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  • fohat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+44Sounds interesting. I suppose if you only had a laptop and travelled alot or didn't always have access to a high speed connection, this would be a cool service. But you still have to download the file at some point, so who's to say you wouldn't have gotten a better speed by just using the torrent file yourself? Maybe if you had a really crappy upload and didn't want to leach. Speaking of leaching, I wonder if they let you set a share ratio.

    Also I wouldn't plan on downloading any copyrighted material through a service like this, it just puts logs an yet another server of what you're downloading.
  • flosoft, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Well, I think it is mainly for the people who are behind a firewall, or in Universities who's traffic is blocked on certain ports. For example: John is at the university and loves torrents. But he can't use them as his university blocks all traffic on all ports except port 80.

    Well in that case, he is happy that the Server downloads his torrents, and he can then download them via Port 80 to his pc.
    • Phaedruss, on 10/12/2007, -6/+5Ouch, so they can't use ftp, any chat program, or play any online games? ;)'

      I would imagine this is a better solution for someone who is behind a bandwidth shaper that can identify specific packets. We had this at my university, where the shaper could be used to block ports, as well as having the ability to examine packet type and alot bandwidth according to that... in the case of bittorrent, no bandwidth.
    • eean, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Seems like I read that Azureus is working on encrypted links to foil packet shapers.
    • Dolomite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Tell John to run a portscan. There is bound to be other open ports. It sounds silly they would only allow traffic on port 80.
    • Grimboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Port 443 is usually open for https, if I need to get through one of them I tunnel whatever I want though ssh 443, simple as.
  • unitedkronos, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I wouldn't trust a service like this, because like fohat pointed out, it's logging what you're downloading. A service that I would like to see though is having torrents being seeding from a specialist server, so for example if you were an artist sharing out a copyright free album, there would be guranteed at least one seed running 24/7 for people to download.
    • flosoft, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Well, you can use it for that no? I mean, their service is running 24/7, and as it is a normal torrent client, you are able to use it as Seeder.
    • unitedkronos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2flosoft - I wouldn't think they would seed once it's downloaded for bandwidth purposes, what I'm talking about is a service that can provide a high speed 24/7 node for a torrent so that if someone wants to download it but there's nobody online with it, there would be at least one seed that would work.
    • flosoft, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0unitedkronos: Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't they write on their homepage that seeding isn't a problem?
    • unitedkronos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm asking for a seed specialist service, not one that downloads a torrent and then probobly seeds up your monthly bandwidth quicker then it takes for a Pirate Bay server to resurface. And by the looks of it the digg effect's in work too.
    • ahmerhussain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That's not much of a problem if what you are doing is legal.
    • xerox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1its called web seeding. google it.
    • rahmza, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0From the website front page.
      "Another option is to simply seed your torrents from our Servers. So your torrent will not disappear from the surface and you'll have atleast a share ratio of 100%"

      Furthermore, if you do a whois lookup, this is based in Germany, so though it is trackable, some may find comfort in the fact that it is not based in the US.
  • Sutto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8You could install Torrentflux (http://www.torrentflux.com/) on a server where the admins don't mind.
    Best of all its free... if you already have a server :D.
    I've used it before and on some Dedicated Server's its awesome to see download speeds of like 2MB/s and uploads of 4MB/s.
    • Sutto, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Err, Didn't see Cosmosis' reply.
    • pkulak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Will that do automatic directory scanning? I.e., automatically pick up torrent files from a certain directory?
  • brunner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Why? Shell services like silenceisdefeat.org offer curses-based bittorrent clients that you an use on their 100Mbps full duplex connection. It sure beats a web-interface.
    • Godspeed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2privacy? are you kidding me there is no more privacy in the internet any more they maynot be seeing every thing you do at this particular moment but they keep logs if anybody ever needs dirt on you thats when they start looking through the logs

      "so back in 2004 mr. mac downloaded windows from a torrent from xxx.xxx.xxx ip address " just an example
      you gotta be careful theese days on the internet almost any thing can have a chnce to come back and bite you in the ass
    • squiffyboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Quick! Get my tinfoil hat!
  • panique, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Great way for the RIAA/MPAA to find out what you've been downloading. If they don't actually own the damn site, they can simply subpoena the records.
    • MarkByers, on 10/12/2007, -13/+6Why should the RIAA care what I download? Can't I have some privacy?
    • xerox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7no, no you can't have privacy.
  • absoluteczech, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3its an interesting idea, but like you make it too easy for riaa/mpaa to catch people
  • spaztech, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12I hope their service is faster than their homepage load time.
  • DarkSenay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Use torrentflux, there is a tutorial that poorboys tech did a while back. http://www.poorboys.tv/episodes/poorboys.tech.e01-xvid.avi
  • ntufar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I use Mldonkey [http://mldonkey.org/]
    Runs as daemon in my Ubuntu. Has web and telnet interface. Connects to both bittoret and eDonkey
  • slithy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I have been running torrentflux for a couple of weeks and it's an awesome way to allow multiple people to use torrents on one machine.

    Solves the problem of having to port forward the same ports to multiple machines (which can't be done) and would be what would happen if you had > 1 person behind firewall/NAT trying to use the same bittorent client.
  • seanieb64, on 10/12/2007, -11/+3this seems to good to be true....
  • zombieball, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12 Not sure about all you guys but I would be more worried about how much bandwidth the people running this service actually have. The story has 191 diggs lately, so lets assume that equates to approx 500 new unique visitors on the ttorent website, and already I am seeing it having problems loading, etc. and they expect me to let them download my torrents for me?
    Why do I get the strong feeling this is just some kid with torrentflux running on his box in his basement. Nice idea and all though.
    • ericnmu, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2I believe you provide your own server.
    • lykathea, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"download them via HTTP directly from *our* Server."
  • theblooms, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Has anyone thought that if they can't handle getting dugg, how the hell can they handle some decent torrent activity?
    Thanks, but no thanks. utorrent works for me.
    • ericnmu, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2Once again, they dont download the torrents for you.
      Run their script on YOUR server.
    • stylewarz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2The torrent program runs on different servers than the website. The website is hosted on a cheap reseller account. We are very sorry about that!
  • umberloid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Every web host must love this one... getting shut down because your customers are downloading torrents using your server. Not to mention the bandwidth issues.
  • teklord, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4That is a neat idea but I think fohat is right you would most likely get better speeds downing from your own PC at home in the end, I think if you want fast downloads everyone should use newsgroups, I use newshosting.com as my provider and the speed is only limited by how fast my pipe is from comcast, I download files using NZBs (usenet form of a torrent) at around 1MB/sec constant! I think dropping torrents and using the usenet and NZBs is a sure fire way that you will never have to wait days to get a file you want
    • theblooms, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2@teklord
      Keep that on the DL! First rule of usenet, you don't talk about usenet.
    • rincebrain, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1@theblooms
      Modding you both down because I agree with your reply.
    • magic6435, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3@theblooms
      Amen to that, ive enjoyed 8mb downloads 100% of the time with no drops for years now and i don't want a hole bunch of other mange bastards hoping on the band waggon
    • Clbck, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2"Amen to that, ive enjoyed 8mb downloads 100% of the time with no drops for years now and i don't want a hole bunch of other mange bastards hoping on the band waggon"

      Good job. Advertise your 8mb downloads to try to get people to stay away.
    • izzybomb, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Considering it costs money per month will probably deter people from using it so i wouldnt worry about that.
  • nicklinus, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2if you are gonna go throught that much trouble you might as well use newsgrops. they are a lot simplair then that. here is a guide http://www.slyck.com/ng.php?page=1 I use newshosting as my NSP http://www.newshosting.com
    • ericnmu, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2Pair that together with a good program, www.newsleecher.com and a good indexing site: www.newzbin.com or www.binage.com (while newzbin is limiting signups).
  • poipoipoi, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11in the words of Admiral Akbar: "It's a TRAP!"

    Seriously, who's to say the owners of this don't sell the info to the RIAA/MPAA/etc for a few hundred thousand dollars next week/month/year? (Wouldn't you?)
    • Xoligy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7and that's different from RIAA connecting to a usual bittorrent downloader because?
    • OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Admiral Akbar would know.
    • poipoipoi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2because this seems to provide even more information than a simpe BT tracker connection? i dunno, i ain't used it and never will.
  • Xoligy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Wow what a useless idea. You then need to download it from the server. Not to mention the server costs and high bandwitdh usage.
    • darkinferno9908, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3It's much faster to download from the server than it is to download from torrents though. THAT's the point of this idea.
    • DWatch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1How do you figure its much faster to download from their server then torrents?? I routinely max out my download speed on torrents. The torrents that don't reach my max download speed are limited by the uploading seeder, I am still at their mercy as far as their upload speeds.

      This seems like it would only be useful if you could not have a high speed connection 24/7, and need to travel or constantly move your laptop's location (school/work/home/back to school/etc..). I think it has its uses, but it would be a waste of time for me to use.
  • Progz, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1site doesn't work anymore?
  • spike57, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3The page design IT BURNS!!! IT BURNS!!!
  • AndyVenus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Sounds like a cool idea. I want to find out more but the site has gone down.
  • TristanTee, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1this is dumb, having a fast connection wont make you download any faster if the seeders are slow or unconnectable, you can simply get your max speeds from a good private 0day tracker for FREE!
    • sp00nz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6You're so |337 with your zero day trackers. I wish I was you.
  • tactless, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I use torrentflux and I'm very happy with it. The only point of dissatisfaction is that it doesn't look very good, and doesn't make use of AJAX in some places where it would be really helpful. I wouldn't PAY for those features... but I'd like to see some screenies :)
  • Peter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This sounds vaguely familiar: http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=460901&hl=

    I know it's probably just a chance, but dang.
  • gibbo2006, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1My down load speed on the subway (without cruches) is 12 feet per second - not as quick as this issue - hey lads and lassies!?
    Regards - A Faithful honest and true old timer
  • ahmerhussain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Wouldn't this make your bandwith bill go way up?
  • stylewarz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Try https://ttorrent.net It's extremely slow but it still works!!
  • stylewarz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3guys, we just forwarded the ttorrent.net domain to flosoft.ath.cx. Hope this will work. So just try flosoft.ath.cx for the next couple of hours!! And please notice that the download system is NOT on the same server as the ttorrent.net site so it is NOT affected by the downtime! Cheers, Jonathan (ttorrent.net team)
    • GaryKing, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It's dead.
    • teh_toaster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2ath.cx DDNS domains seem to go down a lot. That is, every one that I've tried did...
    • stylewarz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Okay, we now redirected the ttorrent.net domain to derjonathan.gmxhome.de and it seems to work well. :)
  • flameboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I made a program like this myself using perl and a few shell scripts. Wuddya think? http://firepacket.net/pictures/capture2.jpg
    • Peter, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I think you should get involved with TorrentFlux.
    • flameboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thanks :-) but i think torrentflux is probably a little more robust. My site was just a frontend for ctorrent (command line c-based torrent app)
  • zacharychaos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i want to seed something as fast as possible for a good ratio. would this help me do that?
    • stylewarz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1With ttorrent you can also use ttorrent.net as a "super seeder" which means that you only upload and don't download, if it's that what you mean. That's no problem at all. ;) Just check back when the site is up again.
  • antipower187, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2damn, I had this idea about 6 months. I didn't know how to get the ball rolling on the idea though.
  • Soccer4786, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I got torrentflux and set it up using the "nub guide" but it seems to have bugged a bit.
  • Peter, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2So it turns out they are using TorrentFlux. It's a good setup they have, I'm just not so sure about the prices. Seems a bit much. Plus it's on a reseller hosting account. If they can make it work well, more power to them.

    http://www.torrentflux.com/forum/index.php/topic,1692.0.html
    • stylewarz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Peter, TorrentFlux is not running on the same server as the website. It's running on dedicated servers.
      Only the website is running on a reseller account.
  • iam1e3t, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3anybody hear of torrentflux?
  • henkk78, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5In South Africa we pay for uploads as well as downloads (at about 2 US cents per MB). Torrents normally aren't an option. This could make the difference.
  • ttorrentnetfake, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1this is fake. the site is hosted at gmx.de and has changed provider 3 times already. there's no login page.. common.
    I suspect this guy: derjonathan.uboot.com/
    • stylewarz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1As I wrote in some recent comment: We moved the site 3 times because our reseller account which the site is hosted on wasn't able to cope with the enormous amount of dig traffic. That's why ttorrent.net is currently hosted on gmx.de. We will change it back to the original server once traffic decreases.
      - Jonathan (ttorrent.net)
    • ttorrentnetfake, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1You guyz are more than suspicious.

      On one hand you promise a service that eats up tons and tons of bandswidth and on the other hand your webpage can't even handle a digg effect and is hosted by a resseller account.

      The GMX account is not supposed to be used for business. The "impressum" is missing though you are hosted in Germany. There's no corporate information or anything like that, which means this is probably a taxfree/illegal activity. And the stuff being hosted in Germany where EUCD a DMCA on steroid has just been voted makes is quite arguable about the legallity of hosting, even temporarily, files downloaded by p2p. There's not even a pseudo legal warning that tells people please do not use this service for anything illegal.

      You can't have a decent HTTPS certificate also. And paypal is the "only" available option for payment.

      How practical to run away with the money.

      And if this is not a "con", you still lack credibility, because all the following stuff mentioned should have NEVER happened if you were serious. Fact is, you're not trustworthy.
    • DWatch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well, even if they are not trying to 'con' people out of their money, and are genuine about providing a service to paying customers, they obviously have a lot to learn about customer service. If they have to move their web site to three different hosts to handle the digg effect, I can only imagine how badly the actual servers will be managed. It seems like these guys are very inexperienced, or lack funding... probably both.

      I also doubt they will be able to stand up to any serious legal threats, such as cease and desist orders from copyright holders, demands from industry associations, request for logs by government agencies, etc. Are the owners of the service going to go to battle for you, or fold under a little pressure?
  • Marshy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2hmmm...great way to waste my servers finite bandwith...
  • oxygenuk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2simply awesome
  • Sandlapper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Someone have a good link to help a complete noob understand how to install torrentflux?
  • residual, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Why are people posting these? It's a scam get over it.
    • stylewarz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1nope. It's surely not a scam.
    • DWatch, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Scam or not, its obviously spam posted by the owners of the site trying to drive traffic. Reported as such.
  • riot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1get three or four friends together and get a dedicated host.
    $15.00 a month each

    this site will get shut down in no time.
    I say three weeks.
  • riot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://www.completelydedicated.com/dedicated.php
    just googled them now never used them 59 a month
  • riot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1or http://www.serverpronto.com/
    29.99 a month ....
    again not adversting just googed
    cheap dediacted servers
  • gibbo2006, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0As my comment - 17 Jul 2006 - bought on a massive responce in respect of this this issue I wish to thank thank and advise those considering an upload speed in excess of 12 ft per second as most dangerous without any physical support - take care
  • schwarzesloch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0It´s a scam. Check out:
    http://pickledbushman.com/index.php/2006/07/05/warren_smith_up_to_no_good_again_http_ww
    Warren Smith from South Africa seems to be behind it.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slimothy
  • pidz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0oh cmon...
    its just a german guy renting a strato box which comes with unlimited traffic,
    http://www.strato.de/server/highend/index.html
    thinking about how to make the most money out of it, and gets the idea of running a webhosting service (same ip, reverse lookup), http://www.flosoft.biz/site2/ and throw a torrentflux service out to the public...
    i also thougt about doing so, as i also own one of these funky german unltd. traffic servers, but it just messes up the box to let more than 10 users or so download, so getting some friends on the boat to pay for it just makes it easier, more reliable, and last but not least... way more secure
  • Zanza, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this would be really awsome, but there is a monthly fee for it, and isn't the point of bittorrent to get what you want for free?
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