If your channel is wide enough, the solution to this problem is obvious. However, if you are a happy owner of the so-called "gray IP" - the answer of our era to the stupidity of IP developers, an asymmetric channel or other upload restrictions, this material is for you.
Those who come across private torrent trackers online for the first time are often confused by the abundance of incomprehensible terms. But in fact, everything is simple here. Now I will do a little educational program.
To download a torrent, you need to register on the tracker and download the torrent file of the desired distribution. Then start the client and open the file in it. Torrent started. The downloaded torrent is distributed at the same time - connecting peers can both download parts of the torrent from you, and give it to you, or even do it at the same time (if you have different parts). After the download is complete, you automatically start distributing the torrent. The statistics of your work is constantly transmitted to the tracker and creates a rating for you.
To create a torrent yourself, you need to generate a torrent file using the client, specifying the desired content and trackers, upload the torrent file to the tracker and provide it with a description.
Unfortunately, on many trackers there is a so-called "rating system" that does not allow those whose channel has certain restrictions to download torrents. We will talk about it now. In fact, the rating system is not part of the BitTorrent technology, but a boring crutch designed to incentivize peers to download less and distribute more, thereby increasing the efficiency of the P2P network. The fact is that many people do not care about giving away, but only remember torrents when they want to download something, even if their technical capabilities allow seeding. Such a thing as rating encourages peers to give away at least as much as they downloaded. The downside of the rating is that peers with a bad channel often lose the opportunity to download anything at all. Fortunately,
Passkey. Most trackers require you to register an account in order to access torrents. A rating is also attached to this account. To identify an account on a tracker, the so-called "passkey" is often used - an identifier located in torrent files downloaded from the tracker and transmitted by the client along with statistics. By replacing your passkey with someone else's, you can download files on behalf of someone else's account. Often, irresponsible users post torrent files with their passkey in the public domain. Passkey is in the torrent file in open form and can be replaced by any binary editor. There are also special viewers and editors for torrent files (google).
Registration. Most trackers give each new account a small rating limit (several gigabytes), so that once this limit is reached, you can create a new account. In this case, it is advisable to use an anonymous proxy, because. multiple accounts created from the same address may arouse suspicion.
Download without tracker. When downloading, the client sends statistics to the tracker from time to time and updates the list of seeds. As a rule, many seeds work long enough to earn a rating. Some distribute around the clock. Therefore, in fact, frequent updating of the list of seeds is not required. By disabling the tracker in the client, you can avoid taking into account the rating. The download will go from the existing set of seeds, but new seeds will not be added (unless DHT is used). If the list of seeds needs to be updated, delete the torrent from the client (in this case, undownloaded files will remain) and run it again, specifying the same folder to save the files. The client will pick up the under-downloaded files and continue downloading from the interrupted position, when the torrent is launched, the list of seeds will be updated. Attention! No need to re-add the tracker to the running torrent - statistics over time, in which the download was carried out without a tracker will be taken into account. To disable a tracker in uTorrent, you need to select the torrent, open the "trackers" tab (under the list of downloads) and delete the corresponding line. You only need to remove the main tracker (or trackers), you do not need to disable the local retracker or DHT.
DHT. This method is similar to the previous one, but simpler. If DHT is available for the torrent, then when downloading without a tracker, the list of seeds will be updated. In uTorrent, DHT is listed in the same way as trackers in the list of trackers. In order for DHT to work, you need to have multiple peers that also support DHT. So you shouldn't turn off the tracker immediately after starting the torrent - you need to wait until the tracker transmits several peers and the information transfer begins.
Retracker. Large local networks often have their own tracker to help the main one find peers on the local network. If your tracker list has a line like retracker.local, then you will find peers in your local network without the help of the main tracker or DHT.
Cheating. Using special programs, you can transfer any work statistics to the tracker. But keep in mind that it should be similar to the statistics of real work. A peer that seems to be distributing several terabytes per second is likely to be banned.
Pay attention, P2P technology of the future. No need to sabotage trackers unnecessarily. If you have the opportunity, it is better to honestly follow the rules of the tracker.
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