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An Overview of Seedbox & Its Utility |
| Date Added: October 10, 2009 12:13:48 PM |
| Author: misb.edu.in |
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| Many of us may have come across the technical term “seedbox” several times but don’t have any idea on what it really is. Some even have felt the necessity to start one but without any clue on where to start from. However this article is going to give you a brief idea on dedicated seedbox & its utility so that users diving in the world of torrents can utilize them to their greatest advantage. What is a Seedbox? In basic form, you can say that a seedbox is a private & dedicated server that is mainly used for downloading & uploading of digital files. Seedboxes are found to be compatible with almost all major operating systems including Linux, Mac OS X & Windows. They largely make use of the BitTorrent protocol for uploading and downloading. High speed networks are generally get connected to dedicated seedbox & often with a throughput of 100 Mbit/s or even more. There are many other protocols such as FTP, HTTP, SFTP or rsync protocols which help in uploading of files to a seedbox from other BitTorrent users as well as downloading them to the user’s personal computer at high speeds. Some expensive seedboxes are available in market that provides remote desktop protocol or VNC connection so that multiple popular clients can run remotely. Other specially designed dedicated seedbox varieties are there that can run different torrent specific software including web interfaces of popular clients like rTorrent and μTorrent, Transmission & that of TorrentFlux. Utilities of Seedbox 1 Fast Speed. Seedboxes are generally on 100Mbit lines, which make them unimaginably faster than your home Internet access. 2 Quick Uploading. Your file uploading ratio will be 1:1 within minutes with a seedbox & you don’t have to seed the torrent for weeks. 3 Devoid of throttling and bandwidth limitation for using torrent clients. Use of a dedicated seedbox enables you to avoid bandwidth limitations as well as throttling problems. 4 Safety There is no necessity to use a BitTorrent client on your home computer if it has a seedbox. |
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