Stuck in low ratio on AudioNews

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  1. Drewz_

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    Hello, guys! A few days ago I was stuck in low ratio (0.76 instead of 0.8). How I back it up without donating? I have a lot of seeding things from that site, but it was on pause long time. Now I`m turned it on to seeding, but it won't help. So I calculated that I need to seed about 530-550 Gb.

    Is anyone could help me with that or know how to solve that problem? It would be sad to lost 11 years account(
     
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  3. Djord Emer

    Djord Emer Audiosexual

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    They know you're going to get negative, that's why they charge money for "ratio" lol. I don't think there's anything you can do for free at this point.
     
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    they tell you at the beginning of the account that AN is ratio based, so the best you can do is leech slowly.

    my ratio 9.18 over 17 years.

    you can either pay them, get a seedbox or create a new account next month and then follow the ratio balance to be 1:1 down and upload.

    but hey others do it too, otherwise you couldnt download stone age old releases with super speed.
     
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  5. clone

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    if you stuck to the first page until you figure out what you are doing, you would never have any problem.

    it's funny when new users see how fast connections can be, and how asymmetric their own is. Click one 50gb Kontakt library and 2 hours later when it is done, the clock starts for you to put all that back. good luck with that.
     
  6. typical-love

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    No matter what tinkering I've done I could never get any of my torrents to seed, even highly active ones... port forwarding, etc. My suspicion is that it's arranged that way on purpose somehow. Only downloading what I really can't find anywhere else for now as last resort. Really don't want to have to donate again, but probably will eventually.
     
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  7. Djord Emer

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    Users can't create secondary accounts, it's IP based or something. If they find users using secondary accounts they can be banned (along with the original one), it's the website's rules so it's worth mentioning here.

    It's not easy at first, definitely a pay-to-win situation (unless you spend hours grinding and have optimal internet connection) and I wouldn't be surprised if it was like this by design.
     
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    you need a decent upload speed, of course. but the rest is easy. you guys know exactly what new files will be popular with other users.

    pc, applications and plugins, known teams, no samples. it only seems stacked against new users because they are the only ones who screw this stuff up. someone who has been using it for free for 15 years isn't going to come complain if they have to get unlimited for a while. The most expensive part will be the external multi-tb drives that will get filled. anyone telling you otherwise has their own agenda. idgaf what anyone does. :)
     
  9. Drewz_

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    It would be nice, but I can't download something. It looks like only the one way to solve - pay them. For 10 years it was ok and free, and now I`m must to pay for using a shareware tarcker? I think it not worth it
     
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    At all, I see that only the way - donating. But it won't work, cause I have no way to pay them anyway
     
  11. Drewz_

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    As I remember, new members can join only on specify date of month. Could remnd me which day exactly?
     
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    2nd day. comrade time zones. of course, you could just use the other ru one . it's only a little more wild west. well, east; but you get the idea.
     
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    My cat typed this.
     
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  14. Moogerfooger

    Moogerfooger Audiosexual

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    I’ve always had shit luck seeding there.
     
  15. Drewz_

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    oh, a big thanks :)
     
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    And how, may I ask?:wtf:
     
  17. genophyte

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    seedbox is really the only way to go if you want hassle free downloads without ratio watching headaches .

    realistically its just sometimes (most times) easier to not even bother with private trackers like audionews
     
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    but most of it have some volume limitations about 5Gb
     
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    the problem is that there are more seeders than leechers and on top AN uses seedboxes for new releases, bcs it happened very often that the first seeder left to early and then torrent did run dead. So in the beginning most of the time the seedboxes help feeding the swarm, but it aalso means that seeders cant get as easily their ratio back. hence people setup 1:1 leeching or even 1:2 (d:u), so they have extra ratio for urgent releases.
    In the last few years AN added more seedbonuses for bigger releases, so you get extra MB or even GB added per release you make.
    for example, torrent is 1.2GB, you get 870MB seed bonus on top of the 1.2GB, means you uploaded 2GB. to encourage creation of new torrents, torrents are checked for dupe, self made and repacks ofc. But people still try to scam. If they do that a few times, they get banned.
    you can let this account go dead and then create a new one on a new IP, where you really follow the ratio from the start.

    in general:
    advantage of AN over rutracker are:
    no repacks, clean releases as they are, all information included, RUtracker people stripped NFO files from the releases, leading to have releases without serials.
    Or they create very dump pack-inception. like pack 150GB twice or three times. AN staff keep avoiding that.
    Speed is equal with RUTracker ofc.

    Money from the ratio donation is used for:
    - pay for seedboxes
    - pay hardware to run page
    - stay ad-free - u can browse AN without adblocker.
     
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    It's easy, you just got to strike early and then increase the size of the popular stuff, but you need to be patient and keep an eye on your ratio.
     
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  21. biginjapan

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    thanks we have rutracker! big respect to these guys who spend their time doing all that stuff so thousands of us can get it instantly and for free. that site even has special people who seeds old af torrents just to keep content alive.
     
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