Trackon, The BitTorrent Tracker Tracker

Courtesy TorrentFreak  Tue, 11/17/2009 - 14:26

Public torrent have their critics, who mostly comment that they’re slow, unverified or unreliable. Only the latter is down to the tracker itself – the others are down to peers and sites.

Often public or open trackers are heavily loaded and operated on a shoestring budget, either as an ancillary project or out of someone’s pocket.

This can leave them prone to unexpected downtime , requiring DHT or additional trackers to be added to torrents in...


 

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