Bit Torrent - Hold my hand please!
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Um, I think I'm being blonde as I'm struggling to get my head around the whole Bit-Torrent thing. 
Could someone please tell me exactly what I need to download in order to start using torrents? I have read various FAQ's and forums and I'm getting increasingly confused. Do I really need to find a client, Tracker, File Converter separately?
aaaaaargh, apologies for being a numpty!
Edited for smelling pistakes
>>> Edited by Chim_Girl on Monday 18th October 12:36
Could someone please tell me exactly what I need to download in order to start using torrents? I have read various FAQ's and forums and I'm getting increasingly confused. Do I really need to find a client, Tracker, File Converter separately?
aaaaaargh, apologies for being a numpty!
Edited for smelling pistakes
>>> Edited by Chim_Girl on Monday 18th October 12:36
ok - you need a client - I use http://azureus.sourceforge.net/ (its a java BT client).
Then you need to find the torrent files themselves. I use sueprnova.org or torrentreactor.net or such.
Once you download/open the torrent (azureus being default app) it should add the file to your download list - and hopefully queue it for download.
I've had mixed sucest with BT, you need to have it running for a long time for best results. Also change some of the defaults depending n what you want - no of concurrent downloads, max up/down bandwidth, separate directory for completed downloads etc.
Then you need to find the torrent files themselves. I use sueprnova.org or torrentreactor.net or such.
Once you download/open the torrent (azureus being default app) it should add the file to your download list - and hopefully queue it for download.
I've had mixed sucest with BT, you need to have it running for a long time for best results. Also change some of the defaults depending n what you want - no of concurrent downloads, max up/down bandwidth, separate directory for completed downloads etc.
Personally I don't get on with BT, but like BitTornado a lot.
If you are used to kazaa style clients, just install Shareaza, and then go to the sites listed above, click on the links, and away you go.
Personally I find shareaza seems to be much slower but it might just be me imagining it - i've got nowt to backup my supsicions.
Just downloaded the original 1981 BBC TV series "The Triffids". Can't wait to watch that retro action later, based on my favourite book.
If you are used to kazaa style clients, just install Shareaza, and then go to the sites listed above, click on the links, and away you go.
Personally I find shareaza seems to be much slower but it might just be me imagining it - i've got nowt to backup my supsicions.
Just downloaded the original 1981 BBC TV series "The Triffids". Can't wait to watch that retro action later, based on my favourite book.
whilst we are on the subject - how do make a torrent download faster - i have a 10 mb line and the best i have had is a dl at 200 kb p/s and at the moment I have a torrent with over 1000 peers and a load of seeds but the dl is at only 30 kb per sec
is it becuase i'm not sharing enough ?
is it becuase i'm not sharing enough ?
_Nathan_ said:
is it becuase i'm not sharing enough ?
I don't think so.... BitTornado shows your "share ratio" - mine is always 2 - 3 - meaning upload more than twice what I download. This basically means I am only ever getting about 128k down and 256k up, which is annoying. Still, I leave mine going all the time, and only pause it when I have some browsing to do.
Chim Girl.
You are not alone I tried to use it and gave up
I used to like Kazza lite but that has stopped working for some reason.
Didnt really understand what the hell was going off on bit torrent so unistalled it.
Is there anything around like Kazza lite? I mean all I did was start it up and seach for what I wanted then clicked on it easy peasy.
You are not alone I tried to use it and gave up
I used to like Kazza lite but that has stopped working for some reason. Didnt really understand what the hell was going off on bit torrent so unistalled it.
Is there anything around like Kazza lite? I mean all I did was start it up and seach for what I wanted then clicked on it easy peasy.
Ah, I can help you there. 
Soulseek is just like Kazaa, except you can d/l whole albums rather than just one song at once. It's very easy to use.
More information at www.zeropaid.com
Thanks for the information on Bit-Torrent, I'm going to have a play around with it tomorrow. I expect I'll be back..
Soulseek is just like Kazaa, except you can d/l whole albums rather than just one song at once. It's very easy to use. More information at www.zeropaid.com
Thanks for the information on Bit-Torrent, I'm going to have a play around with it tomorrow. I expect I'll be back..
You can setup the windows firewall to open certain ports for bit torrent to use. This seems to speed it up a lot.
Try this doc:
http://smiler.no-ip.org/BT/BTtutorial.htm
Try this doc:
http://smiler.no-ip.org/BT/BTtutorial.htm
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