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    Why do people use torrents as a means to download things? Normal downloads, I find, are much faster

    So why do people use torrents?

    What are "seeds"?

    What are "swarms"?

    What are "peers"?

    What are "trackers"?

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    i am currently writing a tut on torrents

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    Sweet (h)

    Any idea when it'll be done?

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    meh Torrentz for warez that's all I use it for. I hate filehosting crap where u have to pay if u want to download more than like 100mb :s wats the point of the torrent if ur gonna pay anyway ?
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    I'm torrenting something that's 400 Meg. I didn't have to pay anything

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    Torrents are used to not kill the server (bandwidth) by making everyone do a bit of downloading and uploading... I think.
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    try to join a private server, usually you have some rules like seed everything 1:1 but downloads are really fast and the biggest advantage of torrenting is that if you stop downloading halfway down, it doesnt matter as you will resume from where you were
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    So why do people use torrents?
    Because it is far more cost, speed, and time effective than traditional methods of downloading.

    What are "seeds"?
    A seed is someone that already has the entire torrent and is only uploading it to others.

    What are "swarms"?
    Swarm is a collective term for all of the computers that you are connected to while downloading/uploading a torrent.

    What are "peers"?
    Peers are people that are downloading and uploading the file. A leecher would be one of those crooked ass bastards that hurts the torrent because they do not upload as much as they download.

    What are "trackers"?
    A tracker is a server used to coordinate all of the people downloading a torrent or at least that is my understanding of it.

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    Ah, thanks radio

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    Quote Originally Posted by rkroxpunk View Post
    meh Torrentz for warez that's all I use it for. I hate filehosting crap where u have to pay if u want to download more than like 100mb :s wats the point of the torrent if ur gonna pay anyway ?
    I meant sites like megaupload and that or did u download 400mb on that without paying? and suggest and private servers? do i ?
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    People use torrents instead of regular downloads to get stuff for free Like downloading video games and such.


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    I can get good torrents from demonoid that download at 500+ kbs. And yeah it's nice to be able to resume the download.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rkroxpunk View Post
    I meant sites like megaupload and that or did u download 400mb on that without paying? and suggest and private servers? do i ?
    Ooooh, got it

    I thought you meant you had to pay to torrent more than 100Mb at a time. My bad (h)

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    torrents rock, i use them everyday.there is nothing that is a more efficient way to move large files among large amounts of ppl,plus no dealing with fileserver junk, no mwmberships(unlessyou join one of the bittorent communities, which i recommend, give back some of what your taking)plus if you don't mind things being pirated, I get most movies before they hit the theater, sometimes cam rip but often good dvd quality screeners)
    edit: oh also a "tracker" is just a txt file that list what servers host a particulal "torrent"
    kinda organizes everybody and advertises your torrent you are trying to share.
    ie the more ppl with a file,(seeds) the faster you can download that file. please do everybody a favor and if you download a torrent, when it's finished seed for a couple of hours(it's only fair to maintain at least a 1-1 upload download ratio)

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    Lol I use azureus for my torrent downloading. Torrents are awsome. Best thing about azureus is its encrypted and what are you talking about paying for like 100mb? I'm downloading 8.7GB worth of stuff right now and I didnt pay anything lol.
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    Well everyone's told me that uTorrent is the fastest but I can't see how wat download client u use changes the speed of the download it's up to the seeders oh well....oh btw has anyone else got the Windows hack that lets u change the amount of people u let connect to ur computer for downloading. Example Windows only lets no more than 10 connect but someone made a hack that lets up to 16 billion or maybe million (lol) sources connect to ur computer. I watched my friends download speed go from 30 kbp/s to 500 when he changed to the highest amount 16 mil/bil.....whatever....downside is worms are so very very easy to get and sometimes it backfires and slows it down and other times it doesn't do anything lol. I changed mine to 200 but it suggests not to go over 100
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    Quote Originally Posted by rkroxpunk View Post
    Well everyone's told me that uTorrent is the fastest but I can't see how wat download client u use changes the speed of the download it's up to the seeders oh well....oh btw has anyone else got the Windows hack that lets u change the amount of people u let connect to ur computer for downloading. Example Windows only lets no more than 10 connect but someone made a hack that lets up to 16 billion or maybe million (lol) sources connect to ur computer. I watched my friends download speed go from 30 kbp/s to 500 when he changed to the highest amount 16 mil/bil.....whatever....downside is worms are so very very easy to get and sometimes it backfires and slows it down and other times it doesn't do anything lol. I changed mine to 200 but it suggests not to go over 100

    first to clear up some misconceptions
    first none of the clients are really better then others, just some have better interfaces(i personally use u-torrent) but new users usually find azureas easier to learn to use(sometimes a good torrent with lots of seeds will run at 700 or 800k but this dont happen very often, or for very long)

    second, any of the clients you can change the upload/download limits in the preferences(even limit upload to like 1kbs or lower)

    third, even if you pick up a worm/virus from a torrent, it is not active until YOU perform an action (like hit run),ALWAYS,ALWAYS,ALWAYS, virus scan anything you download, whether it's torrent, megaupload, or even email, or even worse p2p such as (bearshare (Yuck)) cause they all have a chance of bring in something but a good virus scanner will save a lot of heartache.

    good luck and happy autoing GEERHEDD

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    Quote Originally Posted by geerhedd View Post
    first to clear up some misconceptions
    first none of the clients are really better then others, just some have better interfaces(i personally use u-torrent) but new users usually find azureas easier to learn to use(sometimes a good torrent with lots of seeds will run at 700 or 800k but this dont happen very often, or for very long)

    second, any of the clients you can change the upload/download limits in the preferences(even limit upload to like 1kbs or lower)

    third, even if you pick up a worm/virus from a torrent, it is not active until YOU perform an action (like hit run),ALWAYS,ALWAYS,ALWAYS, virus scan anything you download, whether it's torrent, megaupload, or even email, or even worse p2p such as (bearshare (Yuck)) cause they all have a chance of bring in something but a good virus scanner will save a lot of heartache.

    good luck and happy autoing GEERHEDD
    so ur saying that the download clients already let u change how many u let connect?
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    yes, in the preference settings, go to the advanced,if you use utorrent, it will allow you to set connections for single torrents also, (ie, one setting for one torrent, a different setting for a different torrent)azureas is the same.

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    ooohhhh ty didn't know that lol stuff the hack
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    Quote Originally Posted by alach11 View Post
    I can get good torrents from demonoid that download at 500+ kbs. And yeah it's nice to be able to resume the download.
    You got an invite code that I can use, I keep trying to get in on demonoid but never can...I always forget to look on friday.


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    Soz bout double postage, but edit button not working =K

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    We torrent because we can...!!!
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