Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Torrents Download tips

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What is a torrent?

Torrent is a small file (around few kilobytes) with the suffix .torrent, which contains all the information needed to download a file the torrent was made for. That means it contains file names, their sizes, where to download from and so on. You can get torrents for almost anything on lots of web sites and torrent search engines.

Torrent is the most popular way of downloading large files, including musics, movies and games.

Downloading with a torrent is advantageous especially when downloading files, which are momentarily very popular and which lots of people are downloading. Because the more people download the file, the higher speed for everyone.

  • torrent is a file
  • with torrents you can download almost everything on the net
  • every file (or set of files) need to have an unique torrent file to download it
  • to download anything through a torrent you need a torrent client.
You probably already tried another ways of p2p sharing - torrent is just another method. The original BitTorrent client was written in Python and it has been made open-source. Thanks to that, we have a large variety of torrent clients today. Just choose which one you like.

How to download torrent

Step 1:

You have to download and install a torrent client to your computer. I prefer BitComet. You can download this software from here.

Step 2:

Now, as BitComet is installed, you've got to setup your Bitcomet option. Just click in option button and set your option as shown bellow:

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Now hit "Apply" to save your Option Settings. You are now done with your download software.

Step 3:

You have to search for your desired file now. Simply go to your browser and google your movie, music or other file type. My tip here is to use "torrets" after your file name.
Example: If you are searching for the movie "TITANIC", then you should search for "movie titanic torrents" in google. For this you'll get various torrents site as result. But before downloading always see for "comments" of that particular torrent. Because there are many fake torrents out there. If you are not careful then you may end up downloading a fake torrent which require password and shit. So, always see for comments and ratings.
There are many Torrent site. You can visit those. Click Here for more.

I hope this tutorial will be helpful for you. I just want to say that this is not the absolute way. There are many other ways but you can begin with this. Please leave comment if you find this helpful.

1 comment:

  1. Nice walkthrough about downloading torrents. I agree with you torrent download is getting popular now and it's better than direct download. especially when you are downloading a large amount of file.

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