Hi, i got a couple of questions regarding torrents.
1) What does tracker do? What is it used for?
2) Does Bitcomet and UTorrent client have any differences? I
used bitcomet to dl a particular file which has only a seed, to try
out whether i could establish a connection, i couldnt. however for
Utorrent, i successfully did it. So are there any differences?
settings?
3) Prior to the 2nd question, does the ports make a difference
as well? Say, if i uploaded this torrent, and my ports is about
40000, the other person trying to download it has it at 50000, will
it affect the connection? Will it even establish a connection as
well?
Many Thanks in advance.
1. In short, to track users. In long, read the wiki.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_tracker
2. BitComet is banned by some trackers as it is notorious for
getting the users a high download speed even if they did not upload
anything. That may explain why you are unable to download the
torrent via BitComet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcomet#DHT_Exploit
3. No, it does not make a difference and would not affect the
possibility of establishing a connection with another user, unless
it is already in use by an application on your computer / the
computer on the other end. To be safe, avoid port numbers that are
already assigned to an existing protocol. A simple rule of thumb
would be to choose one that is between 50000 and 59999.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_numbers
