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Advicenators discussion: FAQ: bittorrent
theymos wrote Wednesday January 17 2007, 9:50 pm:
Bittorrent is a way to send big files. Often it is illegal to download certain files. Use at your own risk. This is a step-by-step on how to get started with bittorrent:
**download a client such as:
official- [Link](Mouse over link to see full location)
azureus- [Link](Mouse over link to see full location)
utorrent- [Link](Mouse over link to see full location)
bittornado- [Link](Mouse over link to see full location)
and others- [Link](Mouse over link to see full location)
**find the torrent you want from sites such as:
- [Link](Mouse over link to see full location)
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and others- [Link](Mouse over link to see full location)
**open the .torrent file with your client
**change the max upload speed to about 80% of it's maximum. Go to [Link](Mouse over link to see full location) to see what your max upload is, don't be downloading anything while testing.
**change the download port to something between 49152 and 65534. Do NOT use the range 49152–65534(or any huge range), do NOT use port 6881 do NOT use a port numbered anything under 49151.
**If you have a firewall, create an exception for the port or range of ports you chose above. Here's a handy guide:
[Link](Mouse over link to see full location)
your firewall also has a guide hidden in it's help files somewhere.
**Torrents take a few hours to warm up, expect the ETA to be a very large number for a while
**some torrents are just junk, find another
**some torrents contain malware, be careful
theymos wrote Tuesday April 24 2007, 7:37 am:
Bumping, as I use this often. You can link here using [Link](Mouse over link to see full location) .
theymos wrote Sunday May 27 2007, 9:08 am:
If you constantly run bittorrent and other P2P programs, I recommend you do not use a firewall. The firewall slows your connection down a bit, and doesn't actually offer much protection.
theymos wrote Friday October 12 2007, 1:48 am:
If you're uneasy about downloading an application, you can use bittorrent right from the web with bitlet:
[Link](Mouse over link to see full location)
"Torrent metafile URL" is just a link to the .torrent file.
When using bitlet, you will get a java warning. Bitlet is completely trustworthy, and you can safely accept that.
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