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You don't connect to the swarm using your ISP-supplied IP address. You can use a VPN service and tunnel all your traffic through that. You can use a seedbox,
by Nexxxeh 11y ago
You don't connect to the swarm using your ISP-supplied IP address.
You can use a VPN service and tunnel all your traffic through that.
You can use a seedbox, which is basically your torrent client running on a virtual machine or shared machine in a data centre. The P2P stuff doesn't come to or from your home IP. And it all happens at data centre speed.
If you use a private tracker, a seedbox is the way to go because you can leave it constantly seeding 24/7 at high speed so you build an amazing ratio.
You can pick up a seedbox with 700GB storage, 1Gb/s download, and 50Mb/s upload (both speed limited, but unlimited total) for less than a fancy coffee a week. Plex integration, OpenVPN connections included (so you can bypass any ISP-level filters), encrypted FTP etc.
- iyn 11y agoCan you recommend good seedbox providers?
- Plugawy 11y agohttp://Put.io http://Put.io is a one example of such service
- StavrosK 11y agoI have also tried put.io and it seemed good.
- Nexxxeh 11y agoI'm extremely happy with seedboxco.net, the SB-50 package more than meets my needs (of downloading Linux ISOs, obviously. Ahem). There are other higher end packages with stupidly fast upload, but SB-50 is vastly faster than my linespeed anyway. They do week trials for a couple of quid. There's a slight learning curve, but as you're on HN, I doubt you'll struggle with the basics. And you will pick up the cool extras. Do check out the VPN (iirc) tab, for creating OpenVPN accounts. The only app thingy I used was Plex, and it worked flawlessly. Ferral Hosting's seedbox hosting was fine, but it had a steeper learning curve and didn't give me anything compelling over SeedboxCo.
- baddox 11y agoI've used feralhosting.com for something like 6 years and can say only good things about their service. I haven't shopped around for price in a long time, but the pricing still seems reasonable to me.