Lesson on Creating torrent and seeding

Talking a lot of topic about downloading, and now we will talk about how to be a seeder and share your file online using Bt. To create a torrent, we need trackers.

Here is an example of BT trackers:

http://tracker.prq.to/announce
http://inferno.demonoid.com:3389/announce
http://tracker.phogotorrents.com:2006/announce
http://altimit-dev.net:6969/announce
http://privatetracker.limitedivx.com:2710/announce.php
http://tracker.torrentbox.com:2710/announce
udp://tracker.bitcomet.net:8080/announce


and a lot more, where we can find from the torrent we downloaded or just do a search on google



Usually to create torrent, from the BT client go to File -> Create new Torrent (or CTRL + N).
Then select the files to seed and put on the tracker that's all. We can use more than one tracker at the same time. The more tracker we put, the more effective for other peers to track the seed. Many trackers are used because in case if one tracker goes offline or down then other tracker can still help to maintain the linking between the peers.



For further information: http://torrentfreak.com/how-to-create-a-torrent/



One more thing before I end my post is to talk about super seeding.

What is super seeding?

Super seeding is a feature that allows seeders who are the only seed in the swarm to solely seed pieces that are found nowhere else in the swarm . It is also known as initial seed in utorrent(To enable it just right click the torrent go to Properties and tick Initial Seeding). The super seeding client pretends not to be a seed, but pretends to be a peer with an incomplete file. Then the client shares with one peer only, usually the one with the fastest upload to others and that peer can then share that piece with the swarm. This allows the super seeding client to maximise the efficiency of the upload by only sharing those pieces nobody else has.


In conclusion, I think super seeding should be used only depend on the situation. Due to some other things about the behaviour of super seeding, this function does not work well in swarms with one peer and one seed only. So it is only good when the seeder is the only seed, and there are more than two peers. Therefore, it is bad and ineffective to leave it on all the time. Most good clients should switch it on only depend on the situation. Or else it may cause degradation on speed for everyone.



Internet Resources:
How to create a torrent TorrentFreak, [Doc, Online], 30 June 2007
URL: http://torrentfreak.com/how-to-create-a-torrent/


Super-seeding - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, [Doc, Online], 30 June 2007
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-seeding