Torrents?

[+Xinok Subscriber²]

uTorrent mainly became popular because it's one of the lightest clients available. It's less than 150k and only uses about 6mb of memory.

Bitttorrent is only a protocol. There are several clients available which use the same protocol.

Bittorrent does not have a centralized server. People can set up their own servers for bittorrent, which are otherwise called trackers.

What we usually call a "torrent" is a small file which contains information about a download. A client reads the information stored in a torrent to start a new download.

There are several sites in which these torrent files are available. There are also sites which are merely search engines. They're like any search engine (ex Google) - They index all the torrents available on certain sites, and create a database which you can then search from using their website.

So this is what you need:

1) You need a bittorrent client. The two best are probably Azureus (the correct spelling), and uTorrent. Bitcomet was banned on several trackers, which is why it's not popular anymore.

2) You need a torrent file. Before this, you may also need a site to get torrent files from. I'll let you find these yourself.

3) Open the torrent in your client and start downloading!

Customizing your client:

1) Look for a setting in which you choose what port to download from. Choose a random number between 40000 to 65000 to set the port number to.

2) Set your max upload speed to about 60% - 80% of your total upload capacity. If you can upload at 50k / sec, set your max upload to 30-40k.

3) The port number you chose from #1, open this port on any firewall(s) you have. Firewalls aren't very bittorrent friendly and tend to slow down your downloads. I'll leave it up to you to figure out how to do this.

[gaurav]

Once you have downloaded a file - keep the client open!!!

And btw it's ? (Alt+0181) not u FFS!!!!!!

Huh?

Alt+what?!

it doesnt work, or i didnt get the joke, or i'm not doing it right.

[jimbo12141]

Why does everyone keep saying uTorrent, whats wrong with Azereus? (besides being hard to spell)

because it uses alot of Ram and resorces, u torrent is much better, i usually get around 110 - 150 kbps down on Utorrent

[chopyaedoff]

Huh?

Alt+what?!

it doesnt work, or i didnt get the joke, or i'm not doing it right.

Everyone calls ?Torrent "uTorrent" when it's ?Torrent (? means micro) and the key for ? is Alt+0181

[gryffin]

A .torrent file can be downloaded from any Bit Torrent client.

IMO Bit Torrent is the way forward for both legal and illegal file sharing.

:)

ROFL im sure....

torrents are dying

[kaffra]

because it uses alot of Ram and resorces, u torrent is much better, i usually get around 110 - 150 kbps down on Utorrent

yes its takes more ram, but speedwise as long as you properly configure any client it will be the same

[HoochieMamma]

ROFL im sure....

torrents are dying

HAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHhahahahahahahhahahahahahhahahaha

Classic

[Bhav]

ROFL im sure....

torrents are dying

:laugh: You must be joking. What a bunch of crap - BitTorrent is getting more popular if anything. There are more BitTorrent sites now than there were when SuprNova was around, and BitTorrent is being used legally more and more.

NTL and BitTorrent Inc are teaming up to legally distribute content.

[TimRogers]

Everyone calls ?Torrent "uTorrent" when it's ?Torrent (? means micro) and the key for ? is Alt+0181

Why are "?" flaming people?

[gryffin]

:laugh: You must be joking. What a bunch of crap - BitTorrent is getting more popular if anything. There are more BitTorrent sites now than there were when SuprNova was around, and BitTorrent is being used legally more and more.

NTL and BitTorrent Inc are teaming up to legally distribute content.

i mean illegal content, its definitly slowing , and once that stops, the protocol dies

have fun on your torrents which broadcast your ip unencrpyted to every single other person on that torrent, they dont even have to be on the tracker with DHT :no:

you might as well go to http://www.riaa.com/ and report yourself, you will shorten your wait

[chopyaedoff]

^?Torrent encrypts your IP address in the latest Betas.

[Tristan]

try getting into a 0-day scene (private) tracker where there are 100mbit seeders so your torrents go super duper fast! :D :devil: :laugh: :shiftyninja:

[troist]

try getting into a 0-day scene (private) tracker where there are 100mbit seeders so your torrents go super duper fast! :D :devil: :laugh: :shiftyninja:

the problem with private trackers is you have to upload back to a nice ratio... and with those 100mbit seeders it can be damn hard to do unless you rent a 100mbit box too.

also, i think bittorrent trackers are getting closer to the pre-times than even newsgroups now... that just shows how much more popular torrents are becoming for piracy.

edit: ?Torrent doesn't encrypt your IP address... thats impossible, it encrypts the headers so that your ISP can't do traffic shaping on you. some ISPs like rogers will make it almost impossible to use bittorrent because of the bandwidth usage and ever increasing piracy. the ironic thing is that the pirates are fine because they all have encryption on, but your average joe doesn't understand the encryption and therefore can't use bittorrent.

Edited March 4, 2006 by troist

[gryffin]

try getting into a 0-day scene (private) tracker where there are 100mbit seeders so your torrents go super duper fast! :D :devil: :laugh: :shiftyninja:

thats not scene, scene is 100mbit ftp servers, i have never seen a scene server on torrents maby im wrong but that person would banned by siteop's (if following scene rules)

[Tristan]

thats not scene, scene is 100mbit ftp servers, i have never seen a scene server on torrents maby im wrong but that person would banned by siteop's (if following scene rules)

I didn't mean the actual "SCENE" but, a tracker with scene releases (fast PRE time) and fast seeders (seeding from 100mbit servers).

[Borbus]

^?Torrent encrypts your IP address in the latest Betas.

Encrypts your IP address? Right...:rolleyes::

The latest beta will encrypt the bittorrent packet headers IF the other client supports it (it only works with Bitcomet). This is to stop ISPs throttling bittorrent by using stateful packet inspection not as a privacy measure.

[Vlad]

Encrypts your IP address? Right... :rolleyes:

The latest beta will encrypt the bittorrent packet headers IF the other client supports it (it only works with Bitcomet). This is to stop ISPs throttling bittorrent by using stateful packet inspection not as a privacy measure.

Omgzbbq you beat me :(

Oh well, great minds... :)

[insurektion]

ROFL im sure....

torrents are dying

OH NOES!!! Its teh Scene n00b who is a tool for the feds. Quick delete and conspicuos comments!11!1

(see www.welcometothescene.com for insiders access to the joke)

[+.Vamp Subscriber²]

I know a lot of ppl say ?torrent is the best, but i tried it, and wasnt too impressed, so i went back to the one i was originally using, and and very happy with it, BITCOMET!! Bitcomet it much better than ?torrent, for me anyway. But i think it depends on your computer and setup, and just preference in general, but Bitcomet is definatley worth a look.

[troist]

I know a lot of ppl say ?torrent is the best, but i tried it, and wasnt too impressed, so i went back to the one i was originally using, and and very happy with it, BITCOMET!! Bitcomet it much better than ?torrent, for me anyway. But i think it depends on your computer and setup, and just preference in general, but Bitcomet is definatley worth a look.

bitcomet is banned on a few private trackers... theres lots of rumors about how bad it is to the tracker. they're mostly unproven and i don't want to go into a debate about their validity here, but the developers are just idiots.

bitcomet used to totally ignore the private flag set by a torrent/tracker which meant you could use DHT on private trackers, totally comprising safety. the only reason bitcomet added that feature was because there were so many people not using it because of it being banned on trackers.

the devs also made their header encryption totally closed, so other client devs couldn't implement the same encryption in their clients. thats why azureus and utorrent work together encrypted (their encryption methods are open to anyone) but bitcomet doesn't work with either.

now don't get me wrong, the client itself is very fast at downloading... but the developers terrible attitude to the bittorrent community puts me off it.

[Borbus]

bitcomet is banned on a few private trackers... theres lots of rumors about how bad it is to the tracker. they're mostly unproven and i don't want to go into a debate about their validity here, but the developers are just idiots.

bitcomet used to totally ignore the private flag set by a torrent/tracker which meant you could use DHT on private trackers, totally comprising safety. the only reason bitcomet added that feature was because there were so many people not using it because of it being banned on trackers.

the devs also made their header encryption totally closed, so other client devs couldn't implement the same encryption in their clients. thats why azureus and utorrent work together encrypted (their encryption methods are open to anyone) but bitcomet doesn't work with either.

now don't get me wrong, the client itself is very fast at downloading... but the developers terrible attitude to the bittorrent community puts me off it.

I agree, I hate BitComet too, a private tracker i'm a member of continues to ban BitComet even now it respects the private flag. It is a very aggresive client, it abuses the have message by telling other clients it has a piece when it doesn't so that the other client will upload to it in the hope of getting unchoked for that piece. It also disconnects and reconnects to peers so that it will get an optimistic unchoke. This makes super-seeding very slow because it disconnects from the seed as soon as it recieves a piece so the super-seed cannot determin whether it's a good uploader or not, and when it reconnects it will get a new piece immediatly due to super-seeds prioritising new peers.

BitComet sucks, I am glad that it's banned at the trackers that I use.