How many of you use torrents ?
By yasaran
@yasaran (788)
India
7 responses
@rockerwitch (538)
• Philippines
4 May 07
Actually, Bittorrent, Utorrent, Bitcomet and Bittornado are software you need to download torrents. However, torrents are these files that are useful for sharing large files. they're the ones you download.
for me, the best torrent site is btjunkie.com because I find that they have the most number of torrents. Next is isohunt.com, and then thepiratebay.org. like another person said, demonoid.com is one of the best, but they require registration if you want older torrents.
The speed of your download depends on the speed of your internet provider. Broadband are usually very fast. I suggest that you download and install a program called Flashget along with one of the torrent softwares mention. You can open the downloaded torrent in Flashget. It's a download accelerator software so it really helps with the speed.
If you choose torrents, choose the ones with the most number of seeders. It's always indicated there how many seeders there are. Also, always check all information available about the torrent. read the comments because some of them might be fake or broken or whatever.
I've been using torrents for a while now and I find them very effective and easier because with only one torrent, I can get one whole season of a tv show.
@willfe (149)
• United States
30 Apr 07
BitTorrent is a useful "swarming" protocol to help distribute the bandwidth consumption among everybody interested in a particular file. It's optimized for bigger files (disc images, software distributions, movies and videos, ZIP archives, etc.) but works just fine for smaller ones.
The original contents of an individual "torrent" only need to be transmitted by the uploader (the "seeder") once -- if all the clients ("peers") stay connected to the swarm as they download their copies of it, they start sharing the pieces they have with each other *in addition* to the original seeder.
Once another peer has a full copy, they become a seeder too. If a hundred people start downloading from one seeder, all one hundred peers will see a "slow" transfer at the beginning. But as each peer gets a different piece finished, suddenly every peer has a piece that no other peer has, and can share with them. Now every client can download from two or more sources instead of the original one. The BitTorrent protocol optimizes this process so that each peer sends the most-needed pieces it has available, so that the swarm has more copies in total (even if not many peers have all the pieces).
For movies, videos, software, etc., http://mininova.org/ is a great place to look. http://demonoid.com/ is good too, but they have limited registration periods sometimes (you have to be a registered user to get at their goods; mininova doesn't care).
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@squrrly26 (556)
• United States
30 Apr 07
I use torrents and the site I use is bitcomet. It is easy to use and has some pretty good feature to it. Of course Bitcomet is just an application to use to download your torrents with. mininova,iso hunt and demonoid are some good sites to find the torrents on. Hope this helps.
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@gizmo528 (731)
• United States
30 Apr 07
I've used both of the following torrent download sites www.mininova.org and www.meganova.org. The program that I use to get the torrents would be BitSprit or UTorrent. You can check them out and maybe someone else on those sites can give you more links or other places to check out.
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