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04-11-08, 03:52 PM
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Rep Power: 2  |  what are trackers? I use torrents. I have heard a lot about trackers. Sometimes I see at the status update in so many minutes or seconds. what is these trackers? |
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04-11-08, 04:25 PM
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Rep Power: 2 | You know that torrents are peer to peer networking so it is like you may have a complete software and you seed the software and then multiple people will have bits and pieces of your software until it is fully downloaded To know who is having different bits and pieces so that new downloaders can get that piece, we need some database to track all this Trackers are servers which does this It keeps track who has got what piece of the file and who wants what piece and it take it form the one who has and gives it to the one who does not have |
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04-12-08, 12:24 PM
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Rep Power: 2 | The above post is quite good. For more details about trackers search wikipedia. |
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04-12-08, 12:44 PM
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