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- | ==== I've just finished my torrent download. What are the files in the download? (e.g. so many numbered files, .iso, etc) ==== | ||
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- | ==== What is “rubbish data” and why am I downloading so much of it? ==== | ||
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- | Rubbish data or garbage data, is a term used to describe, in the BitTorrent scene, downloaded [[peers_seeds_torrent_tracker_dht_peer_exchange_pex_magnet_links# | ||
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- | **Possible causes** | ||
- | - Rubbish data is basically caused by peers sending bad packets to the swarm. Whether intentionally or unintentionally, | ||
- | - Another more prosaic reason for occurrences of garbage data might be your router. Certain routers are known to have a particular firmware implementation which may lead to corrupt data, especially on BitTorrent downloads (which by definition use a huge number of simultaneous connections). A good indicator for this, is getting garbage data for all or most of your torrents. | ||
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- | **Solutions** | ||
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- | - The only solution, so far, to this problem is to download an IP-blocking program (such as Peer Guardian: http:// | ||
- | - In order to verify if your router is the cause of your trouble, you should try and take the router out of the loop, if possible, or if the modem and router are integrated try to replace it for testing purpose. Then run your BitTorrent client for a while and check if you get the same average amount of garbage data (some rubbish data may still come for reasons described in paragraph 1).\\ Also you might try updating your router' | ||
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- | ==== What are Private and Public Trackers? ==== | ||
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- | **The difference between Private Trackers & Public Trackers.** | ||
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- | It's important to understand that BitTorrent is a network completely different from [[wp> | ||
- | **Public trackers** are [[peers_seeds_torrent_tracker_dht_peer_exchange_pex_magnet_links# | ||
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- | * Users with hacked torrent clients or clients with add-ons are able to optimize their own download capabilities at the cost of the swarm of peers in your torrent download. | ||
- | * Seeders (users who hold the complete torrent file set) have no obligation (other than the moral one) to continue uploading their data to peers. So the seeders to peers ratio is many times extremely low. | ||
- | * Leechers have no obligation (other than the moral one) to keep uploading (seeding) as soon as their download is completed. | ||
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- | i.e.: isohunt.com, | ||
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- | Private Trackers are tracker URLs which are private, users must register at their home site to be able to access both this site's torrents and tracker: | ||
- | * A download to upload ratio is in place for every single user who registers at that site. With that users' download to upload ratio, the site controls and monitors the seeding behavior of the trackers users. Anyone whose share ratio drops below a certain preset value (which is clearly mentioned and made known at sign up time) is usually automatically banned or at least issued a warning threating with a ban. The user will have to fix his/her share ratio (if given a second chance) before being able to access other torrents via the site's tracker. | ||
- | * People with constant bad D:U ratio will be kicked off the site | ||
- | * All users within that private torrent community can enjoy downloading the latest releases of movies, games, programs, applications, | ||
- | * The tracker URL embedded in the .torrent file, uses a personalized passkey for the user so as to prevent access to the mass of public to the tracker. | ||
- | * All .torrent files use the private flag, thus disabling in all clients all the additional methods for gaining peers or sharing torrents ([[inside_bitcomet# | ||
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- | ==== What can I do about tracker errors when I start a task? ==== | ||
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- | In my trackers --> Status tab, I'm seeing errors like Can't connect to tracker (110004), waiting 1800s to retry, or Can not resolve host address [Shown below]: | ||
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- | **Solution** | ||
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- | Unfortunately there isn't any solution to this issue, because it is the tracker itself that's down or unavailable. Try stopping and restarting the torrent download, to try and re-connect to the trackers. If the trackers are all unresponsive, | ||
- | If your Internet connection is configured to redial if the line is dropped (meaning if your Internet connection disconnects, | ||
- | If the tracker gives the status: "Can not resolve host address." | ||
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- | Registration at Demonoid.com and torrentbox.com will also allow you to use their torrent trackers.\\ | ||
- | BitComet' | ||
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- | ==== How do I create a .torrent file? How do I seed it? ==== | ||
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- | The easiest way is to "Drag & Drop" the file or directory to the BitComet window. You can also go to //File >> Create a Torrent...// | ||
- | Fill in the fields. | ||
- | * If you do not use "Drag & Drop", the source file entry is empty and needs to be filled: In the General tab, choose Single file or Directory (Multi-Files). Click Browse to point to the file or directory. | ||
- | * Put in the announce URL in Tracker Server box. It can usually be found on the Upload page of a tracker. | ||
- | * (Optional) In the next box, the piece size can be chosen. It is recommended leaving it on " | ||
- | * (Optional) Check the " | ||
- | * (Optional) In the " | ||
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- | Hit OK. Start seeding the task.\\ | ||
- | Note: When you have made a .torrent file, you must publish the torrent on a torrent index | ||
- | site. And please make sure BitComet is started and seeding the task, so that others can | ||
- | download from you once they saved the .torrent file. | ||
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- | For more info see **[[making_torrents_with_bitcomet|Making torrents with BitComet]]**. | ||
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- | ==== How do I configure a torrent for Multi-Trackers when I create one? ==== | ||
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- | Refer to [[making_torrents_with_bitcomet# | ||
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