WinstonSmith6079 Posted October 5, 2010 Report Share Posted October 5, 2010 I've never made a private torrent before--I don't know how! No prob with public torrents, have made lots of those, but now I wanna make some private ones.I'm trying to follow the instructions on this tutorial page:http://www.bootstrike.com/Articles/CreateTorrent/I've started reading under the heading there that reads "Using uTorrent's Built-In Tracker". I'm having trouble with step #2. It reads:2. Check that your port is opened properly by entering your port number below and clicking Submit.Um, where do I get this number to fill in there? I don't know what my port number is!Please help!... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moogly Posted October 5, 2010 Report Share Posted October 5, 2010 Use a public tracker announce like http://tracker.openbittorrent.com/announce and check the private flag. Then send the private .torrent file to your trusted peers. It's more simple and you're sure to have a reliable tracker to announce. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted October 5, 2010 Report Share Posted October 5, 2010 ...Uh, assuming that tracker is actually reliable. Lots of the "popular" public open trackers (that allow any torrent hash) are currently overloaded much of the time.Try one of these trackers:http://torrent-download.to:5869/announcehttp://tracker.prq.to/announcehttp://tracker.irc.su/announcehttp://tracker.token.ro/announce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moogly Posted October 5, 2010 Report Share Posted October 5, 2010 OBT/PBT are working right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinstonSmith6079 Posted October 16, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2010 Okay, I tried that.I created the torrent with the first tracker mentioned and sent it to some guy. It took a while to say that it was working on my end and not offline. Meanwhile I added the next two trackers. The second also said offline, but the third said "working" as soon as I added it. I then removed the second, sent the third URL to the guy. He says he added it and that both URLs reported working on his end as well, but did not turn up 1 seeder on his end, though it did on mine, but no peers though.I'm using the latest version of µTorrent, and that guy claims he's using the same.Help! Help! HELP ME! :'(( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moogly Posted October 16, 2010 Report Share Posted October 16, 2010 Do both of you have the green network icon in the status bar of µT? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinstonSmith6079 Posted October 16, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2010 Hmm, I didn't think to ask him that. However I, myself, have that little green circle with the little white check-mark in it on the bottom-center of my µTorrent interface.Ehh, that guy's not terribly...attentive anyway. It's like maybe I need to find somebody else with which to conduct this "experiment". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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