Revision3 torrents kind of suck

[hadees]

I don't know if anyone else have been having issues with them but i've been using revision3 torrents for a while because I already download other torrent rss feeds and I rather just use one application for my video downloading needs. It has however been my experience that the torrents are not always seeded in ever format and that the download speeds when they are seeded are pretty terrible when compared with direct download. Now I can kind of forgive the speed issue since cachefly is supposed to be super fast but the fact I have 3 episodes of ifanboy that aren't seeded is pretty annoying since that is supposed to be a supported way to download them. This isn't just limited to ifanboy either, i have some episodes of TRS and Systm that seem to be stuck.

[jayp83]

yeah- I agree. The only shows I've been able to consistently get through bittorrent are diggnation and TRS. I'll try bittorrent first because I'm more than happy to save Rev3 the bandwidth cost; every once and a while, I'll even download the show directly and seed the torrent myself.

Maybe torrent links should only be posted for the biggest-bandwidth shows (where people actually seed the torrents); it's just confusing to post dead torrent links for the other shows.

[matto1990]

I've had loads of problems getting on the trackers for any Rev3 shows torrent. Always says its offline in uTorrent. All other torrents work fine though :S

[logant]

Why don't you guys just download it through the site? There's even RSS feeds for them.

[hadees]

Eventually I do end up using the direct links but for most of the videos I download online I use utorrent and I would rather not have to run a separate program that would do the direct downloading with RSS for me.

I don't think it would be terribly hard for Revision3 to seed all their torrents all the time. Right now they offer torrent for files that no one is seeding. That just makes them look unprofessional.

[jayp83]

I agree- it looks unprofessional to post links to torrents, but not seed them.

Either don't post links for less popular torrents, or take down the links after a week (when the torrents have virtually collapsed anyway).