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Seedbox Torrent Seeding 101


You might think that the seedbox comes from a magical universe where you don’t need to load your computer chips or bandwidth in order to seed torrents. I hate to break it to you: that’s pretty far from the actual case. In fact, there are a few myths related to seeboxes that need debunking before we go into how you can use a seed box to your advantage.

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Note: this is not what an actual seedbox looks like.

Therefore, you should keep in mind the following:

  • A seedbox will charge your bandwidth. I’m sorry, but tell your friend that tricked you with this that he can’t cheat the system forever. Yes, a seedbox can prevent bandwidth clogging, but that would be completely impractical. You would have to set the speed of your download so low that the whole point of a free seedbox becomes irrelevant.
  • A seedbox will take up your resources. Albeit, not as bad as actually keeping uTorrent open at all times. It will still pack a mean punch to your processor every time you want to download a torrent from it. Sorry.
  • A seedbox will let you download things anonymously. This is the main advantage of the seedboxes. You get to download something on the remote computer. As far as the internet goes, you’ve never downloaded it.

What Is Torrent Seeding?

Torrent seeding is a big part of downloading and uploading torrents. In its basic definition, torrent seeding implies providing bits of the torrent files to one or more users that are downloading the same torrent from the same tracker. You may think of torrent seeding as buying a pack of fruit from one place and selling it in another. Except both you and the one who buys the fruit get to keep the fruit. Pretty ingenious, yes?

If this is the case, then you, my humble fruit-seller, are the torrent’s seeder. Of course, you may not be the only seeder. Remember that a torrent is made up of bits and pieces of data downloaded from several places over the internet. Like a jigsaw puzzle: when it’s unscrambled it doesn’t mean anything. However, when you put all the pieces together, it’s your favorite new movie 2016.

Alternatively, leechers are those that drain from that torrent. If there are more seeders than leechers, you should be able to download the torrent without any speed issues. If, however, the situation is reversed and there are more leechers than seeders, then download speeds may not be at all optimal. In such cases, the tracker resorts to downloading pieces of the torrent at a time split between all who are trying to download the data.

How does a seedbox come into play? We’ll see in a moment!

You should also know what a snatcher is. Snatching a torrent means downloading it without seeding anything neither during nor after it’s been downloaded. Snatchers are like the pirates of the privateer world: they profit off of not-always-clean merchandise, yet are never willing to share themselves.

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What Is a Seedbox?

A seedbox is a remote server computer with a humongous internet speed. There are some free seedbox offers online, but keep in mind that those are far from the best seedbox offers. We suggest opting for a seedbox free trial to see what paying for something like this could give you. Alternatively, cheap seedbox offers are everywhere and do a more than decent job of securing your torrents.

Here are the advantages of a seed box:

  • You can download anonymously. As we’ve mentioned, nobody will know that you’ve watched the worst movie of 2015. It will be your little secret.
  • You don’t clog your hard disk space. As your torrents will be downloaded on a faraway server in a faraway land, your disk will only carry what you need it to carry.
  • You will be a permanent seeder. If you use a private torrent network, a seedbox will allow you to rise to the top of the seeder No more fear of getting kicked out!
  • You can host torrents. Have something that you would like to share with your friends? Provided there’s no copyright infringement going on, you can use the seed box to upload torrents.

How to Use a Seedbox?

Using a seed box is really easy, as many seedbox reviews mention. All you need to do is find a service that best suits your torrent needs and apply for it. Once you do that, you will be able to use your browser to command the remote computer on what to download. Once the file has been downloaded, you can take it directly from the server by accessing the company’s specific software.

Also, some of the best seedbox services also give you the option of opening the file directly from their computers. This is really convenient, especially if you want to watch a movie.

Seedbox hosting is also an option, but you will need to have a second computer that’s connected to a different internet provider so that you don’t use up your main connection.

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Conclusion

Seedboxes are a great way to download and upload torrents, providing a download/upload ratio of 1/1. That means that you won’t have to worry about internet speed anymore. Let us know in the comments which seedbox you’re using and if it’s any good!

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