Different peer count in tracker vs transfer window?

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snakyjake

Different peer count in tracker vs transfer window?

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Why do the trackers show more Peers than the torrent transfer?
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Re: Different peer count in tracker vs transfer window?

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Trackers show X peers, all the peers they have.
But:
- qBittorrent honors your connection limits.
- You cannot connect to each of one of these peers. (they have no upload slot, they have no direct connection, etc.)
- They cannot connect to you. (you have no slots left, etc.)

Personal experience is, that the bigger the swarm, the slower you will get your data.
It's not qBittorrent, but bittorrent in general.
snakyjake

Re: Different peer count in tracker vs transfer window?

Post by snakyjake »

What I'd like to see is the total number of seeders and peers so I can discern the health of a torrent.
ciaobaby

Re: Different peer count in tracker vs transfer window?

Post by ciaobaby »

You will never get the actual numbers, trackers cache peer IDs and with clients that can and/or do send random IDs to trackers, they may well be counted multiple times.
Switeck

Re: Different peer count in tracker vs transfer window?

Post by Switeck »

You're contacting the same trackers multiple times under slightly different announce URLs, so no surprise many of those are identical.
Save them some trouble -- please remove obvious duplicates.
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