Topics created by Poernerlook

@Poernerlook Just out of curiosity, are you using uTorrent 3.6.0 or BitTorrent 7.11 by any chance? This is one of many known issues with these torrent clients. While we recommend uTorrent 2.2.1, the latest version that works properly with our system is 3.5.5.

@eobox91103 said in Question About Using Bonus Points:

@bi4smooth said in Question About Using Bonus Points:

So far as I can tell, if you STOP SEEDING, the site will eventually STOP listing the torrent as "downloading" - e.g. you CAN abandon a download - but to do so, you have to REALLY abandon it...

Just remember that "stop seeding" means removing the torrent from your client's torrent list. You can keep the files you've downloaded, and even keep the .torrent file on your computer if you want to come back to it in the future. In uTorrent, this means right-clicking on the torrent in question, and either selecting "remove" (which keeps the .torrent file, but it's inactive), or choose "remove and delete the torrent [and perhaps the downloaded files if you don't want them]."

Full disclosure: Brother bi4smooth has convinced me that uTorrent is a POS and I'm going to migrate to qBitTorrent, but I don't know how that one works.

Thanks for the faith! 🙂 I do love the qBitTorrent program - somewhere hidden in the forums is a how-to with LOTS of tips on setting it up specifically for here... I'll look for that link and post it here if I can find it....

To your point: the process is the same in qBitTorrent - you choose delete, then get an option (check-box) as to whether to delete the files associated with the torrent.

I will say, though, that the mods have FULL FAITH AND CONFIDENCE in the version of utorrent they promote on the QTM installation page...

But torrent programs are like shoes... everyone has their favorite, and as long as the job gets done, they generally aren't noticed much....

@poernerlook A seedbox is a 'virtual computer' connected to the internet that you can connect to remotely and it only has 1 application running: as torrent client.

You connect to it via an encrypted channel from your computer so it's private to you The seedbox itself is usually on a country different than yours and the same laws don't apply there. Seedboxes usually provide a VPN service as a plus (depends on the seedbox)

As I'm writing this I realize that this might be more involved that you want. But it's a possibility. And you are already forwarding ports and stuff. This might be an interesting project for you!

1. Use a VPN (Virtual Private Network) - plenty offer free trials. Gmail is fine.

2. If the 35 videos can be a considered a "collection" then that likely could be a good option - but if one of those files are taken down by a DCMA request, the whole torrent will have to go. You don't need XXgb worth of content, but you do need to seed it to completion and preferably keep seeding it for a while to ensure at least others are seeding it as well. You get bonus seed points for simply seeding, they do add up over time.

3. There may not be a huge difference unless the other computer has different/additional bandwidth available to help seed.

Some of your questions made it worthwhile to refresh my memory on some issues (thanks!) - https://phys.org/news/2015-04-bittorrent-digital-fingerprints.html

@Poernerlook:

Thank you for all your tips!

I still didn't download more than 1 gb, but I understand that downloading heavier files (such as 555 photos) can affect my ratio so much.
If I may, I have a newer problem (and even a more critical one). Because I am a horsemen of the Apocalypse when it comes to technology. I managed to fuck things up and had to reinstall windows completely, thus losing all of my torrents and files for seeding*.
It may come a bit selfish, but for the sake of my account, my first priority is to bump up my ratio once again to a "safe zone" (because between my last message and this one, my ratio dropped to 2.6). How do you recommend to do so?
Of course I want to seed because it's the right thing to do, but being banned won't help anyone.

*Technically I do have one file left on another computer, but I won't be able to reach it until Tusday

It's not selfish to worry about your ratio, it's smart.  So many people get off on the wrong foot with their ratio.  Just focus on freeleech torrents for a while and you shouldn't have problems building up a good ratio based on a decent amount of downloading and uploading.

@Poernerlook:

One of the reasons I'm a bit stressed is because my computer acts up even though it's less than two months old, so I'm a bit paranoid

That is frustrating but unlikely to have anything to do with torrenting unless you downloaded a malicious file.  There have been some reported on this site, but as far as I know, no standard video file types were involved.