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Or for people who aren't interested in managing their own box, building / installing / maintaining the control software, etc. Just the same way Dropbox is for people who haven't heard of NASs or Amazon S3.
There are seedbox providers which require very little knowledge or effort.
>Huge torrents are hard to get I'm not sure about this claim. From personal experience using ADSL, a 3G USB stick, my uni's 100Mbps connection back in the day and lowly 128k ISDN, I'd say that a torrent can either saturate one's connection with a healthy swarm or be slow as molasses due to the lack of seeds. I'm not sure how a seedbox can bypass the inherent mode of operation of the Bittorent protocol.
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How do you have a $5 plan? I don't see it listed anywhere on the pricing page: http://puu.sh/6Jlp8.png
Interesting, they used to offer a 10GB plan for $5 (which I've always been on: http://d.pr/i/WDEK ) . Apparently it's not available anymore! However, I was never asked to upgrade my plan (I didn't even know the plan I was on didn't exist anymore before today!)
I guess then the premium accounts were suspended as it was hurting Rapidshare's sales and Put.io stopped offering that service.
Put.io is awesome, it's a very good and very well executed idea, but it was even more awesome a few years ago, and less expensive.
I use and love put.io. Completely hassle free. I'd never go back. The killer feature is instant completion of torrents if someone else has already downloaded them. I can be watching a movie 60 seconds after thinking of it.
I'm a technically-inclined person, but I really don't want to spend hours fiddling with torrents. The instant torrent completion is an absolutely killer feature. The UI is easy to use and dead simple. The developers regularly update the site and let us know when there are disruptions.
I'm a "broke" college student, and to be honest, out of all of the online services I pay money for, this is the one I think the least about before purchasing.
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Or for people who aren't interested in managing their own box, building / installing / maintaining the control software, etc. Just the same way Dropbox is for people who haven't heard of NASs or Amazon S3.
There are seedbox providers which require very little knowledge or effort.
Name one seedbox provider that can be set up that quickly.
I string this together with another script to rename content and it drops right into my Plex library.
This seems like a slightly worse seedbox marketed towards people who haven't heard of seedboxes.
Or for people who aren't interested in managing their own box, building / installing / maintaining the control software, etc. Just the same way Dropbox is for people who haven't heard of NASs or Amazon S3.
Umm... maybe i am misunderstanding their service, but i fail to see the point. With put.io, a server can torrent the file for me. And then... i stream it from the server... So, my pc still needs that gigabits of transfer, at my usual net speed. Where was the gain? Couldn't i have used the same time to torrent it? In fact i would have to torrent it ONCE, but with put.io i have to stream (and thus effectively download…
If I understand this correctly... You're paying 0.99/mo to ensure that you get top speeds of all torrents downloaded all the time. Sometimes you can't get the best seeder because more powerful seeders are taking your priority. put.io is always that more powerful seeder.