What is Torrent Tracker
A torrent tracker is a server that tracks torrent users and keeps the information such as the number of seeders and leechers, the torrent filesize and number of downloads. Torrent is a peer-to-peer process. There is no central server for torrents. So how users find each other? Using trackers, simple. Torrent works by creating a small chunk of the file and sharing and distributing this file among the “swarm “. When you put a .torrent file on your torrent client like uTorrent, Vuze, Bittorrent, qTorrent etc. it simply uses these torrent trackers to find the peers. Suppose, there are 900 seeders seeding a torrent and 800 leechers are downloading the torrent. Now the job of a tracker is to find who are interested in downloading the particular torrent file and when any user wants to download a torrent file, the torrent client then sends this request to one of the trackers and asks the tracker to register this user’s IP and port. Tracker then accepts the request and it tries to find the other user who also showed their interest by either seeding the torrent or currently downloading the torrent. When the torrent client finds the all these information from the torrent tracker then a direct connection is made among all of the peers.
As you can see, a torrent tracker knows your IP address and port. Now, there are some controversy running regarding tracker. Hollywood studios employ special torrent hunting team of professionals who normally can run uTorrent app and after it get connected with other peers it can easily note down the IP addresses. Note that, most of the Public trackers can be used like this to hunt down torrent downloader or uploader. Some Copyright Protection agencies even run honeypot tracker so that they can track down torrent downloaders. So I urge all Torrent users to use a VPN for Torrenting. When you are connected with a VPN, your real IP address is masked and your online activity is hidden from all ISPs, Copyright trolls, Govt. Agencies. To protect your privacy and to avoid copyright infringement notice you must turn on Torrent VPN. During our extensive torrent downloading test we found that Private Internet Access gives amazing download speed as all of their server is optimized specially for torrenting and P2P download.
Type of Torrent tracker
There are two types of Torrent tracker e.g. Public and Private . A public tracker or open tracker means any user can use the tracker by simply opening their bitTorrent client and add the tracker address. No registration or invitation is needed for public trackers. On the other hand, a private tracker is opened only for registered users and they limit the usage as per upload or download ration. You can read more about it from our Public vs Private Tracker list.
What a torrent tracker doesn’t do?
It IS NOT a proxy or middle-man between the peers. It CAN NOT share DATA among the peers. It DOES NOT store the .torrent file metadata. It DOES NOT know which segment of the torrent file that you are downloading. We use tracker only to increase the torrent download speed and it works. When you find a torrent file with less seeder then you can take help of these tracker server so that uTorrent can find other seeder those are not being tracked by the current list.
Download link For Working Torrent Trackers List
Torrent Tracker List Updated 2022
If you are downloading torrents regularly I recommend you to use a Torrent VPN to hide your identity from your ISP and Govt. for safer torrenting. Here is the list of Best VPN for Torrenting recommended by Techspree. Please note that, after each tracker we have put a blank line, this is necessary to separate the tiers. Just copy all of the above trackers and paste it on your Torrent Client like uTorrent.
How to add new trackers to utorrent?
To add the list, just copy and then open your uTorrent App. Right Click on the torrent file from the list then select Properties from the bottom. A new Window will appear where you can paste the trackers.
If you find any more torrent tracker site not listed here, please leave that in comment so that we can update the post with the new ones.
