July 30, 200717 yr Torrents aren't hard to use dude. First off, you need a search engine or a torrent site handy. With a search engine, just type in whatever movie, music album, game, etc. you're looking for and torrent next to it. For a torrent site specifically, I use http://www.torrentspy.com. Once you find what you're looking for, note how many seeders and downloaders there are and when was the last time the torrent was checked. Seeders are people that have downloaded the file, but stick around to upload it for other users. Downloaders are just that... Downloaders. The more seeders it has, the better. The more downloaders it has... Well, a lot of downloaders and few seeders slow it down, but if there are a lot of downloaders it shows that the file is active. Another thing to note is when the file was last checked to be sure that the information is up to date. Most of the times it is. Your file should be small, probably anywhere between 10 kb to 100 kb more or less depending on the size of what you want. Once you have the file you'll think ok, what the fuck now? Just get a Bittorrent client. The default one is meh. Personally, I use BitComet. BitComet lets you assign a port so that you can port forward to that specifically. It also lets you up the TCP limit on XP, which is a good thing. Once you have the client, just open the torrent up through it, select where you want to download it on your HD, then select which files you want to download (if you're downloading a discography for instance and you already have an album in the file, you can just deslect that one album and select the rest), and you're done. Once you do this, the files themselves will download (since the torrent file is sortve just a gateway to the files rather than the files themselves) and then you just have to wait till it's done. If you have second thoughts and want to delete it before its done, just right click on it in bitcomet and choose to delete task and files. What that does is it deletes the task from BitComet and deletes the incomplete files on your HD that you were downloading. Once the download is done you can choose to either stick around and seed for people (once the download reaches 100% it automatically starts to upload it for others), or if you don't feel like it or can't spare the bandwidth, simply delete the task to end it (delete task only since you're keeping the files obviously). That's about it...
July 30, 200717 yr I heard it was good. I believe I used it once or twice and it seemed fine to me. As long as you can port-forward and optimize the network speeds and bandwidth and such, you're fine. It all depends on your ISP of course. Mine is forgiving, and so is my router. I didn't really need to worry much about it, but of course, port-forwarding and all that other extra stuff did help boost it up. Some ISPs and routers are even more forgiving and you don't really need to care so much about that stuff. It's up to you.
August 1, 200717 yr utorrent or Azureus are the best atm bitcommet never recovered from the DHT bullshit in version .59 or .61? one of them and is banned from alot of trackers now newsgroups are ok, but u have to pay for it, some isp's offer a free newsgroup server but there retention is shit and they dont cover all the major groups just use utorrent its the easyest to set up, and u only need to portforward if u have a router, and most routers support UPnP port mapping anyway
