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If I have two laptops and connect them to the same internet connection then download the same torrent file using a BitTorrent software, what do the trackers see? and how will the torrent software behave??
Let's say in Laptop A I start downloading the torrent file then after 30 minutes, I download the same torrent file on Laptop B.
Will the two laptop become peers and send each other data? Will Laptop B get data from Laptop A?
Will the trackers in the torrent file think that there is only one laptop/one peer trying to download the file?
Or will the tracker only see one public IP address since they are using the same internet connection?
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Really simple. On most torrent clients, you select the torrent file, and underneath the Peers tab (it's near Files, etc.) You right click to "Add Peer" and enter the local IP address and port for the other torrent client.
Your internet service provider (ISP) and copyright trolls monitoring the BitTorrent network can take action if they catch you illegally torrenting. This can range from a warning letter and throttling (slowing down) of your internet connection speeds to legal action – although the latter is increasingly rare.
If a BitTorrent file is no longer being shared and has no seeders to match with, then you can't download it. That means that uTorrent is stuck on “connecting to peers” until other users begin to seed the file you've chosen to download again.
As we've already said, when it comes to speed, there isn't a real difference between uTorrent and BitTorrent, and the same is true for your Android device. The two clients even have the exact same rating in Google Play (4.5 stars).
Will the two laptop become peers and send each other data? Will Laptop B get data from Laptop A?
Assuming that two BitTorrent clients are behind the same NAT:
If the torrent is public (the private flag is not set) and both clients support Local Peer Discovery, they can find each other that way.
If the NAT support Hairpinning and preserve the same external and internal port for at least one of the clients, there is a good chance that they can connect to each other that way too.
Will the trackers in the torrent file think that there is only one laptop/one peer trying to download the file?
Or will the tracker only see one public IP address since they are using the same internet connection?
They will share the same IP. If the tracker can differ between them with the help of the port they connect from and the different peer_ids they use, depends on the specific implementation the tracker use.
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