Heading Back to the Dorm? Here’s how to Keep Torrenting
August 19, 08 by sharky 863 viewsFor students, September can be a very stressful time of year - saying goodbye to loved-ones, readjusting to an academic schedule, and the loss of carefree BitTorrent downloading due to an iron-fisted university ISP. While we can’t help you with the first two - at least you’ll be able to keep the torrents rolling into your dorm room by implementing a few of these tips.
Many universities are getting wise to the increasing BitTorrent/P2P traffic that’s clogging up their lines, not to mention the headaches of having to deal with "Copyright Infringement / DMCA" notices to pass along to students. More and more are now using outsourced unfriendly ISP’s that outright ban BitTorrent/P2P traffic, and even FTP access is beginning to join the banlist. If you picked up some nice private trackers over the summer, you’ll have a difficult time keeping active accounts when you can’t download (or seed) torrents.
Here’s how to keep it all in sync:
We probably don’t have to tell you that maintaining a good sharing ratio on your private trackers is crucial to keeping the account. Period. However, no tracker is alike - we’d like to break this down a little further and delve into the seeding secrets behind individual trackers.
As an example, new users to What.cd and Waffles will wonder how it can ever be possible to make it to ‘Power User’, when the torrents just don’t seem to seed. TorrentLeech and RevTT users may find it extremely easy to buffer their accounts in no time at all at these 0day trackers. So instead of seeing "This account has been disabled", we’d rather you be privy to a great buffer.
- This denotes a new entry to the list.
Get in while you can - there’s a 3,500 member limit. LoveTheScene presently lists 205 members and 183 torrents (not too bad for just one day). Uploaders are jam-packing the site with as many torrents as possible - there’s a new one every couple of minutes. LTS is currently set to freeleech for the next week or so; now is the time to build a good ratio.