honestly... I don't know what a tracker is, I just click the magnet button and qBitTorrent just downloads it
Is there something more I should be doing?
this post was submitted on 25 Mar 2025
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Completed a torrent I was downloading for almost 2 years by adding trackers from this list. It helps!
Is there a way to use this in a more automated way instead of copying and pasting each time?
That's a waste of time. The torrent already comes included with the needed trackers.
I disagree. There have been many times I've been able to find at least one peer for torrents that otherwise would never complete. Besides, how much time is copy and pasting really wasting?
If you are gonna do that you might as well change your torrent client settings to automatically include the extra trackers.
Oh, good idea, then there wouldn't be any time wasted ;)
Just don't do it if you use any private trackers.
I'm fairly certain that you could get banned if you put public trackers on a torrent from a private tracker.
Private trackers generally will flag their torrents as private, allowing only their tracker to connect. But yes, better safe than sorry.
I don't have direct answer to the question, but I generally don't add public trackers to my (public) torrents. DHT/PEX usually works fine for me for finding seeds on the occasion that I do need something from public torrent sites.
I wonder whether adding additional trackers only increases the speed in which peers are found or whether it also substantially increases the likelihood of finding peers.
I wonder whether adding additional trackers only increases the speed in which peers are found or whether it also substantially increases the likelihood of finding peers.
One begets the other, although your mileage may vary
Whatever shows up here: https://newtrackon.com/list
Only lists trackers submitted that are online with a 95% uptime.
I don't do that anymore. I just use a Debrid service and enjoy consistent 1Gbps download speeds.
What is the point of adding other public tracker? Is it to cross seed? Or just higher probability to connect to a peer?
The second one mainly.
Doot for later
I add a bunch I copypasted from a list somewhere