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Rogerlz · Joined: 30 Nov 2006 Posts: 216 Location: Costa Rica

Someone can explain me how does torrents works??? I have alredy instaled bittorrent and also I instaled bitcomet.... but I don't know how I can find the things (music, videos, games, etc)

Plese somebody help me!!! Very Happy

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YuKiML · Joined: 10 Aug 2005 Posts: 5 Location: USA

BitTorrent and BitComet are both softwares that you can use to get the download from torrent links. You can use either one of them. I personally prefer BitComet for its interface.

Here is how torrents work:
You will have to find a torrent link (music, videos, games etc.) You can find BitTorrent links from websites such as Torrentspy.com (Type in whatever you want to search and download the BT Link. (Shortcut for BitTorrent)

After you downloaded the BT Link, open it up. Normally, its default will be whichever program that you set default for. Say you set all the BT links for BitComet to handle, it will open up BitComet.

Then just click ok and start the download.

That is basically how it works. Normally you will want to find torrent links with a decent amount of seeders. Seeders are like people who have finished download and they have their torrent on so you can get the files over from them.

Rogerlz · Joined: 30 Nov 2006 Posts: 216 Location: Costa Rica

thanks!!!!!! Is very easy to use, I was thinking that was something very dificult...
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YuKiML · Joined: 10 Aug 2005 Posts: 5 Location: USA

Yes. It is quite easy =)

LeslieW · Joined: 27 Dec 2006 Posts: 3

http://search.torrents.to/

I like to use this site and by typing in the show, song etc that I
am looking for in the box above Search Torrent site and then clicking
search torrent I have a large selection of Torrent sites to choose from.

I use Azureus to download, hasnt let me down yet.
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Rogerlz · Joined: 30 Nov 2006 Posts: 216 Location: Costa Rica

I use bitcomet, is very good!!!! but I think that some times becomes slow!!!

But try this one is very good!!! Look how it works and then tell me what do u think about it!!!
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andykang · Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 9:41 pm Post subject:

Bitcomet is a very popular P2P download software, I often download movies, music, all kinds of software, and so on by it. the speed of downlod
depends on how many torrent are, and how many user use it. the more user are,the quicker speed is.

escualida · Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 15

my favorite site for finding torrents is www.torrentz.com

also, I use Azureus to download all my files
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cakl · Joined: 14 Jun 2007 Posts: 2

The sites where you can find the .torrent file suppose "tracker" like thepiratebay.org, isohunt.com, mininova.org. There are two different sorts of trackers:

1) A open tracker like thepiratebay.org. On these trackers you can download files without a registration, but there you download slowlier than on a anti-leech-tracker (info: leech-download, seed-upload). Why ? Because on an open tracker nobody uploads stuff, and if someone upload stuff there are in 1min 100leechers who download that stuff...so the uploadspeed is splitted up to this 100 users, and each of the leechers download slowly!

2) Anti-leech-tracker like oink. On these trackers you must register to download! And there are rules: for example: you must keep a ratio (upload/download=1) and if the ratio falls under 1 they ban your IP.
Other rules: You must seed your downloaded stuff to a fileratio (upload/download=0,75-1) or 48hours. Because of these rules everybody is seeding and the download speed is very high.

I prefer a antileech tracker because on these you doesn't find viruses,worms,trojans or bad stuff (.rar,.zip archived with a password but the uploader doesn't give the password)! On the antileechtracker they are also honest about the content of the torrentfiles and the quality etc.

i hope i could help you and sorry for my bad english...contact me if you have more questions!

escualida · Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 15

cakl is there any way you could send me invitations to some of those anti-leech trackers? i don't know anyone that has a membership to them and i really want to get into one like demonoid.com

can you send me one? or do you know of anyone who can send me one? if so email me at [email protected]

thanks!
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