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[J0nn0666]

Am thinking of getting a seedbox,but would like to know if anyone is using one here,and what host you use?
Also if you have any help for setting one up,and actually using it,that'd be a great help!

[sjmike]

I know cotis and deadone use a seedbox, try contacting them.

[J0nn0666]

Thanks mate....OMG can't believe i mis-spelled seedbox! hahaha

[wolf]

its very simple to use, its like ftp server. You just upload stuff on and it creates a torrent. I have used a few in the past and all of them were great. I would highly recommend these:

https://www.santrex.net/
http://www.seednet.eu/
http://seedbox.me/index.php

[J0nn0666]

Thanks Wolf,if it's similar to FTP,then it should be fine for me,have used loads of FTP's in the past.When you download a torrent,can it be downloaded directly to the seedbox?And then seeded from there,and downloaded to me when i want to?Will give it a try,thank you.

[wolf]

yeah you can download a torrent directly to seedbox and seed it, and then you can later on download it to your computer via ftp or http.

Thanks Wolf,if it's similar to FTP,then it should be fine for me,have used loads of FTP's in the past.When you download a torrent,can it be downloaded directly to the seedbox?And then seeded from there,and downloaded to me when i want to?Will give it a try,thank you.

[J0nn0666]

Sounds cool,will give it a try.Thanks mate.

[The Commader]

Seedboxes are not fair against other user! It should be not allowed!

[J0nn0666]

Seedboxes are not fair against other user! It should be not allowed!

It's not a competition mate,you can only seed if there are people to seed to.You could have the fastest connection in the world,but if no one is leeching,it'll make no difference whatsoever!I download from lots of sites,and with me and my mrs.both using our connection,i'm not really getting much done.With a seedbox,i can use the seedbox connection,which would free up mine,and also i don't have to leave my laptop on all day/.night.It's a no brainer really...And there is nothing to stop anybody getting a seedbox if you can afford to.

[deadone]

Seedboxes are not fair against other user! It should be not allowed!

well i pay for the service and like posted in a thread a while back its fair to me to use 1 as its my money.
saying its not fair is not always the case. i would guess %90 of the users who download here dont share anything and that should be allowed either but thats a completely new topic/debate.

anyway i will try and explain it a little for you J0nn0666.

when uploading a torrent using a seedbox your upload speed is far better, depending on the package you get of course.
my package has 100gig storage 10mbit upload bandwidth with unlimited torrents (subject to the package disc space available) traffic is unlimited to both upload and download. my old package had only 20gig space and 2mbit upload speed, so using this i got 250kbs upload on my seeds. so improving my box improved the speeds.

and of course the download speeds are better as well.
but remember its only as fast as you home connection will allow when tranfering data to and from the box.

When uploading files to the box in prepearation of creating your torrents to seed your up speed will be as fast as your line/isp allows - The seedbox will upload the % of files it has from you upto 11.3 mb/s or as fast as your peers can download.

i only have an 8mb connection so uploading a dvd takes me quite some time, but once its on the seedbox and i have created the torrent within the GUI i can delete the files from my pc and they will remain located on my seedbox.
the files will remain on your box untill you delete them. thus why im on the 100gig storage plan.

if you download a show using the seedbox then once the file/s have been download you will have to transfer them to your pc for playing/viewing etc.
i use ftp to transfer the completed downloaded files to my pc then delete the files from within the seedbox to make more free space available if i need it.

you dont have to delete the files from the seedbox once you have transferred them to your pc, if you wish you can create a new torrent with any of the files you have located on your seedbox, just add the new tracker url and share the file/s as normal.
you can also if you wish create multiple torrents of the same file/s and share them all at once on multiple trackers. but obviously your upload speeds will be split depending on peers connected to them all.

and best of all while seeding or downloading from a seedbox you home connection is left free as a seedbox is a torrent client running on a server with a high speed connection and you home connection is not used.

hope this has answered some of your questions.

Regards
Mick