lbjack Posted February 25, 2008 Report Share Posted February 25, 2008 Half the trackers in my torrent are dead, and it seems like my client is wasting time by continuously cycling through them. (One is "unreachable," the other two are demonoid ports.) I was wondering if I can speed up the download by going into the .torrent file and removing these dead trackers, so my client won't waste time cycling through them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewelisheaven Posted February 25, 2008 Report Share Posted February 25, 2008 Uhm, to remove trackers you just right click and go to properties. There is no "waste" of anything. The cycling happens every gui.update_rate (Ctrl-P -> Advanced). In 1.8 this is "better" handled by showing all trackers simultaneously on their own tab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lbjack Posted February 25, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2008 Yeah, just found I could do that in properties. Looks like it's trying to connect with each tracker on the list in sequence, so if it's trying to connect with a dead tracker it's wasting time. Of course, if it keeps downloading while it polls the next tracker, it doesn't matter. The basic question is whether having a bunch of dead trackers in a torrent file slow the download. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewelisheaven Posted February 25, 2008 Report Share Posted February 25, 2008 I feel like I answered this before... deja vu. Nope The list updates based upon the GUI. No communication happens until the timers hit 0:00. Trackers send peerlists, they don't control at all who you connect to or how fast you download. Perhaps reading more about bittorrent (Guides page link #2) and checking through BTFaq.com can answer some other questions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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