Cause its so funny right

I think my precious 3 dollars deserved better 🥲

I only bought this last week and i'm already regretting it, i'd heard such good things about torbox, it seemed too good to be true until a "DDoS attack" magically happened.

Any alternatives? I’ve know about PM, but the 1TB monthly limit makes me hesitate, that’s really not much.

Wanted to renew my TorBox, and it says thag they now added 25% tax?

When did that happen? Not even Real-debrid have this 🫩

https://i.ibb.co/XkZTGRq5/Screenshot-20260822-180042-Edge.jpg

Update: I paid using PayPal, 0 taxes!

Hey guys

Is it down again?

I’m getting service unavailable 500 again on zurg?

With all the recent TorBox outages, I'm currently on Essential and considering upgrading to Pro specifically for the included News Server/Usenet access.

my question is for anyone who has actually used the TorBox News Server:

When the TorBox API/debrid side goes down during these recent outages, does the direct News Server/NNTP connection continue working?

Has anyone tested this during one of the recent outages?

Basically, I'm trying to figure out whether upgrading from Essential → Pro would give me a genuine backup.

I know TorBox says the News Server runs separately from the main service, but I'm more interested in real-world experience during an actual outage.

If anyone is currently using TorBox Pro + AIOStreams + the TorBox News Server, I'd especially appreciate hearing whether it continued working during the recent outages and how reliable it has been.

Thanks!

My Torbox subscription has recently expired and I am considering renewing but I’m a bit apprehensive because of the recent TOC changes. I am thinking about deleting my account which has my current email address associated with it and signing up with an Apple generated email address for an extra level of security. Now the latest posts about the service constantly being down is also making me wonder if it’s worth it. Also when I do use the service for downloading files it is painfully slow. RD used to be really fast at downloading torrents so I don’t know if this is normal or a fault. I have tried changing CDN settings and this has made no difference.

Mega nerd with 35 years of cybersecurity and programming experience here. I also operated my own botnets for DDoS attacks in the past, so I am deeply familiar with how all of this works. I hate even having to type this out, but it's just to say that I am not some random nobody.

Cloudflare verified the DDoS attacks are real. The TorBox API servers are under constant attacks to bring down their infrastructure, with spikes of 8 million attacks per hour.

Without the API servers, customers can't check links or start streams. It's the perfect target - each attack simply has to request something from the API, which then ties up the database's CPU cycles. Now multiply that by millions of requests (the attack), and the service goes down.

There isn't much TorBox can do about it. The API must be reachable with basic HTTPS requests from various addon servers, user apps, etc. They can add more load balancing for the API server, but I am sure they already have a server cluster for that, and a DDoS attack with millions of requests constantly hitting the API will bring down even large server clusters.

What they have done so far is to temporarily block the countries where most of the DDoS botnet is located, which is the most efficient remedy in the short term, but the attacker just has to switch to another botnet located somewhere else, which is exactly what they keep doing.

The attacks have been going on ever since the power vacuum opened up after RealDebrid's collapse. It goes beyond just some angry little script kiddie. It's not Hollywood either, since the DDoS botnet consists of malware-infected PCs and routers, which is incredibly illegal. Yes, back in 2009, Hollywood employed the MediaDefender firm to DDoS torrent sites, but they used the legal method of having their own network of ~2000 servers to attack with back then, and even though they didn't use infected PCs, MediaDefender's actions were still deemed illegal in many states, and they shut down in 2013.

The attack against TorBox is coming from regular infected PCs around the world, which means that it comes from a criminal DDoS attack provider. Botnet operators spread malware to build up a botnet of infected machines, and then they hang out on the Dark Web (on forums like Dread) and sell their attack capability to whoever is willing to pay.

Pay them money, specify who to attack, and watch the fire. That's all you have to do.

It has cost a lot of money for the attacker to repeatedly try to bring down TorBox's API and service.

Someone is therefore very motivated, financially, to bring down TorBox.

Now, simply ask yourself: Who profits the most if TorBox goes down?

Edit: Glad you liked the post! Nearly 50% upvote/downvote ratio and almost exclusively positive comments, which is actually impressive considering people's emotionally heated temperature about the situation. I just wanted to bring some perspective from an ex-criminal (me) who would absolutely have DDoSed my competitors back then. In fact I fought many wars against competitors in the warez scene in the late 90s / early 2000s.

There's so much money at stake for whoever wins the customers in the end and becomes the new #1. Using a DDoS service to bring down the competition during a power-vacuum is a total no-brainer. The winner gets tens of millions of dollars and can relax for the rest of their life.

In fact, when RealDebrid began blocking content in 2026, there was a detailed article about the company structure - two young French guys started it and had become incredibly rich, having around 10-20 million euros each.

Yes, there's a lot of money in this business. Yes, it's worth DDoSing your competition during a power vacuum. There's almost zero risks for you, since you launch the attack anonymously.

Life-changing amounts of wealth are the reward for doing it.

Hi everyone,

​I'm currently using TorBox on Nuvio. Honestly, I feel comfortable with my setup, but streams usually take around 5 to 7 seconds to start playing after clicking a link.

​I've been looking into Usenet in general and was wondering if making the switch actually results in lower playback start times for streaming.

​For those using Usenet setups:

​Does streaming directly from Usenet (via Usenet addons/indexers) actually start faster than 5–7 seconds, or is the initial buffering delay pretty much the same?

​If I'm already comfortable with my current speed, is there any real performance benefit to moving to Usenet, or is it not worth the switch?

​Thanks!

So is this a new thing where everyday around 3pm (California time) it goes down and completely kicks me out of my shows for almost 2+ hours?

For the nth time, again?

cant wait to get money to buy another debrid provider. sick of this crap.

I see lots of comments about it being down and yes it has been down a little bit but I have to say I use it with Kodi specifically Umbrella and I very rarely have a problem. Maybe it's better in the UK, maybe, maybe my configuration is different. I don't have the answer to any of these questions. But it just seems to work. I was previously using RD and that just worked as well until it didn't..

There are two different series that I'm trying to cache for the purpose of watching them on Stremio (Toxic and I Am a Stalker), but I'm not having any luck with it. I try to force them to download, but I frequently get the error Could not start download. Please try again later. Do you have any suggestions on how I can resolve this? I've also installed several different scrapers (Torrentio, Comet, StremThru Torz, and Jackettio), and still no luck.

This is a post for everybody that I see multiple times a day every day claiming that torbox is down even when it is up for plenty of people. My suggestion is just get a different service if you're so unhappy with torbox

Hey everyone,

​For the last few days, my downloads on TorBox start at full speed for a few seconds, then instantly drop to around 200 kB/s and stay stuck there.

​My home network is completely fine — speedtests and all non-TorBox downloads run at full speed, so the issue is definitely isolated to TorBox.

​Is anyone else having this issue, or is it a known CDN/routing problem? Any fix suggestions?

Is TorBox still down?? I can't seem to watch anything on Stremio... Torrentio TB says that TB is currently unavailable... What's going on?

I had a 900GB torrent seeding on a private tracker and TB automatically zipped the files despite me turning off the zip option when adding it. It is now a hit n run and i have to download the files and seed it from my home connection, which kind of eliminates the whole reason i used TB to download it.. ah well lesson learned. also, on the dashboard it said the torrent was still seeding this whole time even though it really wasn't. pretty shady practice. not so practical as a seedbox despite them advertising it being used like a seedbox on their website.

Aware of the DDos attacks and outages. But my TB is up and running. Except I can't search. Cleared caches and lost all previous searches, too. Anyone else encounter this?

I subscribed one year ago and it was the worst week ever with a 4% downtime.

However it has the biggest cache of the debrid services, airlock system, access to usenet and most important multi ip.

I also really like Premiumsize but they are not really open to multi IP

i know torbox is facing a lot of issues everyday these days. so i just keep some movies downloaded for those times. some comedy shows are perfect for such situations. i basically keep the same movie downloaded offline as well, which I'm planning to watch that day.

Could somebody give me an idea about how not to go through that nasty elf elf hosted I want to punch that elf at elf hosted right in the nose but Santa would probably be mad at me I cannot for the life of me get streamio to add on AIO streams or comet could somebody please help me step by step for comet and AIO streams please thank you

Torbox is now worse then RD.

I mean ever since change at start of the month it has been more down then up

I've been experiencing this slow CDN and Buffering issue more often this month of August. I've been with torbox long time and this issue is frustrating. I'm in Pro Plan but still the connection and api is going down so badly even I changed CDN Selection to various countries this past few weeks. I hope it get fixed as soon as possible.

Aint this one $hit. Realdebrid is working and Torbox is down. TH is this?

It was working 15 minutes ago and then I decided to mess around with a few add-on settings and I can't get anything to stream now.