A bittorrent question...

[rep]

Don't debate the moral nuances of this, because I know all you clowns constantly steal everything.

Here's the question: When you download a .torrent file, does it matter which site you download it from? It's all connected to one tracker, right? Because I've noticed that downloading a .torrent from a smaller site I might get a 120KBps download speed, but a larger site like mininova I often get anywhere from 300KBps to 0.5MBps. Does that make any sense?

I download new TV shows because iTunes doesn't offer them in HDTV resolution, and then when the season comes out on DVD I purchase that at launch. It's the same thing as TiVo, which I fail to see why that's legal and downloading isn't, so I'm in the same boat as all you pirate nerds as far as TV shows are concerned. I pay for 18MBps Ultranet, and I cancelled my ultimate cable package because most TV is for retards and mournons, so I download the shows I like.

Edit: Okay here's yet another question... Is it fair that I'm uploading at nearly double the download speed on some files? One show that's downloading now is only going at 110KBps and I'm uploading that at 200KBps. Lame.

[Don Carlos]

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[Don Carlos]

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[Massive Quasars]

Shouldn't matter.

[Foo]

It's all connected to one tracker, right?

No, there is no single tracker for all bittorrent files. Most sites run their own tracker with the exception of a few 'hub' sites.

People seeding a file on one tracker are usually not also seeding a file on another one. It's possible, but unlikely.

[SplishSplash]

forward your ports

[seremtan]

i find mininova slow to access (the site) but torrentspy is always fast. in any case, the d/l speed depends on how many seeds and whether those seeds are in a country with decent upload bandwidth (i.e. not the UK)

[rep]

It's all connected to one tracker, right?

No, there is no single tracker for all bittorrent files. Most sites run their own tracker with the exception of a few 'hub' sites.

People seeding a file on one tracker are usually not also seeding a file on another one. It's possible, but unlikely.

No, I meant is the .torrent is connected to one tracker, like... If I download from mininova, is it using their tracker or something congregated?

[Foo]

It's all connected to one tracker, right?

No, there is no single tracker for all bittorrent files. Most sites run their own tracker with the exception of a few 'hub' sites.

People seeding a file on one tracker are usually not also seeding a file on another one. It's possible, but unlikely.

No, I meant is the .torrent is connected to one tracker, like... If I download from mininova, is it using their tracker or something congregated?

Your client should tell you on the status screen for the torrent. In utorrent it's under General Tracker URL.

If you download 2 different torrents and they both fire up with the same tracker URL, then they're the same torrent. If they initialise with differing tracker URLs, there's no connection between the 2 torrents.

[dzjepp]

If the file size(s) are the same, same structure etc. you should be able to manualy add urls to that tracker list, if you got more, should add to having more peers etc.

But larger 'hub' sites like isohunt pool torrents from a number of trackers, most of the stuff (or rather the popular stuff) from there usually has a few (half a dozen or so) trackers at once.