Mobile/PDA About Us Advertise here
User User name Password  
  Not registered yet? Register here.
Lost your password? Click here. 		 
  Home   News   Guides   Downloads   Glossary   Hardware   Profiles   Forums   v4  
 Advertise at AfterDawn.com     Link to us!     Private messages     Compose a private message     List of all updated threads     Threads without replies     Search messages
Sunday 2.2.2025 / 08:29
Search AfterDawn Forums:        In English   Suomeksi   På svenska
afterdawn.com > forums > software, operating systems and more > windows - p2p software > bit torrent newbie guide?
Show topics
 
Forums
Forums
BIT Torrent Newbie Guide?
  Jump to:
 
Posted Message
loxley32
Junior Member
_ 		22. September 2003 @ 05:49 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hi .. is there a guide of some sorts for newbies - those of us that are interested in checking Bit Torrent out, but have no experience setting it up on our computer,l much less downlaoding and uploading? I have scoured the messages, but I cannot find a newbie guide. - or , as a newbie, should I go with WinMX, or maybe EMule? I just know that Kazaa lite has ALOT of files that are blank, broken or misnamed. thanks for any help.

[ + quote]

This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 22. September 2003 @ 05:53
fassa
Account closed as per user's own request
_ 		29. September 2003 @ 00:35 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
OK well here goes!

Kazaa = fast but fake broken downloads of big files...use only for music and small files.

Emule = slowish at first but goes faster the longer you use it (few days). No fakes and gooood files.

Bit Torrent = seems to me like perfect in betweener between kazaa and emule... not as fast (although I have d/l as 120 with 1mb/s line) but mine averages at 60/70 k/s)

Install Bit Torrent from the official site. I would also recommend using the official client as others allow you to set the upload speed...which izzzz not gooooddd. There will be no program to run so don't look for any in your start menu.

Search the web for torrent links and find one that have what you want. Go here for bunch of links: http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/42158

Once you find a link you will want to save the .torrent to your HD. Once that is done double click on the .torrent file. It will open the client GIU and ask you to pick a location to save the file to. Choose a location and click OK. The file will then start d/l and u/l at the same time. Please leave download GIU open after finished d/ling for few hours so others can still d/l from you.
Download speed WILL pick up after 1 or 2.

You can resume he file at any time. Just close BT window and when you want to resume open the torrent file and select where the partly d/led file is.

Hope this works...

Also try this links:
http://www.cen.uiuc.edu/~halm/newbie.html
http://www.cen.uiuc.edu/~halm/faq.html
[ + quote]
***>>--Stray--<<***
Dela
Staff Member
_ 		8. October 2003 @ 10:05 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
[ + quote]
Related links
What is a .torrent file? Click here for explanation.
 
Related forum topics Posts Last post Forum room
Google removes popular torrent client, LibreTorrent, from Play Store because it has too many copycats 1 20. December 2019 News comments
One of the most popular Torrent sites of all time brought back to life 1 18. December 2016 News comments
μTorrent now available ad-free for $4.95 a year 9 18. February 2016 News comments
Large public torrent tracker Demonii to shut down 1 4. November 2015 News comments
Torrent scene group YIFY shuts down permanently 5 4. November 2015 News comments
Chrome now blocking direct access to certain popular torrent sites 24 17. July 2015 News comments
UK police take down one of world's largest torrent sites for karaoke files 11 18. March 2015 News comments
EZTV, Zoink torrent sites recovering from Pirate Bay raid 2 11. December 2014 News comments
Torrent indexer Isohunt releases movie streaming Popcorn Time clone 'IsoPlex' 1 18. June 2014 News comments
Torrent uploader hit with $32 million lawsuit over UFC content 7 10. May 2014 News comments

 
afterdawn.com > forums > software, operating systems and more > windows - p2p software > bit torrent newbie guide?
 

Digital video: AfterDawn.com | AfterDawn Forums
Music: MP3Lizard.com
Gaming: Blasteroids.com | Blasteroids Forums | Compare game prices
Software: Software downloads
Blogs: User profile pages
RSS feeds: AfterDawn.com News | Software updates | AfterDawn Forums
International: AfterDawn in Finnish | AfterDawn in Swedish | AfterDawn in Norwegian | download.fi
Navigate: Search | Site map
About us: About AfterDawn Ltd | Advertise on our sites | Rules, Restrictions, Legal disclaimer & Privacy policy
Contact us: Send feedback | Contact our media sales team
 
  © 1999-2025 by AfterDawn Ltd.

  IDG TechNetwork