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uTFilterManager, Simplify RSS Filters in uTorrent
Use uTBackup to Save and Restore uTorrent Settings
August 10, 2009 by sharky
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New IPFilter Updater For BitTorrent Client Blocklists
July 30, 2009 by sharky
One of the biggest problems with using an IPFilter to block bad IPs in a BitTorent client or other P2P software is remembering to update it. An IPFilter is only as good as the provider, and how often the list is updated by both you and the supplier of the list. Blocklists & ipfilter.dat files don’t update themselves automatically - but here’s a cool new utility that now makes it possible with just one mouse-click! Introducing IPFilter Updater - a tiny script that you can use to update a blocklist for virtually any torrent client.
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The 10 Best Ways to Get Banned From a Private Tracker
July 10, 2009 by sharky
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Test Your ISP for Traffic Shaping with ShaperProbe
May 07, 2009 by sharky
There are good ISPs and then there are bad ISPs. A good ISP will allow you to virtually max out your Internet connection speed for any online activity including P2P/BitTorrent transfers. It’s no secret that bad ISPs - such as Bell Canada & its wholesale partners, are known to limit transfer rates to as little as 30 KB/s from 4PM - 2AM, essentially crippling many Internet apps for up to 10 hours each day. You pay top dollars to your provider for Internet access, yet can’t even use it to 10% capacity during the time when you need it the most - when you’re actually sitting in front of the PC. These practices are commonly considered to be net neutrality violations by ISPs.
The solution? Switch providers. But how do you know for certain that your ISP is meddling with your torrent transfers? Aside from the obvious clue that download speeds come to a crashing halt during peak-times, or seeding is all but impossible - there’s a clever new way to test your ISP for throttling & rate-limiting with the DiffProbe ShaperProbe utility.
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How To Maximize TorrentFlux Download Speeds Using FlashGet And FlashGot
April 19, 2009 by sharky
If you’re a TorrentFlux seedbox user, you probably already know there aren’t too many options for downloading your completed torrent files back to a home PC through a browser. Natively in TFlux, files need to be downloaded one-by-one with the option to download full folders - also done one at a time. However, if your seedbox host offers lower-than-average transfer speeds (most do), then the workaround is to download multiple files simultaneously to maximize bandwidth. When used in unison, both FlashGet and FlashGot are very TorrentFlux-friendly; entire directory contents can be scanned & imported (and downloaded) without all the excess junk - as long as the FlashGot filter is applied correctly.
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The All-new Torrents Open Registrations Checker
April 04, 2009 by sharky
Looking for a great “live” solution to accurately assist in finding private trackers that are open for signups? After months of heavy development, Team Roots has finally launched a new, speedier (and vastly improved) version of TORC - the Torrents Open Registrations Checker v1.26. TORC has it all - a great list of current trackers; filtering options; tracker icons; detailed view; and, of course - automatic timed & repeat checking of selected private trackers to see if they’re open for direct signups.
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uTorrent: How To Reseed TV Season Torrents Using Previously Downloaded Episodes
March 17, 2009 by sharky
Maintaining a good ratio at BitMeTV can be arduous, especially for those who don’t own a seedbox. Even TVTorrents.com is tricky for new users, since there’s a minimum 1:1 ratio on the site, making it rather difficult to get started. Here’s how to seed (reseed) downloaded individual TV episodes to season packs, even if you’ve changed the paths and/or names of the files.
This tip is explained in two segments, depending on whether the previously downloaded TV episodes are the same name & location, or not. We explain how this works from torrents from public trackers; or if you only have a few episodes of a particular season, in which you’ll become a partial seeder.
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Music Torrents Not Seeding Properly? Blame iTunes
March 14, 2009 by sharky
iTunes just isn’t torrent-friendly. Importing or playing back your music files directly from a seeding torrent into a media player that alters ID3 tags or metadata can cause them to stop seeding. If otherwise healthy torrents are now getting stuck anywhere from 91-99% (or worse, at 0%), prompting you to redownload the files - most likely the culprit is iTunes. Even if you didn’t manually change the properties or tags on an MP3 file, iTunes may happen to be set up to do this automatically, thus altering the files and causing tracker seeding errors.
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12 Clues (and Solutions) To Why Your Torrents Are Slow
February 23, 2009 by sharky
Find yourself saying, "Help me! Why are my torrents so slow?" - then you’re not alone. Millions of torrenters across the globe are asking the same thing. Unfortunately, the solution isn’t just some extraordinary quick fix or spurious torrent accelerator program - you’ll actually have to put a little effort into figuring out the cause of those deathly-slow downloads. Here’s a few tips to put you on the right track to faster torrents…
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Universal - A New Torrent Toolbar For Private Trackers
February 21, 2009 by sharky
Under normal circumstances, we wouldn’t go out of our way to promote any toolbar. 99% of them are pure unadulterated junk. However, we’ve found a brand-new toolbar that supports private trackers, without any of the excess baggage. And by the looks of it, the developer obviously put some serious thought into which trackers should be added to the list.
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uRemote - A Browserless Remote GUI for uTorrent
January 22, 2009 by sharky
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Auto-UnRAR Your Torrents in uTorrent The Easy Way
January 17, 2009 by sharky
Scene-release torrents getting you down? Looking for a simple solution to tackle all those troublesome archived RAR files in µTorrent? AutoExtractor takes all of the hard work out of having to manually unpack multiple RAR files. Finished torrents are automatically extracted - by default to the same path - and the original RAR files are left intact, so that the torrent happily continues to seed as though nothing happened. What could be more clever?
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How To Switch What.CD Theme To Look Like OiNK.CD
January 05, 2009 by sharky
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Fight Throttling: Auto-Restart uTorrent With Random Ports
December 13, 2008 by sharky
A few readers have contacted us in regards to being throttled (or more specifically; sandvined) by their ISPs. As described in these instances, seeding is fine initially but then trickles down to under 10 KB/s. One solution that works well is a simple restart of µTorrent (with a random port number), which seems to temporarily unblock the connections. That is, until the sandvine hardware figures out the established new port number, and seeding winds down to a crawl once again. However, we can’t always be sitting in front of the computer, constantly monitoring the status of µTorrent’s upload speeds - this just isn’t practical. A better solution involves automated stopping & restarting of uTorrent.exe on a pre-determined schedule, each time with a randomized port.
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Firefox Scripts That Integrate Torrent Searching on IMDb
December 11, 2008 by sharky
There are two tools that the average movie pirate regularly uses in his/her arsenal - IMDb.com, and torrent sites. You know what we’re talking about: cross-referencing actors, directors and films with ease at the user-friendly Internet Movie Database, and then head on over to Mininova, IsoHunt or ThePirateBay to seek out the flicks. Well, here are a few Greasemonkey userscripts for Firefox that facilitate the process so much easier, by integrating torrent searching onto a displayed movie title page on IMDb. No longer do users need to switch between tabs, type in or copy/paste titles into the search bar at various public torrent indexers - simply click and go!
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6 Things You Can Do To Test Your ISP for BitTorrent Throttling
December 04, 2008 by sharky
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Is Your BitTorrent Throttled? Try uTorrent 1.9
December 02, 2008 by sharky
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uTorrent: Move All Your Downloaded Files & Keep Seeding
November 02, 2008 by sharky
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Seed The Same Files To Multiple Trackers in uTorrent
October 24, 2008 by sharky
We’ve already covered a similar topic on ‘Preseeding‘, whereby you can seed previously downloaded files to another tracker, without taking a hit on your download ratio. But if you want to seed the exact same files to multiple trackers simultaneously in µTorrent, it gets a little more tricky. No, you can’t just add multiple private trackers (URLs) to the announce list of a torrent - this would surely qualify you for a big fat ban on most trackers. Nor do you need to copy the seeded folder and/or files to another location, and then seed it to a different tracker from a secondary location - it can all be done from one folder.
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