Intro
Do any of you people have Limewire? If so, then congratulations you now known for stealing stuff online. However if you want to upgrade yourself from the single file by file downloading and to actually get stuff in big packages such as software, games, movies, and full CDs, torrents are a nice thing to turn to.
What is a torrent?
First of all you need to know what a torrent is. A torrent is a special file that I would consider to be sort of a signal on the internet. It basically calls out and asks for information, not all of it, just bits and pieces. The torrent continues to call out and ask for more info until it is done getting all the pieces it needs, it then starts seeding, meaning now its willing to copy and give away info to torrents that have been calling for it. However you can simply stop it, I will show you later.
Do any of you people have Limewire? If so, then congratulations you now known for stealing stuff online. However if you want to upgrade yourself from the single file by file downloading and to actually get stuff in big packages such as software, games, movies, and full CDs, torrents are a nice thing to turn to.
What is a torrent?
First of all you need to know what a torrent is. A torrent is a special file that I would consider to be sort of a signal on the internet. It basically calls out and asks for information, not all of it, just bits and pieces. The torrent continues to call out and ask for more info until it is done getting all the pieces it needs, it then starts seeding, meaning now its willing to copy and give away info to torrents that have been calling for it. However you can simply stop it, I will show you later.
thats a simple cartoon on how torrents work
Source: bsoonihug.blogspot.com
Source: bsoonihug.blogspot.com
Lets get a torrent program
In order to get the torrent to work you need a program that can recognize torrents, my personal favorite is utorrent or mini-torrent for some. It is a small .exe file. That you can easily place on a flash drive and be on you way. You can download it here:
http://www.utorrent.com/do
download the "Stable" one, its well..stable. save it and put in a place on your computer where you can easily find it, I say desktop.
Make this program faster!!!
Now that thats done, you need to make it faster. How fast it can download depends on the the number of seeders of the file you want. The more, the faster. But if you want it to be even faster, here is how you can tweak your utorrent to run faster:
http://www.youtube.com/wat
Follow this guy and ignore his stupid ad in the beginning.
Get to the downloading
Afterwards you are now officially ready to download whatever you want. I personally use http://isohunt.com this is one of the few torrent sites that don't look like a porn site.
So, search for what you want, and make sure you sort it by number of seeders, seeders once again are files that are willing to be copied (piece by piece) and given away to who ever calls out for it.
Okay, now that you found the file, click download .torrent at the top, you will then be asked to open or save, if you chose to save go to the IF YOU SAVED AREA of this note, if you select open go to the paragraph called "putting it together"
IF YOU SAVED:
Open utorrent. Go to File -> Add torrent. Find the torrent in the place you saved it in and run it. Now you can skip to the paragraph called "putting it together"
Putting it together
Alright you will now get a window that will show the path of where the file will be downloaded to. You can chose your path(do this is you have it on a USB, make it download to your USB), but by default it will go to your documents folder. At the bottom you will see a box with check marks and the files that will be downloaded. If its software or a game, make sure all files are selected. If its CDs and you want certain songs or videos, then feel free to select and deselect whatever you want.
say okay and it shall download.
Depending on traffic it should take a while or really quickly. But word of caution:
TORRENTS TAKE UP SOOOOO MUCH BANDWIDTH
It gets to the point where you cannot use the internet
SO, just download what you need and go take a walk or read a book or whatever and come back to check on your PC every so often.
After it is done loading, it will reach 100% and start seeding. If you want to just stop it and run it. Right click on the seeding file then select "stop" then right click again and say open containing folder, and BAM you have whatever you want
Im thinking of making another one thats deals with the specific things you encounter on torrents
But thats about it, have fun!!
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