Bitfetch is a new torrent download service designed to make downloading torrents from your browser a breeze.Many ISPs have adopted the practice of violating net neutrality and heavily throttling BitTorrent traffic along with every other protocol they deem inappropriate. There have also been many incidents lately in which ISPs have shown a blatant disregard for the privacy of their end users by inspecting their traffic or giving out their information to 3rd parties without due process. There is a way around this.
How it works:- Add a torrent URL, magnet URI or otherwise upload a torrent file. You can also type something in and search for it.
- When your torrent is added its cost will appear on the right side. Click on Deposit and send a Bitcoin payment to the address listed.
- Once it is done downloading you will be provided with a fast direct HTTPS link to the file(s).
AnonymousPayments are only accepted in Bitcoin. We do not log IPs or any other data that may be used to identify you. There is no account to register - you are identified by a randomly generated unique token which you can use to access your balance.
All connections to Bitfetch - including downloads - are encrypted by default. Torrents can either be deleted manually by you or automatically after 48 hours (torrents over 10GB in size are deleted after 10 days).
Automatic zippingYou can choose to have torrents zipped so there is only a single file to download.
File selectionNeed to download a small file out of a big collection? No problem!
Cost is
0.001 BTC per GB.
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Some additional info:
Connectivity & uploadThe server is on a gigabit connection so your torrent will be downloaded at the highest possible speed. Each torrent has a 8 MB/s upload allowance with 20 upload slots. Slow or stalled torrents are the result of low or nonexistent amount of seeds.
Slow downloads from the USThis applies to browser downloads only. As a cost-cutting measure some US ISPs (Comcast, Verizon) will limit the throughput of transatlantic TCP connections. To get around this you can use a multithreaded download manager such as DownThemAll.
RatioRatio is not guaranteed to be 1, in some cases it will be much higher or lower. It all depends on the amount of leechers on the network. Average ratio of all torrents ever downloaded is currently 1.618 (BT total bytes out / BT total bytes in). I am open to suggestions on how to handle ratio for people that use private trackers.