Dec
29
2006
BitTorrent, the future of downloading
Posted by: ipp in Cool Tutorials, Technology, tags: BitTorrent, OptimizationCable companies report that 55% of traffic in the US is due to torrents. What is a torrent? Well it is a peer to peer network which can deliver insanely fast download speeds at no cost for the hoster! It also puts a nice cloak on whoever put the file out there, which means you can get almost any song or software. Including the new Windows Vista for free!
To get started you will need to get a torrent client here are my recomendations per OS, if you want one client to handle any OS you can get Azureus but it can be a memory hog and slow down your machine.
- Windows: utorrent, it is free small and very memory efficient meaning it won’t slow your computer down.
- Linux: rtorrent, like utorrent but for linux.
- Mac OS X: you can get rtorrent if your brave, or Transmission if you like a gui.
Now after you installed it you can go to a torrent tracker and search for you want such as Torrentz.com or ThePirateBay.org.
How to improve your speeds!
- Set up port forwarding or DMZ for the computer running the torrent, you should look in your torrents preferences for the port range. Their are no ports dedicated for torrents anymore due to ISP’s putting restrictions on those ports.
- Put a cap on your upload speed, I suggest capping it to 20kbps but you can always look at what the max seems to be and dividing it by 2.
- If you are on windows xp sp2, chances are it is only going to allow 10 connections which will kill your download speed, use this program(mirror) to change that number, any number between 50 and 100 should be fine.
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Just a little blurb from me since i use Linux… i set my max connections to 1000. Some torrents will get uber fast, and its a good feeling. Thats only when no one else in the house is using the internet.
um yea this is all fine and dandy but what about for us who were never given a system disc with our pc?
You shouldn’t set your connections too high. This will actually decrease your speeds on each individual torrent. I personally use a program called “Azureus.” I get generally high download speeds. They have also have a wiki (http://azureuswiki.com/), which gives you answers to the most common problems and information on optimal settings for the client.
hey i dont think you guys should just openly advertise bittorrent like this
i mean i dont want any more leechers and i dont want the mpaa and copyright feds to start cracking down just because of some noobs who dont know what trackers to look for
Well there will always be leechers so there is never gonna be any stoping that. As for the mpaa, and © feds comming you good luck on them trying to even enforce the problem only becuase since they cant do anything about it becuase they are not getting the ‘whole’ file form you only bits of it which under the law is not illegal, so they cant enforce something that they have no control over. It is a fine line yes but we are keeping our feet on our side by downloading only little pices from others not the whole file from 1 person, which then in turn makes it illegal and the cracking comes.
As for trackers… frainkli I only trust 1 maybe 2 places, and thoes have never let me down with seeders at all which is great, there will always be leechers again but they are low from my 2 places, as they show who is leeching and who is seeding via s webpage(which I am finding harder to find nowadays.. truthful ones that is).
But BT I say advertise away, there will be people who see this and say weeeee and actualyl seed and others will leech… for me it has been 80/20 favor in seeding… so I am happy.
well i guess i see it your way
we should all be happy about the expansion of a great thing
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