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My Experience with Free SeedBoxes

More people are becoming more and more tech-savy, Internet content is increasing by the second into humongous proportions. Internet bandwidth from the days of dial-up modem (256 kbps) to ADSL (~2 Mbps) to Fiber (+10 Mbps) have increased the connect of people with Internet.

Today, torrents form a large part of the traffic flowing through the Internet allowing people share music, open source softwares and literally everything under the sun. Along with torrents come the task of seeding etiquettes. Simply being a leecher is not encouraged in the torrent sharing community as you are supposed to keep the torrent healthy by sharing your 'bit', no pun intended.

Keeping your desktop powered on all the time for seeding and leeching is not advisable for a variety of reasons including but not limited to
  1. Security: A seedbox will normally be out of the jurisdiction of your 'evil' state. Infact, you are not even installing a bittorrent client on your machine. So, no worries of lawsuit from anyone.
  2. Bandwidth: Seedboxes have tons of bandwidth with them compared to a modest home Internet connection of about 10 Mbps. This gives tremendous download speeds.
  3. Your home Internet is untouched: You are left with the full ISP bandwidth for your own browsing needs while the bittorrent traffic 'business' happens at a remote location without your intervention or need.
  4. FUP limit set by ISP: Many ISPs set-up Fair Usage Policy ( FUP) limits i.e. after a certain amount of traffic used, they throttle bandwidth considerably.
  5. Traffic shaping by ISP: Now-a-days, ISP have started to shape Internet traffic to discourage bittorrent usage among it's customers. They make bittorrent traffic difficult to pass-through.
I experimented a few nice free seedboxes over the years. The below post is exclusively about the free (unpaid) services. The paid term of conditions are entirely different and almost equal.
  1. FileStream.me: Used to give 1 Gb data store and one two simultaneous downloads, but since a few months they reduced this limit to 500 Mb which IMHO is very limited.
  2. Seedr.cc: Gives 2 Gb data store and one simultaneous download. This 2 Gb store can be increased to 7 Gb by doing certain brand promotion tasks like tweeting, blogging (yes, this blog is for that purpose 😎 ) and vlogging. 

Both of them requires users to  register with an email id and works either with torrent file, hashes or magnet links.

Filestream.me deletes a file after 3 days while seedr.cc deletes a file in 3 days in case the torrent is paused because of seeder unavailability. In case a torrent is paused, the used will need to unpause it manually.

Seedr.cc was particularly interesting because now-a-days more than simultaneous downloads the limiting factor is file size. Movies and series episodes are becoming larger with higher resolutions. It's been a week since I started using seedr.cc and I'm loving it. More update will soon follow..
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