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March 21st, 2005, 11:46 PM
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| Joined: Mar 4th, 2005 Last Online: September 29th, 2006 Location: 'uddersfield Posts: 170
Rep Power: 0   |  Trackers I've only just starting using bit torrent so I don't really know how it works.... I've got downloads to work by downloading .torrent files and starting them off in the bittorrent client, but what are trackers? If I just click the link for a tracker should anything happen or will internet explorer just start crying? Or are trackers lists of .torrent files or what? I'm confused! |
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March 22nd, 2005, 01:22 AM
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| Global Moderator  Joined: May 19th, 2004 Last Online: 10:31 PM Location: Hamburg, Germany Age: 26 Posts: 4,345
Car: Does a bicycle count? Rep Power: 47   | This is what Wikipedia says about Trackers: Downloading with BitTorrent is straightforward. Each person who wants to download the file first downloads the torrent and opens it in the BitTorrent client software. The torrent file tells the client the address of the tracker, which, in turn, maintains a log of which users are downloading the file and where the file and its fragments reside. For each available source, the client considers which blocks of the file are available, then requests the rarest block it does not yet have. This makes it more likely that peers will have blocks to exchange. As soon as the client finishes importing a block, it hashes it to make sure that the block matches what the torrent file said it should be. Then it begins looking for someone to upload the block to. The rest can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittorrent |
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March 22nd, 2005, 01:26 AM
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| Lazy Head Dude  Joined: Sep 21st, 2003 Last Online: 12:46 PM Location: Portland, Oregon Posts: 21,086
Car: Dodge Viper (I wish!) Rep Power: 237  | Wikipedia owns.
__________________ Fight back against the evil Quiky by +1'ing this post! There is no replacement for displacement. - Wolfgang Bernhard, Chief Operating Officer, Chrysler Group talking about the Dodge Viper SRT-10 ... I ask Herb Helbig, vehicle synthesis manager for SRT and a member of the original Team Viper development group since day one, if they'd ever thought of adding traction control. "It comes with two," he says, pointing at my feet. "Learn to use them." Got it. - Motor Trend on the 2006 Dodge Viper Coupe, November 2005 |
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March 22nd, 2005, 01:29 AM
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| Global Moderator Joined: May 19th, 2004 Last Online: 10:31 PM Location: Hamburg, Germany Age: 26 Posts: 4,345
Car: Does a bicycle count? Rep Power: 47 | It's a shame that only few people know about it. |
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March 22nd, 2005, 10:40 AM
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| Joined: Mar 4th, 2005 Last Online: September 29th, 2006 Location: 'uddersfield Posts: 170
Rep Power: 0 | Ahhh.... It's all so clear now, cheers! |
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