It’s been quite a long time since I used Seedr (https://www.seedr.cc), and here is my experience.
Why Seedr
Torrenting a movie is forbidden, as we all know, which results in FBI warning or something worse from your ISP. So the thought of clouding torrent occurred to me. That is to say, the cloud seeds via BT and once it’s done, I can download the file from cloud via HTTP. That’s how seedr works.
At first I googled several cloud torrenting service providers, and seedr, with an obvious ad label marked at the top of search results, draw my attention, and I gave it a try in 2018.
Compared to some other torrenting providers I tried mostly at the same period, such as FileStream and Bitport, 2GB Seedr providing for free users is considerably sufficient because they only offer 1GB at most for free users. We know that a 720p or 1080p movie is usually around 1.5GB or 2GB if the quality is at least acceptable. Obviously Seedr is the best choice.
User Interface
Experience
Seedr supports both magnet and torrent.
The experience is good, ad-free, and what’s more amazing is that you can earn free space by inviting friends, posting blogs, following pinterest and twitter, up to 4Gb at most. That helps a lot since a better quality movie is usually more than 3GB and that solves the problem a bit.
earn free space
Speed
The speed is pretty fast. If a torrent has been downloaded before, I believe it’s stored in the cloud and thus you don’t have to wait for fetching files and just directly download it from the cloud. Mostly a YIFI torrent is instantly accessible, none of which has resulted in waiting as many times as I’ve tried. If a torrent happens to download, you just leave it and have a cup of tea. The speed is okay if it’s not dead.
Free users are allowed to keep it downloading for 3 hours, but if it fails to completely download you may cancel it and restart from the very beginning. It doesn’t bother me since it only happens few times if the torrent has good tracks and seeders.
Cloud torrenting speed when fetching files
The downloading speed is unlimited, and it’s extremely fast. A 2GB file would be completed within 5 minutes.
local download speed from Seedr
One more thing
Sadly it currently doesn’t support to choose what to download in a torrent file. So if a torrent contains several videos up to 6GB, but each video is merely 1GB, you may fail to fetch them. Usually packed TV episodes can’t do because of this.
Free users like me would appreciate it were it improved.