Easy step-by-step guide that will help you start downloading movies, music, TV shows, and more in no time at all.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. (UPDATED ON MAY 19th, 2008)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. The first thing we need to do is acquire a BitTorrent client.. 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 because it's relatively simple, effective, and most importantly lightweight. It's small memory footprint consumes only 6MB of memory. Now the guide below will take you through the uTorrent setup process and beyond. INSTALLATION & SETUPTo begin, download uTorrent and install it.
Now we need to configure it to work properly and at a maximized setting based on your PCs internet connection speed. 1. Select "Speed Guide" from the Options Menu as shown below.
2. Run a "Speed Test" and note your upload connection speed.
3. Select your the connection speed determined above in the drop down menu as shown.
4. Choose a port number between 49512 and 65535(the recommended range). Also, the selected port must be forwarded if operating behind a router. As you can see in the picture, I went ahead and used port 49789 and then TESTED it.
....this is the message you should then see in your browser
5. Lastly, it asks if you want to "Enable Encryption." The reason for this is that many ISPs block or throttle BitTorrent connection speeds and this setting helps mask it. To test if your ISP throttles BitTorrent traffic |
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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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