What Is Torrent?

In Utorrent, what does it mean to load trackers from a torrent?

• Sometimes in Utorrent when I try to open a torrent, it gives me this message. "The torrent that you are trying to add is already in the list of torrents. Do you want to load the trackers from it?" I always click no though because I'm not sure what it's going to do if I click yes. Does anyone on here know what it means to load trackers from a torrent in Utorrent? Thanks.

• Answer:

  Double click on any torrent in uTorrent to see the list of trackers to which you're announcing. If you download a torrent that is identical to a torrent that is already in uTorrent, there's no point in adding it again, as I'm sure you would agree. However, if the more recently downloaded torrent contains the addresses of trackers that you do not already have listed in your client, uTorrent will ask if you want to load them. Usually you will want to click "Yes", since all it would do is make it slightly more likely that you'll connect to some peers. If you're only announcing to trackers A, B and C, but there are 20 peers who are announcing exclusively to tracker D, it would be beneficial for you to start announcing to tracker D as well so that you can connect to those 20 additional peers (theoretically).