Oink! and other Private Torrent Sites

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[quote name='Maklershed']I just put up my first torrent ever on Oink. I feel special.[/quote]What is it? I'll download it if you wanna download one of mine. A little ratio exchanged program.
 
Is anybody here a member of wild-bytes.org? I finally just got my computer back and when I tried to long in there it says that my account has been disabled. I just signed upto it and haven't even used the site, so I don't know what bullshit this is. I've had barely a chance to look at the site, so I don't know what's up.
 
[quote name='cag1000']Thanx just signed up for wild-bytes. Are they any good?[/quote]

Hey, do you mind doing me a favor, can you still log-in there? Can you check for me why my accoutn was disabled for no reason? I haven't even tried looking at anything there and it's been disabled.
 
Alright, could someone tell me if this were true or not - is it true that the disable/delete your account if you are inactive for 7 days (i.e. not DLing/upping anything and that simply logging in doesn't count)?

Edit: Also, is myspleen down for anyone else?
 
Okay, would anybody be nice enough to send me an invite then? It'd be nice if you could actually see what they have before trying to get signed up with them, but I can understand why they don't.
 
Err...nevermind, got it working and fixed it. Anyway, man if you look this thread up on Google it is linked to a ton of places now. StumbleUpon, etc.
 
[quote name='Moxio']I can spare a couple Demonoid invites, but you'll have to prove you're trustworthy, like have a high ratio on another respectable site.[/quote]
Hey Mox do you still have any of those Demonoid invites? I don't have any invites to trade, but here's my ratio on OiNK.
http://oink.me.uk/userdetails.php?id=368307

I don't download much.
 
For users of Oink, you may find this useful:

To improve your ratio, the best thing to do is to upload albums that arent on the site. Even if its something thats already on there I find that Oink users like to have two options of cds .. lossy (vo) or lossless (flac). Here's a guide how to rip your cds in four formats. When you get to the end the two encoding programs I'd choose are LAME for lossy ripping and FLAC for lossless ripping:

http://jiggafellz.isa-geek.net/eac/

It seems very complicated and perhaps intimidating but its pretty easy if you have patience and follow the guide step by step.


When you've ripped something here's a guide to help you upload them:

http://jiggafellz.isa-geek.net/bt/utorrent/utorrent.htm

This may also help .. just look at some of your more rare cds and search them in the request box. You may find that some people are looking for it or its already available and they're looking for a certain quality version of it:

http://oink.me.uk/viewrequests.php


And finally, you may find these FAQs useful:

I need to know how to increase my ratio/I have nothing to upload!

I know it seems this is the de facto reply for any ratio improving question, but upload your own torrents, it really works! There are great guides to help you do this that are located here and here . Even if you think everything you own has been uploaded, think again. There are some albums that lack a V0 or FLAC rip, try finding an album in your collection that doesn't have one, or try uploading in a different lossy format (more info on these filetypes here.) Nearly everything gets snatched at least once, so even if one person downloads your lossless torrent, that is an extra ~200MB added to your ratio. If nobody snatches it at all in the torrent’s initial 28 day life, re-upload it. It may not have caught somebody’s eye the first time, but you never know who could be browsing the second time.

Why am I clever in some torrents but not in others?

This is a fairly common problem, and is solved fairly easily. You need to stop the non-clever torrents, and start them again, a couple at a time. That should freshly announce them as ‘clever’ to the site. If they announce as non-clever again, something happened. Try changing your listening port, and make sure that port you just selected is forwarded properly.

I downloaded the most popular releases, why isn’t my ratio going up?

It’s pretty simple, because they’re popular. Torrents that have a lot of seeders are very hard to upload on. There are so many peers like you that are looking to upload to each leecher, that it is unlikely that you’ll be chosen to be one of those uploaders. If you happen to be lucky enough to start uploading, it won’t be for long. Lots of seeders + very few leechers = high download rates for the leechers. This means they’ll finish downloading rather quickly, leaving you with very little uploaded. For the best way to get upload credit, look a couple questions up.

Nobody is downloading from me, but there are leechers on this torrent I’m seeding!

This is already partially answered in the question above, read that. If the torrent you are seeding is very large, or has multiple directories, there is another answer. Sometimes, a user will only download part of a torrent that he or she wants. Some clients do not report a partial download like this as a snatch, but keep reporting it as a leecher. This means that they are actually a seeder, and not a downloader. A good way to check for these types of ‘leechers’ as opposed to real leechers are to look at how long they are active. If they’ve been connected to the tracker for a fairly long time, and haven’t downloaded any (or very little), then they’re probably one of those ‘fake leechers’. The best examples of a torrent with lots of fake leechers are the Rosetta Stone torrents.

Another solution: check the connectability between you and the leechers. Some users may or may not be connectable. If you and the leecher are unconnectable users, there are going to be zero connections between you. You'll have to wait for a clever user to come in and seed/leech. If one of you is connectable and one is not, it will take around 30 minutes for you to connect to each other. If both of you are connectable, there could just be a high seeder/leecher ratio. If not, check how many files the leecher is seeding. If he has lots of active torrent, this means he would have lots of connections. Be patient, and you will connect to them eventually.

If you've checked the connectibility, and you're sure the "leechers" should be downloading something, try enabling encryption in your client and restarting the torrents. See below.

Why is my upload speed so low/non-existant?

There are a couple answers to this question (read them all to see which ones might apply to you):

1) Check to see if there are any leechers on your torrents. You can't upload data if people aren't downloading data!

2)Check the connectability between you and the leechers. Some users may or may not be connectable. If you and the leecher are unconnectable users, there are going to be zero connections between you. You'll have to wait for a clever user to come in and seed/leech. If one of you is connectable and one is not, it will take around 30 minutes for you to connect to each other. If both of you are connectable, there could just be a high seeder/leecher ratio. If not, check how many files the leecher is seeding. If he has lots of active torrent, this means he would have lots of connections. Be patient, and you will connect to them eventually.

3) You’re probably being throttled/capped by your ISP. This means that they are limiting your bittorrent upload speed to a very small amount. If you’re an Azureus or uTorrent user, you can potentially get around this problem with encryption. Like its name implies, encryption means that the client is sending out encrypted packets of data, which fool the limiters. This can help increase your upload speed by a fair amount. Note that encryption only works when both users are encrypted, so even if you don't think you need it, another user might! Also, try chaning the port that your client is using. Some ISPs throttle certain ports, so opening anything from 40,000 to 60,000 is a good start.

To enable encryption in uTorrent 1.5 go to Options -> Preferences -> Network. Enable protocol encryption and check Allow Incoming Legacy Connections. To enable encryption in uTorrent 1.6 go to Options -> Preferences -> BitTorrent. Enable protocol encryption and check Allow Incoming Legacy Connections. Also try enabling lazy_bitfield. uTorrent Options -> Prefs -> Advanced -> peer.lazy_bitfield true

To enable encryption in Azureus you have to switch to intermediate user mode and go to Tools -> Options -> Connection -> Transport Encryption and enable the Require encrypted transport checkbox. Unless you discover otherwise, the "Plain" encryption setting should be sufficient. Also, enable lazy_bitfield. Tools>Options>Transfers.

4) If you’re already encrypted, and still have a slow rate, it could be because the user that is downloading has limited their download speed (or might be a dial-up user). They can only accept a certain amount of data per second, and therefore you can only upload to them at that speed (less if there are other seeders on that torrent).

5) Make sure that the seeder / leecher ratio is at an acceptable level. You will never upload huge amounts if there are 800 other seeders on a torrent with you at the same time.

6) It is also possible that you just have a slow connection. No amount of encrypting will really help that, I’m afraid.


Hopefully this info helps. Let me know how it all turns out for ya.
 
I still have an OiNK invite waiting for someone with good ratios. PM me. I would love to trade for good sites that I don't have.
 
Hi, I would like an oink invite or any other decent site too. I can only offer invites for black-cats, demonoid, or acid-lounge. I always keep a good ratio on all the sites. Thanks in advance.
 
[quote name='naes']http://www.sceneaccess.org/

Open signups![/quote]

Good site that has gotten better with time. It's also gonna be open for a bit due to some recent bugs and it's free leech.

Oh yaeh, there are so many people signing up to CAG just for this thread it's pathetic. I hope everybody just ignores them.

Oh yaeh, anybody have an invite to karagarga.net? I have cinematik and asiandvdclub, which are both fantatic, but I hear that karagarga is really for those with the Criterion sort of taste in movies. I still buy them anyway.
 
[quote name='hiccupleftovers']Good site that has gotten better with time. It's also gonna be open for a bit due to some recent bugs and it's free leech.

Oh yaeh, there are so many people signing up to CAG just for this thread it's pathetic. I hope everybody just ignores them.

Oh yaeh, anybody have an invite to karagarga.net? I have cinematik and asiandvdclub, which are both fantatic, but I hear that karagarga is really for those with the Criterion sort of taste in movies. I still buy them anyway.[/quote]
How do you think people get started on these forums, eh? You find something of interest and then you signup, and go from there. Everyone has to to be a noob at a forum at some point, so you shouldn't tell people to ignore us just cause we started. Plus, if we have things to offer people who post here, then whats wrong with that. Noone is begging or anything like that, at least Im not, so you should stop being such an asshole about it.
 
The point is that this forum has nothing to do with torrents and trackers at all. I would imagine people get started on this site looking for cheap video games, as opposed to the countless who have signed up just to hit this thread asking for an invite and never returning.
 
I see your point, and I agree. However, I still dont think we should be ignored simply because this is the first place we post on this forum. I for one was actually looking for a copy of the old Command & Conquer, because I was having trouble finding a torrent for it. I did not find that, but in the process I came across this page. Not wanting to pass up the opportunity to get into Oink I posted here. Does that mean that everyone should ignore me?
 
[quote name='tohms19']How do you think people get started on these forums, eh? You find something of interest and then you signup, and go from there. Everyone has to to be a noob at a forum at some point, so you shouldn't tell people to ignore us just cause we started. Plus, if we have things to offer people who post here, then whats wrong with that. Noone is begging or anything like that, at least Im not, so you should stop being such an asshole about it.[/quote]

Shut the fuck up!:D

[quote name='Genocidal']The point is that this forum has nothing to do with torrents and trackers at all. I would imagine people get started on this site looking for cheap video games, as opposed to the countless who have signed up just to hit this thread asking for an invite and never returning.[/quote]

And that's all I have to say as well.

I found this site because it was in an OXM (I think it was this Xbox magazine, or anyway the now defunct one that only lasted like 15 issues or something and was published by the same company that does EGM I believe. They all have similar initials and it's easy to mix them up) way back when and then found them again through GameFAQs when someone had it in their sig and finally saw them again in another magazine. Most of this is in the CAG in the media thread. And when I signed up it wasn't for a torrent thread or any particular single thread; it was strictly for games. Later the addition of DVDs was nice and greatly lauded and worthwhile and what's kept me has been the deals and the fantastic community that's here. i know a bunch of people from here now. And that's a brief summary of how I came to CAG, which I've actually posted a bunch of times.

[quote name='tohms19']I see your point, and I agree. However, I still dont think we should be ignored simply because this is the first place we post on this forum. I for one was actually looking for a copy of the old Command & Conquer, because I was having trouble finding a torrent for it. I did not find that, but in the process I came across this page. Not wanting to pass up the opportunity to get into Oink I posted here. Does that mean that everyone should ignore me?[/quote]

Yes, and that's why I am.
 
Very mature, Hiccuple. Thank you for your summary, you are special arent you Mr.Uppity. I guess I just must not be cut out for making friends on forum sites, though Ive already corresponded with several people on this site, who seem not to heed your advice.
 
i got 3 invites to supertorrents. really good site. good releases. need oink. also a really GOOD tv site. and any other good onez. thanks send pm
 
anyone have a black cats? If you do can you look up my username? I think its MaynardLD50 or Maynard82 and tell me what my email i registered with because i dont remember :(

If you have an invite toss me one i'll give you a torrentleech or demonoid or whatever
 
Hi, I think your user name expired because I can not find either one of the maynard names you listed. There is only one there with the username maynard but I doubt it's you. Good luck.

[quote name='Maynard']anyone have a black cats? If you do can you look up my username? I think its MaynardLD50 or Maynard82 and tell me what my email i registered with because i dont remember :(

If you have an invite toss me one i'll give you a torrentleech or demonoid or whatever[/quote]
 
yea i signed up just to see if anyone was kind enough to give me an invite to oink... to be honest i've only used public trackers before and don't have anything to offer. i promise to seed well though!.....
 
I've been thinking about something. Does anyone want to make their own torrents and post them on CAG to download? Of course we'd have to make it so new users couldn't just download away... There's a tutuorial somewhere on how to make uTorrent your own tracker.
 
It doesn't have to be part of CAG then. It could be just for CAG members. See where I'm getting at?
[quote name='Genocidal']No. That opens CAG up for all sorts of legal troubles.[/quote]
 
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