love2leech :: FAQ

Its available @ http://tbdev.net ...Its open free source code..... Made by the People For The People...

I think it's fair to mention some of the coders that this site is now based on, both directly and indirectly. the Bit Torrent community is a friendly place for coders, and I'd like to say thanks here for all their hard work and support.

I'm sure I've forgotten a few, but we all owe a debt to:
CoLdFuSiOn, Laffin, Retro, Sir_Snugglebunny, System, DRRRRRR, dokty, traffic, Bleach, Devinkray, MisterB, EnzoF1, Wilba, Rightthere, S4ne, RAW, DemoN, Oink, Psor, Bodhisattva, Echo, TheBrass, Tux2005, x0r, pdq, Bigjoos, BIGBOSS, TheMask, Lamers, Lords, Sparks, Cddvdheaven, TVRecall, Cue, putyn, neptune, Alex2005.

love2leech is hosted and maintained by the Site Admins the donated money goes to help cover the costs involved in bringing you this great community!!

Currently the E-mail confirmation system is down so you wouldn't have received one anyway.

Use the Recover Link on the login page.

Yes if there is a valid reason please contact a member of staff.

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).

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.

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.

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).

User = The default class of new members.
Power User = Can access certain parts of the site and view NFO files.
Star = Has donated money to Total-Bytes .
VIP = Donator Class. Immune to automatic demotion.
Other Customised title.
Com VIP= Staff or Owner from another community (given at our discretion)

Power User Must have been be a member for at least 4 weeks, have uploaded at least 25GB and have a ratio at or above 1.05.
The promotion is automatic when these conditions are met. Note that you will be automatically demoted from
this status if your ratio drops below 0.95 at any time.
Star is given for donations.
VIP class for users that donate unless already at a higher position.
(Anyone begging for VIP status will be automatically disqualified.)
Other Conferred by mods at their discretion (not available to Users or Power Users).
Uploader Appointed by Admins/SysOp (see the 'Uploading' section for conditions).
Moderator You don't ask us, we'll ask you!

The PU limit used to be 10GB and we didn't demote anyone when we raised it to 25GB

There is a 3500 users limit. When that number is reached we stop accepting new members. Accounts inactive for more than 42 days are automatically deleted, so keep trying. (There is no reservation or queuing system, don't ask for that.)

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 allright you'll see it in your details page.

* The user is cheating. (a.k.a. "Summary Ban")
* The server is overloaded and unresponsive. Just try to keep the session open until the server responds again. (Flooding the server with consecutive manual updates is not recommended.)
* You are using a faulty client. If you want to use an experimental or CVS version you do it at your own risk.

* If a torrent you are currently leeching/seeding is not listed on your profile, just wait or force a manual update.
* Make sure you exit your client properly, so that the tracker receives "event=completed".
* If the tracker is down, do not stop seeding. As long as the tracker is back up before you exit the client the stats should update properly.

Yes. The tracker now updates the stats correctly for all bittorrent clients. However, we still recommend that you avoid the following clients:
BitComet (all versions)
BitTorrent++,
Nova Torrent,
TorrentStorm.
Azureus/Vuse (sorry but blame the idiots that try and cheat the tracker lol@auto cheat script)
These clients do not report correctly to the tracker when canceling/finishing a torrent session. If you use them then a few MB may not be counted towards the stats near the end, and torrents may still be listed in your profile for some time after you have closed the client.

Also, clients in alpha or beta version should be avoided.

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.

Check out the forums

There may be three reasons for this:
(1) The torrent may have been out-of-sync with the site rules.
(2) The uploader may have deleted it because it was a bad release. A replacement will probably be uploaded to take its place.
(3) Torrents are automatically deleted after 28 days.

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.

(In 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.

Some of our torrents use ports other than the usual HTTP port 80. This may cause problems for some users, for instance those behind some firewall or proxy configurations. You can easily solve this by editing the .torrent file yourself with any torrent editor, e.g. MakeTorrent, and replacing the announce url love2leech.com:81 with total-bytes.com:80 or just love2leech.com

Editing the .torrent with Notepad is not recommended. It may look like a text file, but it is in fact a bencoded file. If for some reason you must use a plain text editor, change the announce url total-bytes.com:80, not total-bytes.com. (If you're thinking about changing the number before the announce url instead, you know too much to be reading this.)

Post in the Forums, by all means. You'll find they are usually a friendly and helpful place, provided you follow a few basic guidelines:

* Make sure your problem is not really in this FAQ. There's no point in posting just to be sent back here.
* Before posting read the sticky topics (the ones at the top). Many times new information that still hasn't been incorporated in the FAQ can be found there.
* Help us in helping you. Do not just say "it doesn't work!". Provide details so that we don't have to guess or waste time asking. What client do you use? What's your OS? What's your network setup? What's the exact error message you get, if any? What are the torrents you are having problems with? The more you tell the easiest it will be for us, and the more probable your post will get a reply.
* And needless to say: be polite. Demanding help rarely works, asking for it usually does the trick.