I have successfully setup my torrent server.
Only a few questions I want to fully understand.
My friend went to my torrent link on my webpage it worked for him.
He said the .torrent link opened up his bittorrent program.
Then he had to wait a few minutes before the torrent started downloading.
My question is their away to set the wait time before the download begins?
And another question is I portforwarded the tracker port I was using just in case I had to. I am wondering now if the tracker port has to be portforwarded to the public for the torrent file to start downloading because if not then I won't bother forwarding it in the router. But I am assuming it must for outside the lan computers to beable to use my torrent.
I believe port forwarding is only needed when people are trying to connect to me initially (if I am behind a router) . Not the other way around.
However when a bittorrant client opens up my torrent for the first time does the torrent file tell the program to go to the tracker and then the tracker does timesliceing/ round robin download transfers for the peers.
If so then the port that the tracker is running on must be public.
Also when I create a torrent file it has the torrent file listed under the seed in my client. If I deleted this torrent file in my client then would all the peers or people that are downloading the torrent data not beable to anymore.
Does the main guy that created the torrent file always have to keep that file under his seed for it to be availible for everybody. (unless ofcourse once somebody downloaded it 100% they could reseed it from their site. )
I am just curious about this question since alot of sites let you upload your torrent files but in those site's do you also upload the data with those site ?
Unless of course you had a tracker on your own computer that the uploaded torrent file pointed back to. But then these 3rd party sites would only have .torrant files and links to them .... then the bulk of the download would be give back to the original guys computer which I don't thing would be a good
idea in most cases
Maybe these 3rd party site just let you upload the .iso , files , folders ,...etc
And they have a program running to create the torrent for your uploads and point it to one of their trackers. Maybe not.
Anybody know and care to elaborate on how torrent trackers work....
Thanks
Anyway it all works.
Only a few questions I want to fully understand.
My friend went to my torrent link on my webpage it worked for him.
He said the .torrent link opened up his bittorrent program.
Then he had to wait a few minutes before the torrent started downloading.
My question is their away to set the wait time before the download begins?
And another question is I portforwarded the tracker port I was using just in case I had to. I am wondering now if the tracker port has to be portforwarded to the public for the torrent file to start downloading because if not then I won't bother forwarding it in the router. But I am assuming it must for outside the lan computers to beable to use my torrent.
I believe port forwarding is only needed when people are trying to connect to me initially (if I am behind a router) . Not the other way around.
However when a bittorrant client opens up my torrent for the first time does the torrent file tell the program to go to the tracker and then the tracker does timesliceing/ round robin download transfers for the peers.
If so then the port that the tracker is running on must be public.
Also when I create a torrent file it has the torrent file listed under the seed in my client. If I deleted this torrent file in my client then would all the peers or people that are downloading the torrent data not beable to anymore.
Does the main guy that created the torrent file always have to keep that file under his seed for it to be availible for everybody. (unless ofcourse once somebody downloaded it 100% they could reseed it from their site. )
I am just curious about this question since alot of sites let you upload your torrent files but in those site's do you also upload the data with those site ?
Unless of course you had a tracker on your own computer that the uploaded torrent file pointed back to. But then these 3rd party sites would only have .torrant files and links to them .... then the bulk of the download would be give back to the original guys computer which I don't thing would be a good
idea in most cases
Maybe these 3rd party site just let you upload the .iso , files , folders ,...etc
And they have a program running to create the torrent for your uploads and point it to one of their trackers. Maybe not.
Anybody know and care to elaborate on how torrent trackers work....
Thanks
Anyway it all works.
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