Separate trackers with empty line

[Schism85]

The site I use to search multiple torrent sites handily makes a list of all trackers serving the torrent. I usually download the .torrent file, and then paste this list of trackers into the torrent properties, boosting the number of peers I get. Problem is I then have to go through and add empty lines in between each entry, and as the list is usually 30+ entries it takes a bit of time. I was wondering if the empty line requirement is for a specific reason, or if it could be omitted so that this lazy man can just copy and paste! Thanks for any views on this.

[DreadWingKnight]

adding more trackers does not actually give you better speeds, and increasing the number of peers does not necessarily give you better speeds.

[Honeyfrog]

If your torrent is DHT-enabled, you really only need a couple.

[Schism85]

Cheers for the replies. I thought about whether DHT removes any benefit of doing this, but for some reason I always get a lot more available peers if I add all trackers manually. As to whether this adds more speed is debatable, but I find that if the torrent has few peers to start with I'll often get the couple extra peers that makes all the difference. Even on a busy torrent, the extra seeds often improves the rate a bit too.

[Ultima]

Coincidence.

As for the empty lines...

http://wiki.depthstrike.com/index.php/P2P:Protocol:Specifications:Multitracker

[zcjtt95]

Wierd 'cos I always add trackers manually and find seed number jumps up/dl speed increases. Only when stats for one tracker are different from other obviously.

Is the idea of DHT to find people on other trackers then?

[Ultima]

The idea behind DHT is to eliminate the single point of failure that plagues many torrents using a single tracker. DHT acts as a backup tracker, though it can sorta join swarms from different trackers as an added side-effect.

[Honeyfrog]

With DHT enabled, you can post a torrent with a single known dead tracker, and be able to trade. (If all trackers are dead, an index site won't be able to scrape any seed/peer numbers, however, meaning it's hard to "advertise" the torrent.)

[Ultima]

Interestingly, some torrent indexing sites actually do connect to DHT to "scrape" (they probably announce and count the number of returned seeds/peers). Or at least I've seen it before.