All About Bit Torrent
Welcome we have posted this information, after receiving many requests from our web site FAQ page for more detailed information about Bit Torrent. The following is written in simple easy to follow language and makes no attempt to be technical or scholarly regarding the Bit Torrent protocol. This information is presented for people who may not have ever used Bit Torrent and may not understand completely how and why to use it. Read through the questions and answers and you should be able to set up your computer and be able to use bit torrent files without problems. Also take a look at the resources page there you will find helpful links if you still have questions.
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How Does Bit Torrent Work? Wherecan I find files to download? Ismy IP address visible when I download torrent files? Howdo I set up my computer to use Bit Torrent ? Where doI find Torrent search engines ? Can Idownload torrent files anonymously? Howdo I install a bit torrent client software? Whatare leeches, seeders, a swarm and trackers and why do I need to knowwhat they mean? What are the TOP Bit TORRENT SOFTWARE CLIENTS? How do Iunlock rar .bin and .cue files? Whatmedia player or players do I need to play bit torrent files? Whatare Codecs and where can I find the ones I need? Is it Legal to useBit Torrent? Yes. Bittorrent is merely an application that allows large files to betransferred over the internet using a minimum of bandwidth.back to top WhereCan I find Torrent files to download? To findtorrent files you need to use special search engines, called trackers.Some of the most popular ones are, Isohunt.com, Piratebay.com,tvtorrent.com, bitoogle.com and legal torrents.com. This last one has aselection of files that are all legal to download. Ismy IP address visible when I am downloading torrent files? Yes.It is possible for other people to see your IP address. Where doI find torrent search engines? CAN Idownload torrent files anonymously? You can try. There areseveral software products that you can buy or pay a fee for. Steganosis a product that has had good reviews. It is free to try and thencosts about $49.95 In the area of free products The EFF (the electronicfrontier foundation) ,a non profit group that is dedicated to privacyonline has developed a two part application. A software program calledPrivoy and a network called Tor. Togetherthey work to keep your IP address masked by sending your signal throughseveral different routers. This system is not fool proof. You still canbe visible to others when you are downloading, but it makes itdifficult to track you. Nothing is totally fool proof so keep that inmind. The EFF.ORG web site is a good place to visitfor more details and information. WHATARE THE TOP BIT TORRENT SOFTWARE CLIENTS? Azureus uTorrent ABC Bit Comet BitTorrent You can finddownloads for almost all of these clients at Sourceforge.netwhich is a resource portal for open source developers. Be careful thatthe download site does not ask for payment all these software clientsare free. Download. COMis also a reliable source for downloading or finding a mirror. Whatare leeches, seeders, a swarm and trackers and why do I need to knowwhat they mean? These are all terms that are usedwhen downloading bit torrent files, you should know what they mean soyou can understand the bit torrent P2P process. Leeches are people who download but donot upload or allow sharing of their files. Seeders or seeds are people who are sharing theirfiles as they download news ones. A swarm is a group of people who all haveparts of a torrent file or an entire file on their computer and aresharing; using a simultaneous upload download process. A trackeris a server that manages the bit torrent file transfer process. Here are thesteps: In orderto download and use bit torrent files you need to do somepreparation work. Here are the things you need to do to prepare todownload and use Bit Torrent files. Step by step instructions for someof the items are included just click to get to them. 1. You willneed to download Bit Torrent client software. This smallapplication handles all the details of the upload/download, P2Pprocess. These are free and available on the web. Take a look at themost popular ones below and the brief notes about each one. Bit Torrent.Com The original client software. Mostpopular with programmer geeks and Mac users. Azuerus Loaded with extras some of which you may not reallyneed demanding on the CPU. Utorrent Very popular because it uses very few of yourcomputer's resources but has lots of features that make yourdownloadingeasier. ABC (another bit torrentclient) Includes features like controlling multiple downloads from asingle window, automatic seeding and queuing. Bit Comet Is a small and fastclient it also uses very few computer resources. For Macs OSX clients are: Tomato Torrent Very customizable,supports Apple script and a user interface for starting a tracker. Bits on Wheels Impressive, andcompletely written for the Mac. 2. If youare using a software firewall, like Zone Alarm, Panda, Kerio ,AVG etc.and or the windows XP fire wall you will need to configure them toaccept bit torrent files. For windows XP the steps are simple.Clickhere to follow the steps 3. Searchfor Torrent files to download. A good place to start, and totest your system setup and make sure everything is workingproperly, is Legal Torrents .com. All the torrents on the site arelegal down loads. One that we recommend is Blue, ashort video but there are lots more to choose from. If you are usingAzuerus or most of the other clients you will not even need to startthe client. Once you click on the torrent file at Legal Torrents.comyour software will start automatically and do all the preliminary work.It will start and open a screen with your download/upload process. Ifyou want to expand your search then use one of the following specialtorrent search engines listed below. These search engines you willlocate a wide range of files. Games, TV shows, animations, videos,music and movies. Isohunt.com PirateBay.com Tvtorrents.com Torrentmatrix.com Torrentspy.com LegalTorrents.com BitTorrent.com (A tip ifyou are using Firefox as your browser, Firefox offers a plug-in for theIsohunt.com search engineClickhere and also the VLC (videolan client ) a crossplatform media playerclick here 4. When youfind the files you want you are directed to click on them or selectthem. 5. Yourclient software will take over and do all the necessary prep workGetting the pointer file locating a swarm (a group of people who havethe pieces of the file you want) and will start the download/ upload orp2p sharing sequence. 6.Yourclient software will show you on the screen when your file hascompletely downloaded. You should then leave your client running and itwill seed parts of your file back to the P2P swarm. the longer youallow your files to seed the better download speed you will receive inthe future. Remember the principle of bit torrent more sharing equalsbetter sharing. 7. Enjoyyour torrent files!. Some files may need a special codec (a softwarethat compresses a video or audio file so that it can be transmitted andsave bandwidth) for them to play on your windows media player QuickTimeor VLP player. A few steps again to find what you need. Next issueto enjoying your files might be properly decompressing the format thatthey downloaded in. Movies mightcome in .rar .bin/cue or .dat compression formats. In orderto play them you need to decompress them. Read the answer below forhelp with this. How do Iplay or use .bin, .rar and .cue files? In order toplay files with the above extensions you need a software program thatwill decompress the files. The files are compressed in order to maketheir transfer over the internet faster. Winrar is a program that cancompress and decompress large files. In order to play a torrent fileyou have downloaded that is in .rar format your need to use winrar todecompress it. Winrar is free to try and the it costs $29.00 you canget ithere. Another application that is used for compressing anddecompressing is Stuffit. It comes standard with Apple computers. Stillanother alternative to Winrar is 7Zip, it is completely free. You canget it at Sourcefordge.netclickhere Next youwill need to install a virtual cd/dvd emulator on your computer. This apiece of software that acts as if it is an actual cd/dvd/ dvdromoptical hardware drive to play the files. Daemon tools, is an advancedemulation program which allows you to emulate optical drives and playmovies. This is a free application and can be downloaded here.Once you have installed the virtual drive you are ready to proceed. The nextstep is to find your main .rar. file and decompress it. To do thisclick on the start menu, then click my computer. Look in your main harddrive for your files. You will find a list of .rar. files and the mainfile will be recognizable by a stack of three mini books. Rightclick on that file and a menu will come up select "extractto". It is a good idea to put that folder on your desk top, orsomewhere easy to find later. Then click yes and winrar will startextracting. When winrar has done its work you will have a .bin and a.cue file. Now you needto setup your optical cd/dvd drive and mount the file. To do thatfollow these steps. 2. Choose a virtualcd/dvd-rom letter with no device listed. This meansit is available to become your new virtual drive. 3. Nextselect mount image and choose a drive letter. 4.Browse tofind your .cue file that you extracted with winrar. 5.After apause a dialog box will open and ask you what to do with the file.Select open folder to view files. 6.After ashort pause another dialog box will open showing folders with ext, megand vcd. Open the mpeg folder and you should see the movie in avi...dat or mpeg format. 7.In thisfolder look for the main movie file. It will be about 500,000kb orlarger and will avi, .dat or .bin after the name. Double click and seeif it will open in windows media player. If not try to pen it in theDivx player. 8. If themovie still won't play try the Videolan player, VLC this player readsfiles avi formatted that are from Europe. Whatmedia players do I need to play bit torrent files? The threeall purpose players that should handle any files are; Windows mediaplayer, VLC player and Divx player. You can download these at thefollowing locations. VLC click here Divx click here WindowsMedia Playerclickhere Whatare codecs and where can I find the ones I need? Codecs aresoftware used to compress and or decompress large digitalmedia files. You cansearch on the web for codecs that you might need. If you are usingwindows media player you can find codec plugins at microsoft's website. Fourcc.org is a web site where you can search for what youneed also. Still having trouble? you can try videoinspector fromkcsoftware.com and if you are not sure what codec you needyou can go towww.codeccorner.com for help. Wherecan I find a directory of Bit Torrent Resources? Here aresome helpful web sites and resources that should provide everything youneed and answer any unanswered questions. A Directory ofhelpful resources: Brian'sFAQ www.btfaq.com Vladd.44 www.vlad44.com BitTorrent.Com www.bittorrent.com Sourceforge.net www.sourceforge.net eff.org www.eff.org Videoinspector can determine which codec you need and kcsoftware.com is another goodsource for codec help. MicrosoftWindows codec page can be foundhere Free-Codecs.com Hackaday.com Ipchicken.com Filext.com/index.php is helpful if you find something youhave never heard of, such as m4a or.daa Testmy.net, is ahelpful web site for testing your connection once you have yoursoftware client setup. |
