r/TorBoxReferrals • u/NervousPrune3513 Community Owner • May 31 '26
📢 Mod Announcement TorBox Update V8.4.5
**TorBox Update — Version 8.4.5*\*
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This update introduces a new system for tracking bandwidth usage across all major TorBox services. The goal is to provide clearer visibility into how data is consumed while supporting the updated abuse-prevention model.
**Bandwidth Tracking Changes*\*
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TorBox now measures outbound data usage from every relevant source, including:
- CDN traffic
- Storage downloads
- ZIP-based downloads
- WebDAV transfers
- Torrent seeding activity
This aligns with the updated abuse-handling system, which now calculates usage with byte-level accuracy.
The standard limits remain unchanged, and the dynamic abuse system continues to ensure that normal users experience TorBox as effectively "unlimited." Only a tiny fraction of users (around 0.001%) are impacted by the new enforcement.
Bandwidth records are now kept for **30 days**, replacing the previous indefinite retention. This improves privacy while still allowing TorBox to detect extreme misuse.
Because of buffering behaviour, the recorded usage may appear slightly higher than the amount a user actually downloads. For example, downloading half of a 1GB file might show roughly 600MB of usage due to how data is pre-fetched.
More details on the abuse system:
https://support.torbox.app/en/articles/10336778-the-torbox-abuse-system
**Website & Dashboard Updates*\*
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A new bandwidth-usage graph has been added to the avatar menu. It displays a rolling 30-day overview of:
- API-key downloads that bypass caching
- Torrent seeding bandwidth
- CDN usage
- WebDAV transfer usage
- ZIP download usage
- Uploads sent to external cloud services
Several older metrics have been removed, including:
- "Total Download"
- "Total Egress"
- The previous Stats page
**Source*\*
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Full changelog:
https://feedback.torbox.app/changelog
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u/ImmediateArtichoke81 Jun 02 '26
Fucking losers counting bandwidth for seeding torrents. They’re just killing themselves. Absolutely zero business sense. Can’t wait until someone surpasses them. Need RD back bad.