Torrents

Noodleface said:

I have gigabit and I'm still at like a 1.08 ratio. But I have stuff deleted after they seed long enough so maybe I need to change that to perma-seed some stuff.

Click to expand...

Noodleface said:

You need to find stuff that 10million people aren't also seeding but is still popular

Click to expand...

Keystone said:

I mean I've got 200/200 net, it's not that it's doing it slow, it's that it literally wont' connect to anyone to upload at all. Happened at my old house and I thought it was something to do with the ISP settings so I just gave up and waited untill I moved, but it's happening the same here. So I'm wondering if it's something to do with the way my ports are set up or some other set up issue on my end.

Click to expand...

Void said:

Makes me wonder. Are your ports forwarded properly? I see you mention this every few months, but only getting a few MB on any torrent is a prime example of not being connectable. Peers send requests, and your client responds to a few, but doesn't know how to keep up with all of them, so the peers eventually think, "Fuck this guy, he never responds to my calls!" and they all start ignoring you, and at that point you're fucked. I don't know if they actually keep a list of "bad peers" but it sort of seems like once you are labeled that way, they will only rarely even try you at all.

If you are connectable, you should be getting more than just a few MB on at least *some* torrents. Maybe you are being hyperbolic, and you get more occasionally, but you are just frustrated at your low upload speed. I get that, but I still find it hard to believe you can't get 1:1 on at least some files.

Click to expand...

Noodleface said:

If you have 75k bonus points can't you just increase your ratio?

Also if you're hitting 1:1 that means your ration will be aiming towards 1.00 right?

Click to expand...

Void said:

What you need to understand is called Port Forwarding. It has to do with accessing your router and allocating a specific port to be directed to your torrent client at a specific IP address. You can google it and find thousands of guides, but essentially you will first want to give your PC a static IP address. This makes it so that you can now tell your router that any time it gets a request from the torrent peers (which can be over a multitude of ports) the router will send it to a single specific port on a specific device. Otherwise, your router would have to try to connect to dozens/hundreds/thousands of different ports for each peer in the swarm. Now, any request gets directed to that one port, which Deluge is listening on (you'll configure Deluge with this port as well), and bam, you're connectable.

Yeah, it is more complicated than that, but like I said, google port forwarding deluge and I promise you'll have tons of videos and articles that say it better than I can.

Here is one video. I didn't watch it, but you can check several that might explain it better for you. From clicking through it though, it looks like it hits most of the salient points.


Also, turn off DHT as directed by every private torrent site. That makes it so you don't connect to "public" torrent clients, thereby potentially wasting all of your upload to some shmuck that isn't even a member of IPT, and also throwing off your ability to see if you are 1:1 ratio on a specific torrent.

As far as the talk about ratio on IPT, as stated many times, you don't need a seedbox. You either let it go until it gets 1:1 (which might never happen if your upload is weak) or let it seed for the required time limit (336 hours, or 14 days...should be easy for us to remember!). Then you can delete it or keep it going and you won't get a Hit n Run. But Void, that doesn't help my ratio! True, but as long as you keep 15 torrents seeding at all times, regardless of size, you will earn bonus points every hour (but only if you are connectable). If you really start running into ratio problems, spend those points on extra GBs, since aside from erasing HnRs, there is really nothing else to spend those points on. Those purchased GBs act exactly as if you uploaded that amount. Unless you go hog wild and have the absolute worst upload ever, you should be able to keep pace easily as long as you never get HnRs.

EDIT: I see dizzie posted while I was taking forever to make this post at work with the same port forwarding info.

Click to expand...

Void said:

Get an IRC client. I use pchat portable.
Connect to irc.irchighway.net.
Go to channel #ebooks.
Wait a minute or so after you connect, as there is a delay before you can search.
You might also have to register a nickname, I forget if that's required now or not.
Use "@search" followed by whatever you are searching for. (Rarely the search function is down, so you'll see people doing stuff like "@searchook" where ook is one of the providers in the channel.
If you get some results, it will download a zipped text file with all the results.
Open that up, and find what you are looking for.
Highlight the entry you want all the way to the extension (usually .rar, .zip, .mobi, etc.) Leave off the size info.
Paste that into the IRC chat window.
If you did it right, the provider will show that they received your request, and depending upon how fast they are, the size of their queue, etc. it might start immediately or it might take 10 minutes. You'll eventually figure out which ones are faster. "Pondering" is usually very fast. Occasionally they will show up in the search results but be offline, so you'll get no response. Just check on the user list for their name and see if they are online.
Once it downloads, the easiest thing to do is drag the file into Calibre (ebook program), where you can convert it to other formats, send it to kindles via the kindle emails, etc.
Repeat for as many books as you want.

Some of the providers have separate 0-day lists that aren't accessed by the @search command, they will periodically spam how to download them. Once you do that, you can unzip them and copy/paste from them just like if you had gotten it via the @search command.

Click to expand...

LiquidDeath said:

This is how I've obtained books for over a decade.

Just be aware that, just like torrenting movies and tv shows, if nerds don't like the books you want then they will be difficult to find. Source: trying to download books for my wife that nerds don't like.

Click to expand...