Trackers in torrents are those who co-ordinate the communication amongst the peers. This tutorial will teach you how to remove trackers from torrent clients. Each torrent that you download will contain a set of trackers in their directory.
The work of the tracker is to establish connection between you and the other peers on the network. Some have an opinion that more the trackers, more will be download speed, but in many cases, most of the trackers are slow responding or dead ones. Removing such trackers from the list and keeping only the active and efficient trackers and increase you torrent download speed by a large value.
How to Remove Trackers from uTorrent
- Select the particular torrent whose trackers you want to remove.
- In the Detailed info panel, select Trackers. (Press F5 if you don’t see the detailed info panel)
- You will see the list of trackers there, along with the Seeds & Peers in each tracker.
- Select the low performing trackers ( less seeders, lower download rate)
- Right click on the selected tracker and click on Remove Tracker.
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Though I’m not a big fan of torrent but this tips is still useful for me if I use torrent in future because 99% torrent file have some type of viruses.
Judging from the attached screenshot, you seem to be using Ubuntu. Are you?
Nope I’m on Windows XP, with Windows Zune Theme
Ram,
This is a large piece of information.. Frankly speaking, I did not know the exact use of these trackers…
yeah i too believed that more the trackers, more will be download speed, but didnt know that there are dead trackers also .and this tutorial is really helpful in getting rid of those dead and slow trackers. thanks for the share.
WoW a great tutorial I must say