Thread: Good scene trackers?

So recently I lost my account at SceneAccess (first time I'd ever tried speed-cheating with trusty Vuze SBi, was looking to get a few dozen GBs up on a popular torrent to keep me above 1 for a while, learnt my lesson :|).

Yeah, that was pretty annoying as I've come to realise that was one of the best scene trackers around. I'd been on there for ages too. Pre times were great. I'll probably try to get back on there in a few weeks using a different channel.

But yeah, is there anything out there that has pre times that good? It was usually 1 minute for HD TV, under 10 minutes for HD films and games.

I got onto RevTT and it was just depressing, not just the pre times but the large size of the swarms, peerblock showed anti-p2p IPs. And they block you from snatching for hours unless you're a PU, which is bullshit. Might have an invite to TL on the way, I'm hoping that'll be an improvement...

Ps. I'm actually already user on this forum, but I decided a username change was in order for anonymity (was using same username as on some torrent sites).

Originally Posted by trudger

Ps. I'm actually already user on this forum, but I decided a username change was in order for anonymity (was using same username as on some torrent sites).

Having different names is a good idea. Since you have two accounts now with SBI you might ask a Mod to del your old account.

Bad to hear that you've been detected cheating...
Maybe you could give us some more information about how you have used Vuze. That way we could find out what went wrong, so that you can continue to use it with knowing your failure.

Coming to the trackers you've mentioned, I've to say that personally I think, that both RevTT and SCC are nearly the same regarding content/ speed. Of course if you look at the pre times its different. But who cares where it comes out first, right?
About TL i don't know, cause I'm not a member there. But since thats also a very huge tracker and I'm being a little paranoid, I would always prefer the smaller ones. (even though RevTT isn't that small too..)

I got onto RevTT and it was just depressing, not just the pre times but the large size of the swarms, peerblock showed anti-p2p IPs.

There was an article on Filesharefreak last year, saying that TL was invaded by anti-p2p companies. So, you should keep that in mind as well when choosing to which tracker to go.

Here's the article on SB-I, since as it seems, it doesn't exist anymore...
Anti-Piracy Group 'BayTSP' Infiltrates TorrentLeech.org

Originally Posted by trudger

(first time I'd ever tried speed-cheating with trusty Vuze SBi, was looking to get a few dozen GBs up on a popular torrent to keep me above 1 for a while, learnt my lesson :|).

I assume that trudger was cheating way too fast.

@trudger
Its best to give a screen shot of the setting screen of vuze that u were using. Otherwise we have no clear way to help you

GT worked ultra fine on SCC.Why do you need good pretimes so badly?
Iptorrents,TL or FL.ro are good alternatives.

Originally Posted by saebrtooth

I assume that trudger was cheating way too fast.

@trudger
Its best to give a screen shot of the setting screen of vuze that u were using. Otherwise we have no clear way to help you

Oh, it's a bit stupid really, I saw other peers where uploading at 3-6MB/s, so I set things to go around 2MB/s for a few hours. I never usually set go above 200-600KB/s and to a ratio of 1 and I've never had a problem with that :|. I kinda thought I'd get away with it as there were hundreds of peers but I guess an Azureus client near the top of the peer list stood out.

As for the pre time thing, I don't live in the US and it wasn't uncommon that 720p TV rips were not on anything but SCC before I left the house in the morning. But then again I'm on only one other scene tracker and a few TV sites.

Nah its not stupid - its a lesson hehe

I usually use speed++ it can handle maybe all situation and to be safe maybe even tick the average swarm.

Anyway, as for getting back onto SceneAccess, I have a dynamic IP, will simply using a new email, username, etc. be fine?

And yeah, if anyone can get me back in there... it'd be stupid for me to ask the same person (who has unlimited) for an invite.

I might try out a small gazelle-based scene tracker I found that promises good pre times in a bit...

Ps. What are IPtorrents like compared to SceneAccess... like, in terms of content coverage? I might be able to get an invite off someone.

IPT has lot's of worthless torrents, like loads of aplications that are not exactly scene and other stuff like that.If you want only scene try SCP for example.You can find easy an invite.

If you're worried about anti-P2P companies on RevTT, you'll faint when you start torrenting at TL. Since you care about pretimes so much (personally, I don't see the point), I'd go for either GFT (ratio-free, hard to cheat on) or TorrentVault (very underrated, they log a lot of stuff but cheating is easy).

And reregistering at SCC should be easy - just clear your cache and cookies, change your IP, and use a completely different username, password, port, and e-mail address to signup.

Originally Posted by trudger

Ps. I'm actually already user on this forum, but I decided a username change was in order for anonymity (was using same username as on some torrent sites).

That's not the way to go, you should use the Contact Us form at the bottom and ask for a name change. Please PM me your old account's name so that I can disable it.

Pretome (PTM) has nice pretimes

TRAC3.ME

Originally Posted by trudger

I'll probably try to get back on there in a few weeks using a different channel.

i think that's the best you can do. for now i'm not aware of any other sites that can compete with SCC.

if you're signing up again or get an account be sure to change the following:

• ip
• mail
• type of username (not the same style as your old one)
• use a generated password
• torrent client port
• specific things only you have that can be seen from outside. if any.

He needs a SCC alternative,that means all not only HD content.
As far as I can see when it comes to pres,PTM is the best alternative.