New user looking for some help

[F1restar]

Hey guys, I'm a new user on this website and I have 3 problems I need help with. I've been using torrents for a while but never quite understood them. All I knew is that leeching means downloading the files and seeding is helping other people download (and naturally, being the selfish person I am, I stopped all torrents after the download completed because I thought it would hurt my internet speed too much). By looking in the "trackers" section of my old torrents, as well as some ones I'm currently downloading, I found the bakabt website (I have no idea what trackers actually are...). So, I have 3 questions to ask about how to solve my torrenting problems, not about torrents and how they work (although some background info would be helpful too, in simple to understand newbie terms please )

1. My current download is not working, [OZC] Ghost in the shell 2nd GIG (not its exact name) -- I've looked up the "unregistered torrent pass" error and it tells me to redownload the torrent, so I logged in to this new account and redownloaded the torrent from isohunt and it is still not downloading but still shows upload speed. What do I do to solve this? When I redownload it and start the download again, it asks me to load the old trackers and I say yes.

2. I'd like to seed a previous torrent by [OZC], specifically the first season of GITS, but I get the same error -- "unregistered torrent pass". will it affect my seeding in any way or do I need to try to redownload the torrent?

3. About the ratios themselves -- is it based off of my ratio using bakabt, or my ratio from anywhere? Is it saved on the internet before I even register an account at a specific website or does it only start counting now that I use an account? Also, do i need to log into the website every time I want to download or seed something or does it recognize my IP immediately?

I am currently using utorrent.

Thanks for taking your time to read the (probably) silly questions of a newbie, but I really don't know anything about this stuff >< all help is appreciated! thank you!

[Al_Sleeper]

Please read the Wiki.

"unregistered torrent pass" - It means you have to download the torrent in question from BakaBT, not from isohunt or any other site.

Your ratio is based on your stats on BakaBT ONLY. All other sites are not taken into account.

Regarding your second question, http://wiki.bakabt.me/index.php/For_First_Timers#Re-seeding_Downloaded_Files_with_Different_Clients

[F1restar]

Please read the Wiki.

"unregistered torrent pass" - It means you have to download the torrent in question from BakaBT, not from isohunt or any other site.

Your ratio is based on your stats on BakaBT ONLY. All other sites are not taken into account.

I read that and I thought you only needed to redownload it from whereever you got it from before and it would work, I guess not. I will try this one, thanks for the fast reply.

Edit: thanks, everything is working smoothly. Regarding your link, the series i'm seeding already has a bakabt torrent, do I still need to follow those instructions?

[Freedom Kira]

It's the most failproof way, especially if you're a newbie. There's an advanced method you can use to get a BakaBT torrent to link to your account, if it isn't already, and it's not too difficult if you know what you're doing. For you I would recommend just following the reseeding guide.

[F1restar]

The methods you guys told me worked, but now I come across a different problem: my download doesn't update while my upload does. I originally downloaded a torrent from a different website but I redownloaded it from bakabt part-way through, yet I'm getting 0 for my downloaded amount on bakabt statistics. I'm pretty sure the seeds/peers were through bakabt as well because it was not connected to any other trackers. Is this normal? Do I need to be worried?

[Al_Sleeper]

It's normal. Both your torrents on BakaBT are freeleech. All 1080p torrents and all torrents less than 100 MB in size, as well as some other categories, are freeleech.

[F1restar]

It's normal. Both your torrents on BakaBT are freeleech. All 1080p torrents and all torrents less than 100 MB in size, as well as some other categories, are freeleech.

Oh, alright. Thanks again!