Ridiculously Long Wait Times

[enter8]

Has anyone signed up to a new tracker lately and noticed the ridiculously long time new users had to wait to be able to download a new torrent? I just signed up for site that requires 48 hours. 48 hours! On small private trackers do you know how many leechers there are after 48 hours? For most torrents, just about none. No leechers=no upload=crap ratio=ban city. You're pretty much doomed at the start.

I can certainly see how a tracker, in the interests of promoting honesty and sharing, might ban users with poor ratios- heck, if I ran a tracker, I might ban anyone under 1. But to make new users wait 48 hours to DL a new torrent is just overkill, imo.

Penalize bad behavior, don't jump the gun and be pre-emptive about it.

As far as I can tell, an exceedingly long wait time with a pay for upload option is just an underhanded way of creating a pay tracker.

[DigitalJunkie]

Be happy, at least you can get stuffs for free & not all sites does this! :)

[qwnpr]

Well, that's how everyone got started. I managed to overcome that back in the day when I had a 256kbps/128kbps connection. You need to download popular torrents (even if you don't keep them afterwards) and keep seeding for loads of time (Weeks, not days...). You'll eventually upload enough to get ride of waiting times.

[isus]

So go download the item from another tracker and seed it on your new one. And I always have leeches. Right now I have a torrent I downloaded on June 28 with 3 peers, I'm connected to one and uploading at my limit.

It's not about downloading your file and then removing the torrent and thinking "I got banned because they had such a long wait time boohoo" it's about downloading the file and seeding it no matter what until you've got the ratio you want.

[enter8]

Fine, I'll stop whining ;)

So go download the item from another tracker and seed it on your new one.

Does that work? Pardon my ignorance, but I was under the impression that when you create a new torrent (with the same file found in another torrent) it gets a new hash number, so if you try to seed a file from one tracker to another, even though it's the exact same file, if the torrent for the file is different, then the hash number is different and it won't seed.

Am I missing something?

[qwnpr]

Don't know if there's an easier way, but what I usually do is start the download so the BT client creates "empty" files, pause/stop it in the BT client, overwrite the files with the completed ones from the other site, and restart it in the BT client.

[isus]

Fine, I'll stop whining ;)



Does that work? Pardon my ignorance, but I was under the impression that when you create a new torrent (with the same file found in another torrent) it gets a new hash number, so if you try to seed a file from one tracker to another, even though it's the exact same file, if the torrent for the file is different, then the hash number is different and it won't seed.

Am I missing something?

Just download the torrent off the new site and start it. Granted, I don't have much experience with wait times, but all the trackers I have checked out allow you to download the torrent, but will not allow you to download.