For most people getting started with the whole BitTorrent “downloading thing” can be pretty intimidating. Sure maybe some of you had practice with Napster or Kazaa back in the day, but times have changed. Now it’s “trackers” and “clients,” and the list of new terminology goes on and on. So exactly how and where to begin can be a daunting and intimidating proposition.
So for those of you looking for an easy way to find the path to downloading enlightenment, I present to you an easy quick-step guide to get you up and downloading in no time at all. So sit back, hold on to your keyboard, and enjoy the ride.
The first thing we need to do is acquire a BitTorrent "client server" program . This is the program that will do the actual downloading for you. There are many to choose from and each has their own positives and negatives, so it’s up to you decide which best suits your needs and PC capabilities.
Currently, the most popular client server program is uTorrent . It’s simple, effective, and even better typically uses less than 6MB of memory. So for this tutorial uTorrent will be our downloading demonstration tool.
To begin, download uTorrent and open it.
Now we need to configure it to work properly and at a maximized setting based on your PC’s capability and internet's connection speed.
First click on "folder options" and choose a directory to put both your torrent trackers and downloads in. Then click on "ok" to save your settings.
Then back in the main window select "Speed Guide" as we will need to find out what your internet capabilities are so we can maximize uTorrent's potential based on your invidual capabilities.
So first we're gonna do a test to find out your internet's connection speed.
As you can see, in my case the maximum upload speed is 482 kbps. This is the result we will use to configure uTorrrent's connection type with. Scroll down Connection Type and select your speed result.
The next step is to make sure our ports are forwarded properly. If you aren't using a router then of course this doesn't apply to you, but for those of you who are let's make sure.
First, of course, forward your ports, a tutorial for which can be found here at Zeropaid. Once that's accomplished test to make sure it was done properly by clicking the Test if port is forwarded properly button.
If all is well you should receive this message in your internet browser.
So granting you received this message we're good to go. Finish up here by clicking Used Selected Settings to save all the changes we've made.
Now we’re ready to begin finding stuff to download. There are a wide variety of sites to choose from and each fall into a basic category of either "private," which is members only, or "open," which means membership is not required. We will start with one of the more popular "open" sites called Pirate Bay . For a complete list of BitTorrent sites out there we have a list here at Zeropaid that you can take a look at.
After opening the Pirate Bay website, type a search query in the box and press ENTER. We'll use the ever talented Clay Aiken as our test case.
You'll see a variety of Clay Aiken material to choose from. We'll select Clay Aiken Clips.
This will bring to you where the tracker download is located. The tracker is what will help the client server keep track of the seeders and leechers in the swarm and thus download the file or files. In the interest of legality, I am not going to download the Clay Aiken video clips here as shown in the picture, nor from anywhere else EVER for that matter, but rather will download a tracker from legaltorrents.com instead. So we'll pretend I clicked on "Download This Torrent," but in reality I clicked on another tracker instead.
After downloading the tracker you should see it appear in the main client server window. This means it has successfully been loaded and ready to go. After a few minutes of connecting to other seeders and leechers in the swarm it should begin downloading successfully.
So there you go, welcome to the BitTorrent community. Illegal? Sometimes. Better than getting ripped off for seeing a lame movie like Gigli? You betcha. Anyways, there you have it my friends, now may ye go forth and download.
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Then, after a few days, I began discovering the truth when stumbling across things like the post below - I spent hours reading though. There are probably tens of thousands of new uTorrent users every day like me, but that don't spend a few hours reading.
Anyone can easily confirm that uTorrent is in bed with those that are against the free sharing of files by merely going to the uTorrent site and looking at their [url=http://utorrent.com/privacy.php]Privacy Policy[/url], which states that uTorrnet is, "...owned and operated by BitTorrent, Inc., its affiliates and subsidiaries..." If you go to www.bittorrent.com you will see at the bottom of the page that some of BitTorrent's affiliates and subsidiaries include; 20th Century Fox, Comedy Central, Lionsgate Films, MTV Networks, Paramount, Spike, and Warner Bros.
How more obvious can you get? [b]No proof of monitoring is needed.[/b]
uTorrent should no longer be recommended for file sharing. In fact, it should be avoided at all costs. Only those that have a bias interest in it will say otherwise.
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"The fact is... utorrent was bought out by anti-p2p interests after version 1.6.1 came out. Everything after that is highly suspect. There's not a chance in hell that an anti-p2p entity is going to buy out a client and NOT eventually incorporate some form of DRM into it. To think otherwise would be incredibly naive.
A lot of people recommend sticking to 1.6.1, but I'm not even sure that's a good idea. What would stop utorrents owners from swapping out the version of 1.6.1 on their site with a spyware version? If you own 1.6.1 from before the takeover, sure, or if you can get it from a reliable source, fine, but I wouldn't download anything from utorrent.com. Not at this point.
I love 1.6.1 and never want to let it go, but the cold hard reality is that it's days are numbered. The moment anti-p2p interests got their grubby little hands on it, utorrent's fate was sealed.
Btw, I'm seeing a lot of people using 1.7x in private trackers. This is of tremendous concern to me. You can make it as hard as you want for members to join, but if you've got existing members using a client that's reporting outside the tracker... your members are screwed."
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