Comments on: BTGuard Anonymizing Service: Is it worth it?

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 03:11:30 +0000

Except that the seedbox can be linked directly to you. It provides no anonymity at all.

By: Maisey

Maisey — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:46:55 +0000

What VPN were you using??

By: Tyler

Tyler — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 04:47:55 +0000

You may not be able to hide how much you are downloading to your ISP, but using a VPN allows you to mask what you are downloading, so it’s good for people who have an ISP that throttles their P2P traffic. I was with Virgin internet here in Australia, and although you may get 3mbps speed, with P2P traffic, it’s reduced to 5kbps. Using a VPN, I was able to mask my traffic which allowed me to use bandwidth that is normally given to my connection. Never tried BTGuard though

By: AledE

AledE — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:05:34 +0000

The most shocking customer service I’ve ever received.

I purchased the BTGuard service a week ago and couldn’t get it to work at all on my PC (Windows 7 – uTorrent). I emailed them asking for help and they were less than helpful.

I’ve been hounding them for a refund for the past few days and have been sent the most unhelpful and downright rude emails I have ever received from a professional business.

The last email they sent was an aggressive all-caps message telling me I “clearly hadn’t read their emails properly”. (All of their emails to this point had been nothing but half-assed, one-line replies).

Seriously, stay away from BTGuard, their service doesn’t work, their attitude stinks and I’m sorry I trusted them with my money. I just hope I can get it back.

By: SteveG

SteveG — Sat, 29 May 2010 11:44:56 +0000

See – http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Seedbox&aq=f&aqi=g6g-s1g3&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

Also – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seedbox

By: SteveG

SteveG — Sat, 29 May 2010 11:43:40 +0000

Why even use a service like this that you have to pay for? A subscription to a seedbox provides a lot better value. The seedbox host does the downloading of the torrent for you as well as the seeding of your downloaded files – all completely separate from your computer or network. Then you download the files whenever you like directly to your computer without using torrenting at all. PLUS you can leave the file on the seed host, seeding to everyone else at massive speeds and thus you quickly achieve your goal in upload ratios.

By: AllWindowsHacks

AllWindowsHacks — Wed, 19 May 2010 04:02:47 +0000

This service could theoretically work; however, the realities behind how internet service is provided, cause this to be both illogical and impossible, not to mention impractical, for such a service to even exist in today’s society. I wrote up a quick post about this on my own blog as a result of seeing this company pop up – you might want to read what I have to say. I just made up the blog a few days ago and hopefully I’ll find the time to keep adding useful info in the future.

By: Doc

Doc — Mon, 17 May 2010 03:38:45 +0000

Why anyone would use this I don’t know. It would be much safer and faster to use a seedbox with a reputable company in a country that does not consider uploading a crime (Canada does).

By: fishman

fishman — Mon, 03 May 2010 21:59:22 +0000

I just signed up. cause my download speeds in the last 2-3 weeks are down big time.

they dont tell u that only v 2.0 or utorrent is pre configured. so unless u know a lot about networks etc, just use v2.0 that comes with it. and forget about other version.

my download speeds have multiplied by 5 ! so im a happy camper..

fishman.

trust them? who can u trust ?

By: gazzer16

gazzer16 — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:18:30 +0000

If BTGuard on gives out a false IP address, wouldn’t it work the same way as the small aplications that you can get on the internet like “hide my ip”? I’m sure I have seen many more around like “Hide my IP”. I’ve never used BTGuard, but I was thinking of signing up for it, but now I’m not so sure.