How Good Is The Slingshot All You Can Eat Plan??

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#70615 27-Oct-2010 16:33

I Get a 12Mb/0.8mb (D/U) Speed On Orcon I am 2Km Away From The Exchange I Get All My Speeds From The Exchange
Im in Auckland And I Do ALOT ALOT ALOT OF TORRENT DOWNLOADING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Im Just Wondering If Its Good As I Am A Big Seeder For the Eztv Torrents

Any Good Speeds For Torrents
If Not I Might Just Stay on Orcon

Ps.I Am On A Orcon's Platinum Plan With A 330Gb Cap
Its Adsl2+

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#396370 27-Oct-2010 16:56

I don;t think it would suit you. Torrents although cached by Slingshot are generally slowed or messed with by Slingshots prioritization process.

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#396373 27-Oct-2010 17:04

hellonearthisman: I don;t think it would suit you. Torrents although cached by Slingshot are generally slowed or messed with by Slingshots prioritization process.

Is There Any Way To By-Pass That By Using A Proxy To Hide The Tracker?

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#396402 27-Oct-2010 17:35

proxy alone doesnt work, as it seems that slingshot are closing connections based on content like user agent and looking like a tracker update.

socks to ssl tunnel gets tracker updates working, so the sites dont accuse you of cheating, but peer connections are still closed all the time and throttled to hell.

IMO, slingshot is a stay away for anything except using trademe and email type internet user.

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#396424 27-Oct-2010 18:19

richms: proxy alone doesnt work, as it seems that slingshot are closing connections based on content like user agent and looking like a tracker update.

socks to ssl tunnel gets tracker updates working, so the sites dont accuse you of cheating, but peer connections are still closed all the time and throttled to hell.

IMO, slingshot is a stay away for anything except using trademe and email type internet user.

Ya ok Than im just going to stay on orcon

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#396984 28-Oct-2010 19:33

mikenzb: I Get a 12Mb/0.8mb (D/U) Speed On Orcon I am 2Km Away From The Exchange I Get All My Speeds From The Exchange
Im in Auckland And I Do ALOT ALOT ALOT OF TORRENT DOWNLOADING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Im Just Wondering If Its Good As I Am A Big Seeder For the Eztv Torrents

Any Good Speeds For Torrents
If Not I Might Just Stay on Orcon

Ps.I Am On A Orcon's Platinum Plan With A 330Gb Cap
Its Adsl2+

If you want to persist with this possibly grey area behavior it's way more cost effective to rent server hosting ie: a seedbox, hosted in the US or Europe.

Here's a description of the concept, I'll leave researching providers up to you
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seedbox

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#397046 28-Oct-2010 21:45

Agreed, seedbox and then FTP down in freeleech on slingshot gives the best ability to get data thru at lowest cost, but not all seedboxes will allow public trackers.

When the slingshot cache works for public tracker stuff, thats not really an issue since you dont really have any obligation to seed back in that case, and its quite fast.

It seems it has a limited number of connections it will do, and if all your peer slots are in use stumbling along at < 1kB/sec then the cache cant connect to deliver stuff, so stopping and starting torrents is the only way to provoke it to work, and that only seems to work after about 4am.

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