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trackers - useful or useless?
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Au³+
2015-01-31 04:48:16 UTC
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[DHT], [Local Peer Discovery], and [Peer Exchange] do most of the work and are most reliable. Trackers are optional in most cases, except some private torrents may require them.

I'm seeding 29 torrents at present and only the following 2 trackers are working:
udp://open.demonii.com:1337
udp://open.demonii.com:1337/announce
I like these demonii trackers because they tell how many total downloads have been performed, but none of the others do. They also usually find all (or most) of the seeds and peers.

None of the following trackers are working for me:
udp://tracker.btzoo.eu:80/announce
udp://tracker.istole.it:80/announce
udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80/announce
udp://tracker.publicbt.com:80
udp://tracker.publicbt.com:80/announce
I've had some activity from a few in the latter group occasionally, but not lately. I conclude they're dead or pretty much useless, so have deleted all. It seems to me they're a waste of bandwidth. Maybe it's coincidental, but looks like my leechers are getting more data throughput now...

So what trackers are working for you (if any)?
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Auric
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2016-04-23 00:47:47 UTC
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Post by Au³+
[DHT], [Local Peer Discovery], and [Peer Exchange] do most of the
work and are most reliable. Trackers are optional in most cases, except
some private torrents may require them.
 
udp://open.demonii.com:1337
udp://open.demonii.com:1337/announce
I like these demonii trackers because they tell how many total downloads
have been performed, but none of the others do. They also usually find all (or
most) of the seeds and peers.
 
udp://tracker.btzoo.eu:80/announce
udp://tracker.istole.it:80/announce
udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80/announce
udp://tracker.publicbt.com:80
udp://tracker.publicbt.com:80/announce
I've had some activity from a few in the latter group occasionally, but not
lately. I conclude they're dead or pretty much useless, so have deleted
all. It seems to me they're a waste of bandwidth. Maybe it's coincidental,
but looks like my leechers are getting more data throughput now...
 
So what trackers are working for you (if any)?
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Auric
 
 
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