Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Torrenting, ever wondered how it's done ?

This is the simplest thing in the world and easier to explain then make some Youtube video out of it so millions of people can copy me to get views. Although if you're the type to learn from a video then that might be for you.

Lets get to the instructions. First you need a bittorrent client, any of them will do. Limewire has one built in, or bitlord, bitcomet and azureus. Those are all of the ones you could go download, after you look them up on google. There are far more others out there than that. But those are easy to use.

The tutorial will be based of bitlord. You can get it from http://www.bitlord.com/ . You need to download Winrar as well. You can get it in almost any language at http://www.rarlabs.com/ . Some people say this program works and others don't but if you would like to try it. Peer guardian 2 is available on the web. The name says it all. Now you need a torrent file. Open bitlord after you've installed it.

The green icon on your desktop or where you put it. Download the torrent file from where ever you want. Drag and drop the torrent file into the client. it will ask you some questions about the download. Stating how many files are in it and if you would like to start downloading now or at a later time. This is your own decision. You can modify the options on the client.

One thing about torrenting, files come in many formats. Some you may have never heard of but i guarantee all can be opened. Rar is one of the more popular torrent files due to the ability to chop up files. When you open your folder after you've download the torrent if theres tons of files with a .rar extension. Go to the first one 001.rar or what ever, open it, drag and drop it's contents to your desktop and you're done. You've just extracted a .rar file.

I don't support illegal downloading. Torrenting is good for moving large files (1mb - 20gb or more) Depending on seeds and how fast people decide to let their upload capacity be is how fast you will get the file you are downloading. Torrenting is a large community, so whatever you download, seed to the ratio requirements posted on the site you're downloading from or seed as long as you can.

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