Guest peterjones September 19, 2011 Share September 19, 2011 is it worth it to go to the 1Gbit seedboxes vs 100Mbps or is it overkill? Any info would be greatly appreciated, Ive never procured a seedbox, but I plan on it very soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest beezy102 September 19, 2011 Share September 19, 2011 Bittorrent, by nature, prefers faster peers. So, if you plan on seeding on sites like SCC, BitmeTV and TL, 1gbit would be the way to go. Also, TL and SCC are filled with OVH boxes, so, if you get one of that, internal transfer between OVH takes place which is damn fast and hence you end up seeding more. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest peterjones September 19, 2011 Share September 19, 2011 sorry OVH? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest beezy102 September 19, 2011 Share September 19, 2011 ww.ovh.co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest peterjones September 19, 2011 Share September 19, 2011 thank you very much :) ovh doesnt seem to have all that competitive pricing... nor too many 1gbit boxes (perhaps im not looking hard enough) will i really notice a big difference using a OVH to seed here or if i got another 1Gbit box elsewhere in euro to seed? Sorry for all the n00besque questions just new to the seedbox gAME Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest beezy102 September 19, 2011 Share September 19, 2011 Actually no, not much of a difference. Maybe 500-800 kb/s but that gets compensated. Also, OVH's Kimsufi range has a competitive pricing but I wouldn't advise you to take that as the hardware used is cheap and you end up with a bad dedi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest peterjones September 19, 2011 Share September 19, 2011 what seedboxes do you use if you dont mind me askin? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest beezy102 September 19, 2011 Share September 19, 2011 I kinda don't have the money right now. But, of all the ones I used, I've really liked XirviK, there servers have many features. I've also heard that Feral Hosting is good. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest peterjones September 19, 2011 Share September 19, 2011 thanks again and have a great day ohh and i see USA / Euro which would be better? and yet another thing im starting to see 10Gbit boxes... thats just over kill right? hard drives are not gonna be able to write that speed but i guess its for upload.. but 10Gbit over kill or worth the extra $5 from Seedunlimited Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest acidmonk September 23, 2011 Share September 23, 2011 most seedboxes are euro, best to go with a dutch located box 10GBiit is overkill unless they have 0 raided Sata 3 SSD hard drives, which is doubtful. Even then you will max out at 50 mbs probably. I would go with Xivirk or Evoboxes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ScroogeMcDuck September 24, 2011 Share September 24, 2011 Just so you know, OVH is NOT a seedbox provider. They provide hosting/dedicated servers. There are a few seedbox provider reselling OVH servers as seedboxes, but there's plenty of others. There's a big difference between seedbox providers and companies like OVH in means of pricing and options. Whether you take a seedbox in the US or EU highly depends on where you live. If you live in the US and your seedbox is in the EU, your FTP speeds will most likely suck (and vice versa). I have a dedicated server from OVH and it's 1Gbit as a seedbox. I used to have 100Mbit and yes it did become a bottleneck at some point, but I rarely pass the 12MB/s on this server. So do you need 1Gbit? Guess that depends on how dedicated you are to torrenting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest netjuba October 8, 2011 Share October 8, 2011 1g will have upto 30 to 35mbps max which is what i get and down will go up to 40 this is unshared net i test it on ftp upload not seeds and as far for shareing in localnetwork these companys have firberlink connected each others so leaseweb to ovh will have same speed like ovh to ovh transfer depends on hd speed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest boogie123 December 1, 2011 Share December 1, 2011 Hey. Seedbox noob here :P What about uploading to file sharing site? Say, I download a torrent using a seebox provided by a SB provider. How will I go about uploading? I have sucky internet connection at home soo... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Electric December 7, 2011 Share December 7, 2011 Hey. Seedbox noob here :P What about uploading to file sharing site? Say, I download a torrent using a seebox provided by a SB provider. How will I go about uploading? I have sucky internet connection at home soo... By file sharing site do you mean DDL? A seedbox is essentially a torrent client e.g. uTorrent that you access via a browser so the interface is slightly different but it's near enough uTorrent. A dedicated server is like leasing a whole c drive complete with operating system that you can do what you want with browse, torrent, save your files etc. The whole reason people have seedboxes is because they are in places with better internet than they have access to at home and/or they help circumvent ISP restrictions e.g throttles. So you pay your money to a company who hires you out a portion of a hard drive, or a whole hard drive on machine and it's got much better connectivity than your home connection e.g. the dedi I just bought has 90Mbps downstream and 40Mbps upstream. I don't get that sort of speed at home. So you download and seed your torrents like you would at home, only better because of the better speeds (so boosting your ratio) then you use an FTP client to bring the downloads back to your home connection at whatever speed you usually suffer c/o your ISP and then you watch them, burn it to disk, archive it, whatever, the torrent tracker interaction is done on the seedbox. If you just grab warez and music a small seedbox (portion of hard drive) would suit you, if you want full size blu-ray and DVD-R boxsets then you need to be looking at a larger hard drive. As a price guide I pay €30/month for a 1TB seedbox and I regularly max 10Mbps up and down if the torrent swarms are busy. Providing I join the swarm early on (most leechers with under 30% completion) I have no problem with achieving a ratio of 3 or more on the download. You can find 200Gb size seedboxes for less than €10 a month. Prices vary depending on how much space you want, how fast the connection is, the spec of the machine doing the torrenting and how long a commitment you make to the seedbox provider - a one month lease vs. annual etc. Hope that helps you get your head around it a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest VictorMiraglia January 8, 2012 Share January 8, 2012 About OVH Dedicated servers they aren't good as it seems.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest clwnshoes January 12, 2012 Share January 12, 2012 As a price guide I pay €30/month for a 1TB seedbox and I regularly max 10Mbps up and down if the torrent swarms are busy. Providing I join the swarm early on (most leechers with under 30% completion) I have no problem with achieving a ratio of 3 or more on the download. Are you able to share which provider you use for the 1TB box @ 30/month? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest plumpjack January 23, 2012 Share January 23, 2012 I'd be interested in this as well... I'm paying $50/month at seedbox.me so if I can save some money I'd be most interested! Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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