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how do you use bit torrent ?

  • 06-06-2005 6:01pm
    #1
    Jim10000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 217 ✭✭


    i've been having a look and am a bit baffled, I seem to be going around in circles.
    Can anyone give me step by step directions?
    Cheers.

    obviously I would only use it legally.


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  • #2
    64nDh1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭64nDh1


    BitTorrent is a good client, and the new beta is moving toward becoming trackerless. There isn't much needed to set it up.

    First off, BitTorrent is used to connect to other people's computers using specified ports. You can set the port number, by default it is at 6881. You need to have this open on your firewall to use BitTorrent. You can change this number to anything up to 65355. Messing around with the numbers can cause problems if you assign BitTorrent the same port as another application. Only do this if you know what you are doing.

    BitTorrent searches for information which it gets from trackers. This tells BitTorrent what other computers on the network it can download part of the files from. These other computers can sometimes be set up to reject your attempt to connect to them if you are only downloading and not uploading, or uploading very little or very slowly. So, in you BitTorrent preferences make Downloading and Uploading unlimited, or if you have problems with that, take both down to 80% of their maximum. If all your bandwidth is taken up then the two computers exchange parts of the files, but cannot talk to each other to find out what parts the receiving one has or wants.

    To start downloading, you need to find a .torrent file online. One such site is Legal Torrents where you can find files to download with BitTorrent that you are allowed to legally download. You can find some independent movies, some Creative Commons license CDs and mp3 files and other stuff like Lawrence Lessig's free e-book in text and audio formats.

    Now, open that .torrent file with BitTorrent and start BitTorrent searching for people to download from. Pick where you want to save the file.

    A good solution to set up problems is to try using a different client program, like Azureus. This Azureus Wiki will help you with anything you need to set up Azureus. It is more sophisticated than BitTorrent. You can add the addresses of trackers to your torrents, meaning you hook up to different networks if you find multiple sources of the same files. You can test your ports, instead of the sort of guesswork BitTorrent makes you do. You can also see the size of the swarm you are part of in the 2.3.0.0 version onwards if that helps, and there are a lot of plug-ins which can do other things if you get them for Azureus. It's written in Java, so it's identical on Mac, PC or Linux.

    Read the Wiki even if you are sticking with Bram Cohen's BitTorrent program, it covers the basics of torrents pretty well as I remember.Azureus


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