SCT too much for me. How do I handle the upload?

[phoenixofflames]

Hello all,

I recently made an account in SCT. I bought a 10 GB upload credit. But, unfortunately, I am from a small country and the maximum speed is a 256 kbps DSL connection. So I got a shared flux hosting for $10 a month (i could not afford more). A 1.37 GB sample file downloaded in like 3 minutes. But, the upload for 5 peers is only 11.9 kbps :( . I asked the flux provider and he said that is the problem with SCT and he could not do much.

Now, I need to find out if this is normal or I should try some other cheap shared torrentflux hosts (i don't know of anything else which offer already setup torrentflux though) or should I trade my account for an FTN account or invite? The only thing is that I have already paid 10 Euros for the 10 GB upload credit. My download is one test file of 1.37 GB.

Kindly help me out.

[GuyFawks]

The problem is Sct + your connection. Even if you have a 100/100 connection its still hard to seed at Sct. Also if there are no peers (100seeds 2 peers) you will be uploading badly.

[phoenixofflames]

I had almost zero time to check it. I was all excited to see the download speed. I chose the first file I saw when I went to Browse and pasted the torrent link in the flux admin screen. It was 1% and stuck there. I reloaded the page like 2-3 minutes later and it was done. >.< The same file is having 11 kbps upload with 5 leechers? Now it is 14 kbps with 3 leechers and total of 64 MB done after almost an hour now. This is as bad as my dsl connection. How do people who use seedbox get high speeds? I have a 10 GB limit so I cannot get a lot of torrents on at the same time as well (yeah I forgot - it is max 3 simultaneous torrents as well ).

So, I guess the best way for me is to try and get FTN instead of SCT? (Just changed the signature.)

[GuyFawks]

FTN is just as hard to seed, but the difference is that they don't have any dl ratio. Only Ul and they require you to seed 36hrs or 1:1 (36 seed hrs)

[phoenixofflames]

Is that like you have to seed it for 36 hours since download? If so, it would be great, because I can seed stuff for many months. In fact, I seed pretty much everything I download thanks to my 500+250+500 GB hard drives. That was how I became a power user in BitMeTv, BitMe and Oink. It is only the upload speed which is the problem for me.

[Xtripit]

First of all you shouldn't trade invites or accounts.

By writing this same thread on another forum, which BTW was answered by someone from ScT staff, you just flagged yourself as a possible trader, which will get you nothing more than a banned account.

Second:

The only way you will survive on ScT with such small upload is to take advantage next time they have free leech. Get movie packs from popular actors etc. and seed them into infinity after that.

I only have 512KB/s up and have well over 100GB buffer in about 6 months by using that method.

Another thing is to grab some popular movies or series from some other tracker and once seeded back start seeding it on ScT. You won't get much upload on them but by seeding for long times, you will have less and less other seeds to worry about.

[enter8]

Phoenixofflames, it's one thing to start a thread saying "Will trade SCT with 9 gb buffer for FTN" and something entirely different to waste our time with this circuitous bullshit. If you think that we're stupid enough to believe that you made PU at Oink, Bitmetv and Bitme and were able to get into SCT and don't understand basic uploading concepts, you're highly mistaken.

No trading in the forums- and that includes the pretending-to-need-help-but-actually-trading form of trading.

[Xtripit]

Well if you wrote this thread for the sole reason of trying to trade it, then you are out of luck. Your account will be disabled on first login from a new user. So much for being circuitous lol

Seriously, while I prefer other sites, ScT is pretty good when you get a proper buffer. So repent and start making the account work for you instead of against you.

Also I can tell you upfront that there is no way anyone would be stupid enough to trade away his/hers FTN for an ScT account, buffer or no buffer. Even though I never trade, I know what price is set on trackers from being a regular at FST.

[enter8]

Well if you wrote this thread for the sole reason of trying to trade it, then you are out of luck. Your account will be disabled on first login from a new user.

ScT won't accept logins from multiple IPs? What about dynamic IPs? What if a person moves?

[Xtripit]

He gave lots of info on the account he had. It wont be any problem at all tracing it, and then they just wait for the IP change. I never said they don't accept logins from multiple IPs. I am guessing they do although not sure, not in the mood to go read the FAQ or search the forum there right now. His problem is the flagged account.

A dynamic IP will still when traced report back that it's from the same ISP, so that should not cause any problems ever.

If a person moves it is usually no problem, but it happens that they get flagged as possible trades. From what I know from staff at several sites, they will not usually disable an account right away, but it might be monitored if they don't know the user, and if more inconsistencies show, the hammer falls.

Pretty much if you treat the sites with respect and don't trade thus jeopardizing the tracker, you won't have a problem even if you get disabled by mistake. You can just talk to staff and get it re enabled.

There are off course exceptions to these things depending on the site or user, but that is usually down to the user either being a moron or dis respective or the staff involved being some jerk or power whore who like picking out users to torment or won't listen to reason.

[phoenixofflames]

Phoenixofflames, it's one thing to start a thread saying "Will trade SCT with 9 gb buffer for FTN" and something entirely different to waste our time with this circuitous bullshit. If you think that we're stupid enough to believe that you made PU at Oink, Bitmetv and Bitme and were able to get into SCT and don't understand basic uploading concepts, you're highly mistaken.

No trading in the forums- and that includes the pretending-to-need-help-but-actually-trading form of trading.

I am sorry, what? Of course I made this thread on two of the major bittorrent discussion forums so I can find out what exactly I could do to correct the problem. But, through the discussions/replies at both sites, I learnt that FTN would probably work better for a low speed user like me than SCT, and may probably like an invite in exchange for the account I would no longer be able to use usefully. Was that wrong? I don't see how it was but if you say you think that is not allowed at zeropaid, fine, I will not do that. I still am PU at Bitmetv and Bitme with just seeding from my normal home computer all the files I have ever downloaded for 10+ weeks now.

[robincheema]

i won't comments on the trackers as i don't belong to any being disscussed in this thread.
I think that uploading on any good private torrent tracker is a problem for most of us.. because the people who get the file first or people with faster connection will get more leechers.. i mean worlds most stupid client would connect to a slow connections.. anyways i think that when we start to download things that we really want we get our selfs in big ratio perblem.. and thats why public trackers are still alive, people can get what ever they desire, but on private tackers its hard to stick with your mind.. and if you really want that file you would need to download something before that will build your ratio up and give you a big enough buffer (ratio of 10 to 30) now most can't achive 10 to 30 but you got a seed box so it shouldn't be a porblem at all.. i mean people didn't have problem until now.. why would they have it now? anyways i personally think that seeding should not be considerd as the center of bitorrent comuntity and leeching should be more encoraged.

[Xtripit]

It's pretty much inevitable that seeding will become the center of ScT, since the main thing it is known for is the insane down speed. It's the fastest site on the net, and the OP should have known that before signing up. They have free leech several times of year, so if he is patient and uses it to his advantage when the time comes, then there should be no problem. My guess is around Christmas time, but you never know.

The way the OP describes the problem is hilarious, and if he has managed to become PU on BitMeTV, then he should have no trouble whatsoever getting something good out of ScT. The only thing he lacks is patience, and if he can't see that, then he should just let the account die a natural death.

[phoenixofflames]

...he should just let the account die a natural death...

I guess that is what I am going to do. Thanks for the advice though guys. Much appreciated.

[Collector69]

try using a rss feed so you can be jump on the torrent right away. porn good for getting your ratio up .. seedbox is a plus to.

[jam2k]

Buying ratio is pretty lame if you ask me.