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Setting Up uTorrent as a Server

How to set up your uTorrent client as a server

This is my preferred way to allow you to download a trade directly from me.


  FYI From their online FAQ under FEATURES it shows


  1. 15. Does µTorrent have an embedded tracker?

    Yes, it does. You can turn it on by enabling bt.enable_tracker in the Advanced section. However, it is a very simple tracker, with no web interface, or even the ability to see what torrents are hosted on it. It is not designed for anything requiring security or large-scale. A stand-alone tracker is much better for this. It allows all torrents, external or not, to be tracked on it when enabled.

    Once you have enabled it, you can use it by simply putting the tracker's URL into a torrent. The tracker URL is http://your.ip:port/announce (port being µTorrent's incoming port). IP can be external or internal, depending on if you want to use it in a LAN or across the Internet.


Create a .torrent file using Trader's Little Helper (or which ever tool you use to create a .torrent file), and specify the URL as http://your.ip:port/announce, where your.ip is YOUR ISP assigned IP Address (note, this will be different than your LAN IP address, instead it's your WAN IP address). 

Load up that .torrent file into uTorrent after you performed the above uTorrent FAQ Step 1 / 15, point uTorrent to the folder containing the entire release. It should then perform a "check" on the folder contents, and it should show that you are "Seeding" it. If it shows a state of "downloading", then you did not do something correctly.  Check all the above steps again until it's "Seeding".



Last Updated on Tuesday, 22 December 2009 16:35