Base Daily Limit for downloads. You also get extra download slots which are calculated by multiplying that BDL by how far you are above your minimum ratio. By the time you've downloaded more than 800Gb from the site your BDL is already 100, plus your extras for the ratio bonus, plus extras if you've uploaded in the past.... I doubt there are many people downloading that many torrents each and every day, even with a seedbox.

What I was trying to say is that a seedbox is a great tool for fixing a poor ratio, and for giving yourself breathing room, but people shouldn't feel like they need to chase ridiculously high ratios just for the sake of it. It's better to put yourself in a good position, and then if you have things that you want to seed then you can still seed them without the use of a seedbox, and saving some money in the process.

@thor9023 said in upload ratio help:

@frostycab yeah about that, I might just keep it running till I reach like 10.0 ratio something absurdly high

While I wouldn't say not to do it, there was a discussion somewhere in the forums a long time ago about how much is too much when it comes to ratios.

There were some well though out arguments in there, but I seem to remember the best practice was agreed to be that while "artificial" methods like seedboxes give you a boost, once you've got a healthy download buffer then enjoy that and just seed normally. This shares seeding more effectively with other users who do also need to maintain their own ratios.

For example, I have a ratio of 1.172 right now. That means I have a download buffer of over 53TB. That represents about 40% of all my downloads over the last 17 years. If you look at it another way, if I keep up the same average amount of downloading and never upload so much as a single byte that buffer would last me another 7 years before I drop to my minimum 0.8. As such, there's no real benefit to putting effort into boosting my ratio.

Like I said, there's nothing stopping you going for the record if you like, but in reality there's not much point in chasing ratio just for the sake of it.

@thor9023 Glad you got there/ Plus you still have, what, another 3 and a half weeks left of your seedbox?

What have I started??? At this rate I'm going to have to start asking all these SB companies for kickbacks! LOL

Just a couple of things to remember:

• Use the SB primarily for high-demand torrents, whether you want them personally or not. If you're grabbing something for yourself but there's little demand from other peers then you're better off downloading it directly and using the SB space for more popular files.

• Keep track of when your SB subscription ends and plan accordingly. If you have loads of stuff on there that you want to keep then make sure you allow yourself enough time to FTP it all to your local storage..

Interesting to see some boxes still working once you've passed your traffic limit. Might be worth a look at the terms and conditions to see exactly what they say and whether there's a second limit that cuts off completely or if the throttle you or whatever. I must admit that know just how much traffic you can generate I would only ever get a box with unlimited traffic.

I came across this too. I don't know if it's up to date or accurate, but some of you might find it useful if you choose to try:

Glad it's working out for you. It's awful if you suggest things to people and it goes wrong. LOL

Looking at the search page with all categories selected there appear to have been only 2 successful additions to the site in the last 18 hours. I would surmise that something on the site has broken. I've messaged to helpdesk to ask if they're aware of any issues, but it could take a while to get a reply. You'll have to hold your horses for a while I'm afriad.

Normally when I check the site for the first time each day there's a goo 50+ uploads since I went to bed the night before. Just looked and there's only been 1 new upload in the last 11 hours. Did something break, or is it just a coincidence?

@thor9023 Maybe you started a freeleech torrent and the freeleech ran out before you finished. Any part of it after the FL ends counts against you the same as it does with any other torrent.

Anyway, keep us updated. I'd be interested to hear how you're doing every couple of days to see how it work out for you. I'm sure we'll all do what we can to help if you haven't got your technique quite right.

To clarify the reasoning in my method look at this:

The fourth torrent down is a prime target for a seedbox. Only 1 seeder and 77 leechers. If they were all to grab to whole thing from your seedbox that would be approaching 20TB! Obviously they won't all grab the whole thing from you, but getting in on this early (It's only about 30 hours old) you set yourself up for a huge amount of potential upload traffic.

The first one doesn't look too bad either, but given that it's 10 days old now you might find that while nobody has snatched the whole thing yet they might have most of it, so that one I'd check the swarm on to see if it's worth keeping it going. (In this case it's freeleech anyway so if you can grab a good chunk before the freeleech ends then you're still going to benefit.)

@thor9023 If you target the right type of torrents with your seedbox your ratio will soar, trust me.

As often as you can, look through the recently uploaded torrents on the site and grab the ones with only 1 seeder and at least 10 leechers. Don't worry about whether or not it's anything you want personally, because you're only concerned with ratio. The bigger the better when it comes to download size! If you've grabbed a seedbox with a decent line speed you'll download to 100% way ahead of anyone else, while also being right at the front of the queue when it comes to being an attractive uploader.

Another thing you can do once you start the torrents is to just have a quick peek at the swarm for each one to see how much anyone else already has. If you swarm is full of people who already have 80 or 90% of the total then maybe it's not worth bothering with. You want to hit the ones where you have little to no competition.

To be honest it's been so long since I had a seedbox that I can't really remember, but I reckon if you stick to that method you'll have your 996GB within days.

@thor9023 No worries. I think @ianfontinell-0 has given a much better explanation than I can, especially as I start to waffle when I really try to get my teeth into things. LOL

As for being able to organise you torrents (including by tracker) I've found BiglyBT to be a great client. I've set mine up so that each torrent is automatically loaded and tagged with the relevant tracker straight from my Windows download folder. Anything I grab from the various porn trackers gets a "Porn" tag as well.

When the downloads finish they automatically get moved to a folder specifically for seeding, while also auto-copying themselves to a folder on my long-term storage drives for eventual sorting into my library. That way I can delete things that I don't want to keep while still leaving them to seed for a week or 3 in the client.

When The download drive fills up I just go through my client and remove anything that has lots of seeders and isn't showing much activity at my end. That way I'm keeping the most profitable(?) torrents running while getting rid of the chaff that doesn't benefit me at all.

@thor9023 The problem here is that you keep giving us only part of the information at a time, so it's really hard to say much. Those numbers could be awful or could be great, but what timeframe do they cover? Do you have traffic running on any other trackers through the same client, or even a different client running alongside that one? What speed is your internet supposed to run at, both up and down, and what speeds do you actually get if you run a speedtest? There are so many factors that play into torrenting.

I've got a 500Mbps internet connection. I just ran a speed test and got 50Mbps upload speed. At this precise moment my client is uploading at 4.2MBps (Note MB vs Mb as the client I use is reporting bytes, not bits.) The thing is by the time I finish this sentence it will probably read 400KBps, and then perhaps 2.8MBps at the end of this post. It's not stable, and varies second by second as different peers make requests to my client.

That's why it's more helpful to look at the individual figures on each torrent, especially if you're using multiple sites and trackers because that total figure is everything combined. Just to give you some idea, I tend to upload roughly 10 times as much data to gay-torrents.net as I do here even though I'm often competing with more seeders, and I have no idea why, but that means my total up/down isn't a fair representation of my performance here. You need to look specifically at the torrents on this tracker and see if they have any peers, and also if you're competing with 100 other seeders who might have better connections and therefore be treated preferentially by the swarm. As @Kekkaishi said, it's about offering the right material at the right time. I've got some torrents running that were added to the site years ago, and as such aren't in demand because everyone who might want them already has them.

Sorry if that's all a bit condescending, but I have no idea what your level of competence is so it's simpler to just state the basics.

What was the question again?

@cp2000 LOL Glad it's working out for you. Care to share your up/down totals since you got it? What is it now, about 3 weeks ago?