Seedr is a cloud downloader that downloads torrents for you and works
without any installation of any software. Seedr works rather in your
browser, and it is accessible on almost all display sizes, but unusual
sizes of monitors can hurt your experience since the responsive elements
of Seedr design are not flexible enough to deal with it. You can fix
their issue with changing size of your browser window to more casual
size which will bring order to elements on the main page. It is
important to do it quickly because, upon successful registration, the
page welcomes you by a tutorial that suffers most of these resize
problem.
How to insert a torrent
Adding torrent is possible via few methods. You can use magnet links
or links that point to the .torrent file. And if you have the .torrent
file downloaded to your computer, you can upload it to Seedr, to
download your content. Currently, you can not use info hashes for
starting your download. After adding your torrent file to Seedr queue,
the fetching phase will begin. By the nature of internet torrent
downloaders, your fetching is done entirely on different IP than yours.
Fetching is useful if you worry about your privacy, or you are IP
tracked by the third parties like your government or boss because your
IP won’t be shown during downloading at all.
First, the request for fetching happens, and then you are provided
with a direct link which leads to your file. In legal terms, you are
clear of any torrent activity, and you are never part of it. Speed of
fetching is a variable, that depends on a few key factors. Thanks to the
nature of torrenting, downloads are faster, if others downloaded as
well. These others are called seeders, and the act, when they “share”
parts of information back and forth, is called seeding. These seeds are
the real key factor, that you, as the end user, can influence by
downloading files with a high amount of them.
All about the speed
Fetching speed was tested on various files with different numbers of
seeds available at the time of downloading. The data with more than 200
seeds had an average download speed with its maximum in 1 MB per second,
which is excellent, and it is enough to download a movie file in a
couple of minutes. If you use a file with less number of seeds, your
speed will be lower, and using only ten seeds will lead to rate around
200 KB per second.
And then, there is a downloading to your computer, which depends on
the route your file must take, to get into your device. This route can
be explained as train rails, which sometimes need to change tracks on
stations (nodes). The number of changes multiplies at how hard it is to
download your file. Seedrs download speed will be in most cases an
average one, but in some instances (which have a harder route from
server to computer) like New Zealand or East Asia, you will experience
serious drop downs, which will make your downloading slower. It is
important to use a downloading manager if you want to download a larger
file (above 500 MB and higher) to experience minimum issues.
Features
Currently, there is no FTP/SFTP/FTPS or WebDAV access, which limits
the number of download managers you can use, and it slightly limits the
control you have over your files. Supported features that are not part
of core functionality can make you say “wow” if they manage to help you.
The main is a Chrome extension, which can simplify the whole adding
torrent process for you into only two or four clicks. You can try Seedr
service for free with their Free plan, which offers you 2 GB of storage,
no HD streaming, more waiting time with customer support, and an
antivirus scan. Premium plans have the only difference between offered
storage and price.
Conclusion
Seedr is
a useful tool with some potential, but there are better options. You
can have a look at who “won” the Gold, who claimed the Silver place for
them, and who shines with Bronze.
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