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Boost your torrent downloads with some tracker juice

1 Comments Friday, September 19, 2008

Everyone uses p2p networks these days. There's hardly a soul out there who haven't taken advantage of this, err..'controversial' technology to get hold of their favorites. Softwares, movies, music, ebooks you name it and the world of Bit-torrent has them in store for you. One of the terms closely associated with bit-torrent is "BitTorrent Tracker". These are servers that "Assist in the communication between peers using the BitTorrent protocol." In short, the bigger the number of active trackers, the smoother and faster your torrent downloads would be.

However, torrents have not been a pleasant source to scour for those suffering from bandwidth deficiencies like myself. To add insult to an injury, popular torrent files these days are riddled with Fake IPs/trackers jamming your peers. Sponsored by draconian media authorities like the MPAA and RIAA, they can cripple your download speed in a matter of minutes. What to do ...what to do?

Thankfully, there's a cleaver way to dodge some of these big-torrent smut. Basically, our technique would consist of finding extra trackers for our designated downloads and verifying which of them actually work. At the end, we'll end up with a sleaze-free torrent file filled with healthy, high-speec, active trackers :D Here's what you'll have to do:

1) Download your favorite torrent file. I recommend searching in hybrid indexers like Scrapetorrent that automatically searches several torrent hosts at ones and catagorizes the results according to the number of seeders:leechers (or whatever you wish).

2) Once the .torrent file is downloaded, head over to BtReannouncer. Upload the previously downloaded torrent file in the upload section. What the site does is find alternative trackers for your torrent meta file. These trackers are then shown along with the original trackers. Select the extra trackers you'd like to add to your new metafile on the screen shown below. Then press the "Reannounce" button.

3) Download the reannounced torrent file on the next screen

4) Now head over to Torrenteditor. This site does the hard work of finding obsolete trackers for you. Upload the reannounced torrent file in the first page and press the edit button. On the next screen, the "tracker verification" would start. Bad trackers are demarcated by a red highlight. Cross off bad-trackers on this step

5) Scroll down and click 'update'. After the good trackers are loaded onto your new torrent file, download the final fruit of your labor by pressing the "Download" button.

Thats it. Now you are left with a healthy torrent file free of all the scum of the world wide web. A disease free .torrent file like this can do wonders to your download speed.

Happy downloading !

1 Responses to “Boost your torrent downloads with some tracker juice”

Thanks man, this really helped. Can you upgrade your guide, as to telling us about anything that can be done to augment the modulus of our bittorrent download speeds? Like installing Peerguardian, increasing number of half-open concurrent connections etc.

Vendetta on 9/23/2008

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Ahoy, I'm Naser I Hossain, a student of Mechanical Engineering (from Bangladesh) currently studying in BUET with my fingers crossed. My serenade(!) of life includes DIY projects,hacking random pestilence, taking photographs,occasionally designing websites/pages and playing with Web 2.0 stuff to keep myself aesthetically appeased from time to time. I also listen to Jazz and Blues (like those of Bob Seger and Louis Armstrong) profusely. If my rants interest you in the least detail I'd advice you to stick around . Meanwhile, to stay updated subscribe to my blog feed. For those interested in a part passionate web-designer part freelance hacker, consider taking a look at my incomplete resumé ;)