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Welcome to Pornbits! Hello! Just want to let you know what we're here for. We are here to provide the you the BEST This is a private tracker, and you have to register before you can get full access to the site. Before you do anything here at Pornbits we suggest you read the rules! There are only a few rules to abide by, but we do enforce them! Before you go any further you should read the Pornbits.org user agreement. Contents:
Site InformationWhat is this Bit-torrent all about anyway? How do I get the files? Check out Brian's BitTorrent FAQ and Guide. Where does all the donated money go? All donations will be used to enhance the site, and also for operational costs. User InformationI registered an account but did not receive the confirmation e-mail! You can use this form to delete the account so you can re-register. Note though that if you didn't receive the email the first time it will probably not succeed the second time either so you should really try another email address. You can also contact an Admin in our IRC channel to get active the account manually. The official IRC channel is #pornbits on the P2P IRC Network (irc.p2p-network.net). I've lost my username or password. Can you send it to me? Please use this form to have the login details mailed back to you. If that fails, please contact an Admin in our IRC channel. The official IRC channel is #pornbits on the P2P IRC Network (irc.p2p-network.net). We do not rename accounts. Please create a new one. (Use this form to delete your present account.) You can do it yourself by using this form. Click on your profile, then on your user name (at the top). It's important to distinguish between your overall ratio and the individual ratio on each torrent you may be seeding or leeching. The overall ratio takes into account the total uploaded and downloaded from your account since you joined the site. The individual ratio takes into account those values for each torrent. You may see two symbols instead of a number: "Inf.", which is just an abbreviation for Infinity, and means that you have downloaded 0 bytes while uploading a non-zero amount (ul/dl becomes infinity); "---", which should be read as "non-available", and shows up when you have both downloaded and uploaded 0 bytes (ul/dl = 0/0 which is an indeterminate amount). Why is my IP displayed on my details page? Only you and the site moderators can view your IP address and email. Regular users do not see that information. This problem sometimes occurs with MSIE. Close all Internet Explorer windows and open Internet Options in the control panel. Click the Delete Cookies button. You should now be able to login. My IP address is dynamic. How do I stay logged in? You do not have to anymore. All you have to do is make sure you are logged in with your actual IP when starting a torrent session. After that, even if the IP changes mid-session, the seeding or leeching will continue and the statistics will update without any problem. Why am I listed as not connectable, and why should I care? The tracker has determined that you are firewalled or NATed and cannot accept incoming connections. This means that other peers in the swarm will be unable to connect to you, only you to them. Even worse, if two peers are both in this state they will not be able to connect at all. This has obviously a detrimental effect on the overall speed. The way to solve the problem involves opening the ports used for incoming connections (the same range you defined in your client) on the firewall and/or configuring your NAT server to use a basic form of NAT for that range instead of NAPT (the actual process differs widely between different router models. Check your router documentation and/or support forum. You will also find lots of information on the subject at PortForward). For more information, see Why is being firewalled bad? What are the different user classes?
How does this promotion thing work, anyway?
Hey, I've seen Players with less than 15GB uploaded! Why? The upload limit used to be 10GB and we didn't demote anyone when we raised it to 15GB. Why can't my friend become a member? The site is invite only. This means that new users can only become a member if they get invited. Invites will be given about by Moderators and Admins when they will an user has contributed something special to the site. Do not ask for invites, as your request will be declined automatically. How do I add an avatar to my profile? First, find an image that you like, and that is within the rules. Then you will have to find a place to host it, such as our own BitBucket. (Other popular choices are Photobucket, Upload-It! or ImageShack). All that is left to do is copy the URL you were given when uploading it to the avatar field in your profile. Please do not make a post just to test your avatar. If everything is alright you'll see it in your details page. StatsMost common reasons for stats not updating
May I use any Bit-torrent client? Yes. The tracker now updates the stats correctly for all bittorrent clients. However, we still recommend that you avoid the following clients:
We recommend the following clients:
Why is a torrent I'm seeding/leeching listed several times in my profile? If for some reason (e.g. pc crash, or frozen client) your client exits improperly and you restart it, it will have a new peer_id, so it will show as a new torrent. The old one will never receive a "event=completed" or "event=stopped" and will be listed until some tracker timeout. Just ignore it, it will eventually go away. I've finished or cancelled a torrent. Why is it still listed in my profile? Some clients, notably TorrentStorm and Nova Torrent, do not report properly to the tracker when canceling or finishing a torrent. In that case the tracker will keep waiting for some message - and thus listing the torrent as seeding or leeching - until some timeout occurs. Just ignore it, it will eventually go away. Why do I sometimes see torrents I'm not leeching in my profile? When a torrent is first started, the tracker uses the IP to identify the user. Therefore the torrent will become associated with the user who last accessed the site from that IP. If you share your IP in some way (you are behind NAT/ICS, or using a proxy), and some of the persons you share it with are also users, you may occasionally see their torrents listed in your profile. (If they start a torrent session from that IP and you were the last one to visit the site the torrent will be associated with you). Note that now torrents listed in your profile will always count towards your total stats. To make sure your torrents show up in your profile you should visit the site immediately before starting a session. (The only way to completely stop foreign torrents from showing in profiles is to forbid users without an individual IP from accessing the site. Yes, that means you. Complain at your own risk.) Multiple IPs (Can I log in from a different computer?) Yes, the tracker is now capable of following sessions from different IPs for the same user. A torrent is associated with the user when it starts, and only at that moment is the IP relevant. So if you want to seed/leech from computer A and computer B with the same account you should access the site from computer A, start the torrent there, and then repeat both steps from computer B (not limited to two computers or to a single torrent on each, this is just the simplest example). You do not need to login again when closing the torrent. How does NAT/ICS change the picture? This is a very particular case in that all computers in the LAN will appear to the outside world as having the same IP. We must distinguish between two cases:
For those of you who are interested - Anatomy of a torrent session Some info about the "Anatomy of a torrent session". Uploading
Only specially authorized users (Uploaders) have permission to upload PB torrents. What criteria must I meet before I can join the Uploader team?
If you think you can match these criteria do not hesitate to contact one of the administrators.
Remember! Write your application carefully! Be sure to include your UL speed and what kind of stuff you're planning to upload.
Only well written letters with serious intent will be considered. Can I upload your torrents to other trackers? No. We are a closed, limited-membership community. Only registered users can use the TB tracker. Posting our torrents on other trackers is useless, since most people who attempt to download them will be unable to connect with us. This generates a lot of frustration and bad-will against us at Pornbits, and will therefore not be tolerated. Complaints from other sites' administrative staff about our torrents being posted on their sites will result in the banning of the users responsible. (However, the files you download from us are yours to do as you please. You can always create a new torrent, pointing to some other tracker, and upload it to the site of your choice.) DownloadingHow do I use the files I've downloaded? Check out this guide. Why did an active torrent suddently disappear? There may be three reasons for this:
My client says "slot limit exceeded." What does this mean? This means you have a low ratio so your up- and downloads will be automatically limited to prevent you from downloading to much at once.
Remember, you need to meet both condition to get your slot limit lifted. For example, you have downloaded 3.0 Gb and uploaded 1.0 Gb wich would result in a ratio of 0.333 you will have 3 slots available. How do I resume a broken download or reseed something? Open the .torrent file. When your client asks you for a location, choose the location of the existing file(s) and it will resume/reseed the torrent. Why do my downloads sometimes stall at 99%? The more pieces you have, the harder it becomes to find peers who have pieces you are missing. That is why downloads sometimes slow down or even stall when there are just a few percent remaining. Just be patient and you will, sooner or later, get the remaining pieces. What are these "a piece has failed a hash check" messages? Bittorrent clients check the data they receive for integrity. When a piece fails this check it is automatically re-downloaded. Occasional hash fails are a common occurrence, and you shouldn't worry. Some clients have an (advanced) option/preference to 'kick/ban clients that send you bad data' or similar. It should be turned on, since it makes sure that if a peer repeatedly sends you pieces that fail the hash check it will be ignored in the future. The torrent is supposed to be 100MB. How come I have downloaded 120MB? See the hash fails topic. If your client receives bad data it will have to redownload it, therefore the total downloaded may be larger than the torrent size. Make sure the "kick/ban" option is turned on to minimize the extra downloads. Why do I get a "Not authorized (xx h) - READ THE FAQ!" error? From the time that each new torrent is uploaded to the tracker, there is a period of time that some users must wait before they can download it. This delay in downloading will only affect users with a low ratio, and users with low upload amounts.
IF you're unconnectable, add a 4 HOUR DELAY TO ALL OF YOUR TORRENTS, LEECHING OR SEEDING. Why do I get a "rejected by tracker - Port xxxx is blacklisted" error? Your client is reporting to the tracker that it uses one of the default bittorrent ports (6881-6889) or any other common p2p port for incoming connections. Pornbits does not allow clients to use ports commonly associated with p2p protocols. The reason for this is that it is a common practice for ISPs to throttle those ports (that is, limit the bandwidth, hence the speed). The blocked ports list include, but is not neccessarily limited to, the following:
In order to use use our tracker you must configure your client to use any port range that does not contain those ports (a range within the region 49152 through 65535 is preferable, cf. IANA). Notice that some clients, like Azureus 2.0.7.0 or higher, use a single port for all torrents, while most others use one port per open torrent. The size of the range you choose should take this into account (typically less than 10 ports wide. There is no benefit whatsoever in choosing a wide range, and there are possible security implications). These ports are used for connections between peers, not client to tracker. Therefore this change will not interfere with your ability to use other trackers (in fact it should increase your speed with torrents from any tracker, not just ours). Your client will also still be able to connect to peers that are using the standard ports. If your client does not allow custom ports to be used, you will have to switch to one that does. Do not ask us, or in the forums, which ports you should choose. The more random the choice is the harder it will be for ISPs to catch on to us and start limiting speeds on the ports we use. If we simply define another range ISPs will start throttling that range also. Finally, remember to forward the chosen ports in your router and/or open them in your firewall, should you have them. See the Why am I listed as not connectable? section and links therein for more information on this. What's this "IOError - [Errno13] Permission denied" error? If you just want to fix it reboot your computer, it should solve the problem. Otherwise read on. IOError means Input-Output Error, and that is a file system error, not a tracker one. It shows up when your client is for some reason unable to open the partially downloaded torrent files. The most common cause is two instances of the client to be running simultaneously:
What's this "TTL" in the browse page? The torrent's Time To Live, in hours. It means the torrent will be deleted from the tracker after that many hours have elapsed (yes, even if it is still active). Note that this a maximum value, the torrent may be deleted at any time if it's inactive. How can I improve my download speed?How can I improve my download speed? The download speed mostly depends on the seeder-to-leecher ratio (SLR). Poor download speed is mainly a problem with new and very popular torrents where the SLR is low. (Proselytising sidenote: make sure you remember that you did not enjoy the low speed. Seed so that others will not endure the same.) There are a couple of things that you can try on your end to improve your speed:
Isn't this the same as above? No. Connections limit the number of peers your client is talking to and/or downloading from. Uploads limit the number of peers your client is actually uploading to. The ideal number is typically much lower than the number of connections, and highly dependent on your (physical) connection. As explained above peers favour other peers that upload to them. When you start leeching a new torrent you have nothing to offer to other peers and they will tend to ignore you. This makes the starts slow, in particular if, by change, the peers you are connected to include few or no seeders. The download speed should increase as soon as you have some pieces to share. Why is my browsing so slow while leeching? Your download speed is always finite. If you are a peer in a fast torrent it will almost certainly saturate your download bandwidth, and your browsing will suffer. You should limit your upload and download speed to achieve decent results. Feel free to experiment. Browsing was used just as an example, the same would apply to gaming, IMing, etc... My ISP uses a transparent proxy. What should I do?Caveat: This is a large and complex topic. It is not possible to cover all variations here. Short reply: change to an ISP that does not force a proxy upon you. If you cannot or do not want to then read on. Basically a middleman. When you are browsing a site through a proxy your requests are sent to the proxy and the proxy forwards them to the site instead of you connecting directly to the site. There are several classifications (the terminology is far from standard):
A transparent proxy may or may not be anonymous, and there are several levels of anonymity. How do I find out if I'm behind a (transparent/anonymous) proxy? Try ProxyJudge. It lists the HTTP headers that the server where it is running received from you. The relevant ones are HTTP_CLIENT_IP, HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR and REMOTE_ADDR. Why am I listed as not connectable even though I'm not NAT/Firewalled? The Pornbits tracker is quite smart at finding your real IP, but it does need the proxy to send the HTTP header HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR. If your ISP's proxy does not then what happens is that the tracker will interpret the proxy's IP address as the client's IP address. So when you login and the tracker tries to connect to your client to see if you are NAT/firewalled it will actually try to connect to the proxy on the port your client reports to be using for incoming connections. Naturally the proxy will not be listening on that port, the connection will fail and the tracker will think you are NAT/firewalled. If your ISP only allows HTTP traffic through port 80 or blocks the usual proxy ports then you would need to use something like socks and that is outside the scope of this FAQ. The site accepts connections on port 81 besides the usual 80, and using them may be enough to fool some proxies. So the first thing to try should be connecting to www.Pornbits.org:81. Note that even if this works your bt client will still try to connect to port 80 unless you edit the announce url in the .torrent file. Otherwise you may try the following:
Notice that now you will be doing all your browsing through a public proxy, which are typically quite slow. Communications between peers do not use port 80 so their speed will not be affected by this, and should be better than when you were "unconnectable". How do I make my Bit-torrent client use a proxy? First, check your client's settings/preferences and see if there is any way to configure the proxy through there. Every client is different so there is no way we are able to give you simple step-by-step instructions. If you are not able to find these settings, just configure your operating system as above. When you configure a proxy for Internet Explorer you're actually configuring a proxy for all HTTP traffic (thank Microsoft and their "IE as part of the OS" policy ). On the other hand if you use another browser (Opera/Mozilla/Firefox) and configure a proxy there you'll be configuring a proxy just for that browser. Why can't I signup from behind a proxy? It is our policy not to allow new accounts to be opened from behind a proxy. Does this apply to other torrent sites? This section was written for Pornbits, a closed, port 80-81 tracker. Other trackers may be open or closed, and many listen on e.g. ports 6868 or 6969. The above does not necessarily apply to other trackers. Why can't I connect? Is the site blocking me?Your failure to connect may be due to several reasons. Maybe my address is blacklisted? The site blocks addresses listed in the (former) PeerGuardian database, as well as addresses of banned users. This works at Apache/PHP level, it's just a script that blocks logins from those addresses. It should not stop you from reaching the site. In particular it does not block lower level protocols, you should be able to ping/traceroute the server even if your address is blacklisted. If you cannot then the reason for the problem lies elsewhere. If somehow your address is indeed blocked in the PG database do not contact us about it, it is not our policy to open ad hoc exceptions. You should clear your IP with the database maintainers instead. Your ISP blocks the site's address (In the first place, it's unlikely your ISP is doing so. DNS name resolution and/or network problems are the usual culprits.) There's nothing we can do. You should contact your ISP (or get a new one). Note that you can still visit the site via a proxy, follow the instructions in the relevant section. In this case it doesn't matter if the proxy is anonymous or not, or which port it listens to. Notice that you will always be listed as an "unconnectable" client because the tracker will be unable to check that you're capable of accepting incoming connections. What if I can't find the answer to my problem here?Post in the Forums, by all means. You'll find it is usually a friendly and helpful place, provided you follow a few basic guidelines:
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