BitTorrent FAQ and Guide Welcome! If you are new to BitTorrent, this site should help clear up a lot of commonly asked questions. If you would like to contribute a question (and presumably the answer as well), please use the contact page and send me a note. Disclaimer: I am a Windows user, and so by default the answers will tend to apply to Windows if not otherwise stated. I've tried to include as much Linux and Mac information as I can. If you have anything to add on those subjects, by all means please contribute. Alternative Site This FAQ is also available in a different form at btfaq.com . Table Of Contents Use these links to jump to specific parts of this document, or just page down if you'd prefer to browse the whole thing. What is BitTorrent? How does BitTorrent compare to other forms of file transfer? Where can I download the BitTorrent program? What other BitTorrent-related utilities are out there? I've installed BitTorrent, now what? What is this Mandrake thing I'm invited to download after BitTorrent?
Firefox Extension for uTorrent WebUI The uTorrent WebUI can be used to access uTorrent from an external computer. This also opens the possibility to handle your torrents from your browser window. We've discovered a Firefox extension that makes using the WebUI a lot easier. The Firefox extension for uTorrent allows you to drag and drop .torrent links onto the WebUI window and shows the current upload and download speed in the status bar. The upload and download speed remains visible if you close the WebUI screen. In order to use the Firefox extension you need to install the WebUI, and have uTorrent up and running. WebUI in the Firefox sidebar & torrent speed indication in the taskbar You can use the Alt+U shortcut to show and hide the sidebar window, and try adding some torrents by dragging links to .torrent file onto the WebUI screen. You might also want to take a look at the Google Homepage widget for the uTorrent WebUI if you’re interested in more uTorrent gadgets.
Ten Most Used BitTorrent Sites Compared When I first began to use BitTorrent in 2004 there was little question as to which indexing site to use. Today, Suprnova is long gone and we are left with an array of diverse options. This is a comparison of today's ten most used BitTorrent sites according to Alexa.com. Ten Most Used BitTorrent Sites: I was rather surprised with these results, BTJunkie has nearly double the amount of torrents as the next leading competitor. BitTorrent. search engine is operated by the founder of the BitTorrent protocol, Brah Cohen. BushTorrent & TorrentR was surprised to find out these two sites shared the same index and operator. i in early 2004, this site flourished at the demise of Suprnova. Me basic site heavily integrated with usenext advertisements. Torr is the most popular BitTorrent site.
G3 Torrent Azureus : Java BitTorrent Client BitTornado BitTorrent Usage Guide: Learn how to use the most effective method of obtaining latest tv-series, movies and other entertainment > Linux Reviews > Software guides > Peer to peer file sharing > It allows distribution of very harge files quickly and effectivly because the outstream bandwidth is shared among the downloaders. BitTorrent is the ultimate file sharing tool for distributing huge files to a vast number of users. The tool is very popular for distributing Linux ISO images of the latest live-CD Linux distributions like Knoppix ( knoppix live cd ISO images ). The bittorrent ( official site ) clients needs a hash file for the actual file you will be downloading and a tracker which connects downloading clients together and keeps track of who has what parts of the file being distributed The information files with the tracker adress and the hash code are called torrents . You need to obtain the right torrent for the file(s) you want to download. bittorrent is the ultimate tool for 0-7 day hot software like Linux ISO images, movies, tv-series, music and anything else which can be stored digitally for that matter. Bad:
Torrent Search :: Torrent Finder :: Torrent Search Engine A Simple Way to Remotely Download Torrents on the Mac There are many ways to remotely initiate BitTorrent downloads, but most are complicated and require tweaking. Here's an easy way to remotely download torrents with only an instant messaging application and a BitTorrent client. The most common way to remotely download torrents is via a WebUI. On the Mac, the only BitTorrent client with a WebUI is Azureus, and that’s via a plug-in. Most people would find it confusing to open up ports in their software firewall to configure the plug-in, and TorrentFlux is strictly for über geeks. Here’s what you need to do: You will need to have either Adium or iChat+Chax installed. Now set up either Transmission (Beta), Azureus or Xtorrent to watch that directory for torrent files. That’s it, you’re done. Have you already tried this, and has it worked for you?
NowTors - Find Torrents In Real-Time! - Now 3547 people online! Get into Private BitTorrent Sites with Tracker Checker 2 Constantly checking private trackers for open signups can be a drawn out task. Some open only briefly and by the time one gets a tipoff, all the places have gone and registrations are closed again. Tracker Checker 2 automatically checks chosen sites for open signups, getting you into those elusive private sites with a minimum of effort. The Tracker Checker 2 installer is small at just under 130kb. Needing the .NET framework to run, it installs pain-free in seconds and with a click of the shortcut, it’s ready to find those elusive no-invitation-required open signups on private trackers. The software has a clear interface and comes with around 20 trackers pre-configured and ready to check. As you can see from the screenshot below, several sites are open for registration. By simply clicking on the site in the list you wish to signup to, followed by the globe icon, an instance of your web browser is launched and you are taken directly to the new account page and you are ready to signup.
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