Piracy

Just a question: why private trackers? Do you need any specific content that you can’t find anywhere else?

Typically, ratio private trackers have bonus point systems that you can exchange for free leeches or upload data. Read the rules for bonus points. You can maximize your points by being smart with your downloads. Downloading small torrents that are old, free leech huge torrents, torrents dying, etc. Depends on the tracker.

If they don't have bonus points, trackers also offer free leeches..that you need to snatch asap..if you download those everything you upload goes to your buffer.

I've been in many trackers and made TBs of upload data without having a seed box or uploading new torrents. It's just a little patience and then you'll be able to download whatever.

Seeding, but not uploading earns bonus points. Bonus points buy upload credit, so all you need to do to is not delete the torrent from your client and you’ll earn BP.

Usually there'll be freeleech files or freeleech days etc. This alows you to download without affecting your ratio.

Download a heap of freeleech content ans seed it 24/7. I was on a porn tracker and downloaded a few 20gb site-rips on freeleech. If 5 people download the full site off me, that's 100gb of ratio.

Try download some big files that you'll be one of the few seeds of after a while. If you only download content with 2000 seeders then you'll never get a good ratio, but if you can download some full TV series on freeleech then people will occaisionally want to watch the show and you can seed it to them

It's all on the public sites anyway. Just use 1337x or something.

Does the tracker have any freeleech torrents? What tracker is this?

Look for freeleech torrents and also sort by most leechers. See what most people are actively downloading and get that. Your ratio will increase in no time.

If you want to build up your ratio, you should try part seeding or outside seeding.

I guess it depends on the tracker. The only private tracker I ever used was actually for arcade and video game ROMs (PleasureDome), and they structured things so that their most popular torrents (MAME sets) were free to leech but contributed to the upload side of ratio (so you could download the entire thing for 'free', but that download didn't count against your ratio requirement, and you could build ratio by seeding it). It generally worked - at least most of the time, but unless you had a seedbox, a VPN with port forwarding or exposed ports for BitTorrent, you weren't likely to build up much ratio on other torrents.

I don't use torrents much anymore (I'm pretty much in the Usenet camp these days), but I wouldn't really do it seriously unless I paid for a seedbox.

on my private tracker you get points for just always seeding, you can turn those points in for ratios boosts at a pretty good rate.

What site is it?

It's frustrating. I'm on an invite-only MMA tracker, and it's pretty much impossible to maintain ratio because instead of just uploading a 480 / 720 / 1080 for each event, we end up with 20 different uploads as everyone tries to get as much seeding themselves as possible.

The result of that is, without becoming an uploader your ratio just drops and drops. Which of course further incentivises fracturing of a single source into 20 pointless reuploads.

For starters, many have mentioned freeleech torrents to build ratio, you can also add stuff you already have by downloading the same release from their site and setting the directory to where you already have the files (this only works for releases that are identical though), if your internet is fast enough, you can snag just released torrents (the more popular you expect it to be the better) and reseed to other people as they get it. This only works for torrents that are within a few minutes old though.

Past that look into getting a seedbox or set up an old/cheap computer to run constantly and download your torrents to that, and just transfer them to your main pc as you need them.

I have had this problem as well especially when I first join a tracker. Overall my ratio is around 6, but for private trackers where I have been seeding for over 2 years I barely hit 1.5.

If the tracker has a bonus point system understand how it works and try to build up a bunch of upload credit with it. If the site has freeleach only download freeleach torrents for a while until you build up enough upload. The last method is personally my least favorite, but you can findout what torrents are normally the most popular and setup a program to always download them as soon as they are uploaded. Even if you won't do anything with the torrent content it can help build a ratio.

I highly recommend either making, or buying a seed box for private trackers, and most of them will give you bonuses for seeding for a long time, or seeding very big torrents. If all else fails you might want to consider paying for VIP if they have it. Normally paid accounts get extra upload credit or freeleach on everything, or something like that.

There are softwares which can fake seeding to raise your ratio.