Jumangi Posted August 9, 2006 Report Share Posted August 9, 2006 When you download a torrent from a site and start getting/sharing the file are you doing it with all people at once or just the people who also got the torrent file from that site. Meaning are there multiple groups of peers/seeders of say the same [specifics removed] at once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geezer Posted August 9, 2006 Report Share Posted August 9, 2006 Classically, it was determined by the tracker pointed to by the URL in the .torrent file. You downloaded the .torrent file, your client connected to the tracker, and the tracker responded with a list of peers for your client to connect to. But these days the answer is complicated by things like DHT and peer exchange. You can have trackerless torrents.What it boils down to is that a torrent is uniquely identified by the hash of the "info" section of the .torrent file. That hash does NOT include the URL of the tracker (if any) listed in the .torrent file. You can have two different .torrent files which point to two different trackers but as long as the hash of the "info" section is the same, it's still considered the same torrent. That hash is what your client uses to identify the torrent to a tracker or to the DHT network.Someone please correct me if any of the above is wrong.You can read more about this stuff here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrenthttp://www.bittorrent.org/protocol.htmlThere used to be a great description of the protocol at the URL below but it seems to have vanished. Anyone know if it has been posted somewhere else?http://wiki.theory.org/BitTorrentSpecification Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naga Posted August 9, 2006 Report Share Posted August 9, 2006 i dont know how to use utorrent? please help me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geezer Posted August 9, 2006 Report Share Posted August 9, 2006 naga, start here:http://www.utorrent.com/beginners-guide.phpThen check out the rest of the guides on the following page (the link above is the first guide):http://www.utorrent.com/guides.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Determination Posted August 9, 2006 Report Share Posted August 9, 2006 and refrain from hyjacking threads... x_x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuttynatalie2006 Posted August 17, 2006 Report Share Posted August 17, 2006 im new on torrent and i cant get it to downlaod ..... when i get it to downlaod it says its going to take weeks and weeks and then it crashes also i dont get the red or green light????? what am i doing wrong??????????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Determination Posted August 17, 2006 Report Share Posted August 17, 2006 gah, no more hijacks! Read some of the links in my sig, namely the "What is BT?" and "How do I setup?" sections. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karen151 Posted February 13, 2007 Report Share Posted February 13, 2007 how can you change to engish please help me thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karen151 Posted February 13, 2007 Report Share Posted February 13, 2007 hi i am new in here but everything is coming up in french where can i go and change it i have been looking but nothing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted February 13, 2007 Report Share Posted February 13, 2007 When you first go into the µTorrent preferences, press up and down on your keyboard. See the option changing? Look for English on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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