dan44762000 Posted August 25, 2007 Report Share Posted August 25, 2007 what is dht and how does it affect my utorrent client ?do i need to have it on ?and what happens if i disable it ?i read somewhere that it should be turned off...all help much appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted August 27, 2007 Report Share Posted August 27, 2007 DHT is a distributed tracker, almost like a backup in case a public tracker you're using goes down. If you disable it, you lose any chance of getting seeds/peers where a tracker goes down. The number of UDP packets it generates can take down some people's networking hardware, because they incorrectly identify the packets as "connections" and thus, add toward the total connection count's limit. If you hit the limit, your router will simply refuse to open any new connections until another connection closes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
refaelsh Posted August 28, 2007 Report Share Posted August 28, 2007 The number of UDP packets it generates can take down some people's networking hardware ---> So, if am not sure about the good quality of my router (in fact I am pretty sure - it's crap - it is given for free to the clients of my ISP) I should turn it off?So, this may be the reason for trackers always being reported as offline (timed out) by uTorrent?But if I disable it, would I still get the same amount of peers/seeds as I would with it, so that my download speed would not be effected? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honeyfrog Posted August 28, 2007 Report Share Posted August 28, 2007 You can have my DHT when you pry it out of my cold, dead hands.If I learned that my router was puking on DHT packets, I'd slapshot that sucker into the nearest dumpster, then head down to the MicroCenter with a c-note in my fist for something that didn't suck.DHT is the best thing that ever happened to bittorrent technology, and I'll never create a .torrent file with the feature turned off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted August 30, 2007 Report Share Posted August 30, 2007 @refaelsh: The number of seeds/peers has no direct influence on the speed, so disabling it should be fine if you don't need/want it, or can't use it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calamity Posted August 30, 2007 Report Share Posted August 30, 2007 @Honeyfrog:AMEN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honeyfrog Posted August 30, 2007 Report Share Posted August 30, 2007 If my torrents survive the coming sandvine shatstorm, it'll be because they're DHT enabled. If they were marketed "Private" and posted to a single site, half of them would be dead or on life-support already (and, if I posted them only to Demonoid, which has regularly changing announce URLs, they'd eventually be auto-deleted and there'd be no way to reseed partially-completed peers using the old .torrent file with obsolesced announces). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calamity Posted August 30, 2007 Report Share Posted August 30, 2007 Again, amen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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