If You Don't Know Why Public Trackers Suck

**napho** · January 26th, 2009, 08:21 AM

here ya go. I usually get 1.1 MB/sec speed on private trackers within 30 seconds.

**carpefile** · January 26th, 2009, 08:33 AM

Yeah, hmmmm.
Apparently I know how to use pub trackers waaaay better than you then.

**RACKnRAIL** · January 26th, 2009, 08:39 AM

I still use Demonoid and Piratebay once in a while. I know Demonoid is a so called private tracker, but not really. It is good for a few hard to find files though.

I have come to accept the number of seeders/leechers to be absolute bullshit.

**drtoker** · January 26th, 2009, 09:34 AM

I dont think the numbers lie, they just show all peers. They don't just show connectable properly configured peers who aren't using a mod client to disallow uploading, or people who limit upload to 1kb/s

**Drew Wilson** · January 26th, 2009, 10:27 AM

I've used a public site on a rare occasion and, most of the time, there's barely a noticeable difference between public and private trackers.

Edit: You weren't, perchance, downloading a bunch of other stuff at the same time, were you?

**drtoker** · January 26th, 2009, 10:32 AM

Depending on the torrent, 9 times out of 10, I'll get between 1-10kb/s on most public trackers. Never had an issue on private (except lack of seeders) with speeds, or newsgroups. Its the (public tracker) peers lack of understanding about bittorrent that does it, not just that its 'public'. Its not a user error on our side :P

**Xtripit** · January 26th, 2009, 11:02 AM

You should show up speed as well. Usually when I get speeds like that.. even on private trackers. It's when there is something else using most if not all my up speed.

Usually if I dedicate most of my up speed to a file on a public tracker, the seeds will prefer sending data to me, rather than someone sharing back at 1KB/s. It's a survival of the fittest thing I think. And we're even even talking fast up speed here. My max is in the 55-65KB/s range.

**napho** · January 26th, 2009, 12:30 PM

Originally Posted by Xtripit

You should show up speed as well. Usually when I get speeds like that.. even on private trackers. It's when there is something else using most if not all my up speed.

I'm seeding 2 things to private trackers, but no takers at all. The upload speed on the public torrent is about 1.2K, 1% of my max speed.
Maybe the peers are to blame. A bunch of disgusting pervos from Japan, Korea, and Shaw Cable in Canada, getting busty Japanese porn. These kinds of people disgust me. Grrrrrrr

**mountain_rage** · January 26th, 2009, 02:39 PM

Originally Posted by napho

I'm seeding 2 things to private trackers, but no takers at all. The upload speed on the public torrent is about 1.2K, 1% of my max speed.
Maybe the peers are to blame. A bunch of disgusting pervos from Japan, Korea, and Shaw Cable in Canada, getting busty Japanese porn. These kinds of people disgust me. Grrrrrrr

Hey shut up you, nothing wrong with Japanese porn. And what the hell do you have against my Shaw cable connection from Canada?

**Mels_Smileys45** · January 26th, 2009, 03:33 PM

I got some invites to some private trackers and tried them out for kicks. Lots of boring BS that I could get on public trackers with no problem. The private trackers didn't even come close to maxing out my down speed 1.6MB/s but they sure soaked up my upstream .225MB/sec!!! Almost all private sites sucks for content when it comes to old and rare movies.

**Hath** · January 26th, 2009, 04:31 PM

Mels, what private sites are you? All the private trackers I use max out my 6/1 connection every time. I have nothing against private trackers, it's just that I have always had a better experience on private trackers.

**Mels_Smileys45** · January 26th, 2009, 05:08 PM

I tried that TTrev one and Demoniod. They both suck. The only site thats ever maxed out my connection is Fileporn. But don't worry, I don't want anything those sites have anyway. I find public trackers like the pirate bay more interesting and frankly, Ive never been that concerned with how fast I get my files as long as I find rare old or hard to find content. Seems most private sites only get geeked up over a stupid 0 day release of Mall Cop or some shit like that. Cinemageddon is the only site I care about.

**Xtripit** · January 26th, 2009, 05:52 PM

I have tried incredibly weird stuff because of bad routing as well. A guy on 100/100 uploaded a DVD for me and I didn't even get 100KB/s.. it just fluctuated between 15 and 80. He should have been able to max my downstream like 50 times.

**shawners** · January 26th, 2009, 06:08 PM

Originally Posted by Mels_Smileys45

I got some invites to some private trackers and tried them out for kicks. Lots of boring BS that I could get on public trackers with no problem. The private trackers didn't even come close to maxing out my down speed 1.6MB/s but they sure soaked up my upstream .225MB/sec!!! Almost all private sites sucks for content when it comes to old and rare movies.

Thats what TNT, TBS, WB, TV Land is for.. Demonoid dont count as a private tracker.

**w31n3r** · January 27th, 2009, 04:42 AM

at 98.9% completion, it's usual for public trackers to slow down. given the amount of hit and run scumbags, i don't blame them if they do it intentionally.

i'm not a big fan of private sites myself, most of what little i download these days comes from TPB and demonoid. RevTT is the only private site i keep since it's fast, has a good community, and serves up some nice 0 day porn. that and pureTNT, cheggit, fileporn, empornium, err, you get the picture :D