Greedy Torrent - “The Survival Kit for a Leech”
GreedyTorrent is the survival kit for a leech, a freeware software program that can boost your bittorrent upload ratio.
Features and advantages?
- Unlike many other utilities out there, GreedyTorrent is set-once-and-forget type software. You do not need to configure settings each time you queue a torrent file to download.
- No complicated options to configure. The default installation of GreedyTorrent is configured to provide you 5 times actual upload, enough for the survival of a normal ADSL user. Also there is no need to manually find the hash values or to set tracker URLs, GreedyTorrent takes care of them automatically. GreedyTorrent was developed with a novice user in mind, with an easy to use interface.
- Unlike many other utilities, GreedyTorrent generates no additional traffic. GreedyTorrent does not run or emulate an “extra torrent client”, and thus does not waste your precious bandwidth.
- Only one set of client identification and upload ratio are reported to tracker. Clients that emulate an extra BitTorrent client server have sometimes the disadvantage that two sets of ratio and client identification are reported to tracker, one from the utility and another from your actual bittorrent client.
- You dont need to stop using your BitTorrent client server while using GreedyTorrent. This has the advantage that you can download 24×7, while GreedyTorrent automatically maintains the specified upload ratio.
- The upload values reported by GreedyTorrent are no different than what an actual high speed uploader would generate. For instance, some utilities can increase your upload ratio dramatically by reporting a very high upload, lets say in the order of gigabytes in just one instance. However, this discrete abnormal value is easily detectable by an administrator. It remains as a contradiction to yournormal upload, and is likely to result in an account ban. When it comes to GreedyTorrent, even if you are setting the upload as 50 times your actual upload, the ratios reported are consistent and continuous in nature — it can only be inferred by the administrator as a high speed upload.
- GreedyTorrent does not generate any extra client identification, thus it cannot be banned by the tracker. You can use your favorite Bittorrent client server along with GreedyTorrent, the client identification generated by it will be preserved and reported without modification.
How Does it Work?
GreedyTorrent is implemented as a proxy for the BitTorrent tracker protocol. Once installed, it sits in the system tray and waits for the BitTorrent client server to make a request to the torrent tracker. Once the BitTorrent client server is connected and attempts to report the uploaded quantity, GreedyTorrent modifies the upload ratio to report the results according to your predetermined preferences.
GreedyTorrent advertises the ability to be in control of your upload ratio, which you can set to be increased as a multiple of either your download or upload speeds. For example, to maintain a 1:1 ratio for a poor uploader, a multiple of 1 times the actual download would be enough. This has the advantage that the torrent file you download always maintains 1:1 ratio, no matter how poor your actual upload speed is. Suppose you have a fair upload speed and you just want to double your upload ratio. You can select a multiple that is twice the upload.
http://www.greedytorrent.com/
With inputs from ZeroPaid
March 20th, 2007 No Comments posted in Uncategorized
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