Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options Harold Feit Posted April 15, I have selected to download 3 torrents and they all go red straight away. It says Thanks for looking into it - I havent got a clue!!! What version of BitTorrent?
Its 6. On the following pages, we'll not only show you how to get the most out of uTorrent, but out of BitTorrent in general. We'll cover both basic and advanced tips, and then toss in some of our favorite third-party add-ons for good measure.
Whether you're new to BitTorrent or a seasoned vet, there's something in this guide for you. Before diving head first into the world of BitTorrent, take some time to familiarize yourself with the protocol's language. For example, do you know the difference between a tracker and a leecher?
Why are leechers frowned upon, and how can you avoid becoming one? These are just some of the terms you'll need to know as you traverse the BitTorrent universe. Here's your handy cheat sheet:. Torrent: Lazy linguists sometimes substitute Torrent in place of BitTorrent, but it actually has a definition all its own.
A torrent is a small metadata file usually just a few kilobytes in size. It contains information about the file s you're trying to download, such as file names, file sizes, where to download, and so forth. The torrent file. Peer : Any other computer on the Internet which is both downloading and uploading portions of a file at the same time. Leech er : There are two meanings for this one. The most common definition of a leech is someone who disconnects and stops sharing a file as soon as they've obtained a complete copy.
The fewer people there are sharing a file, the longer it takes to download, and for this reason, leeching is highly discouraged. Peers who haven't finished downloading a file are also referred to as leechers, but not necessarily in a derogatory way.
Seed er : It's good etiquette to continue sharing a file even after you've finished downloading the entire torrent, if only for a short while. This practice is known as seeding. Reseed: When no more seeds exist for a particular file, then anyone who was actively trying to download it will be unable to finish. A reseeder is someone who has the completed torrent, reconnects to the swarm, and saves the day.
This includes peers, seeds, and leeches. Tracker: A central server which stores the torrents, coordinates the action of all the seeders, peers, and leechers, and manages the connections. The Pirate Bay TPB is the largest tracker on the Internet and often the center of media attention due to ongoing legal issues. Not all trackers are public; there are several private trackers which require a membership. A share rating of 1. Not everyone uses BitTorrent for, ahem, legitimate reasons, and for them, there are plenty of less scrupulous tracking sites littered all over the Web.
So where you can find legal torrents? As it turns out, there are a handful of resources serving up free and unrestricted content. These include:. Even though P2P file sharing technology is legal, many of the files exchanged via P2P are indeed copyrighted. Uploading these copyrighted files can put you at risk of a civil lawsuit. While these lawsuits are often class-action cases, some have been targeted at individual users in an attempt to make an example of them.
These companies have the power to collect your personal data and hand it over to third parties. This is especially important if you plan on downloading and sharing torrent files. Use the provided link to read all you need to know about this easy to use and highly powerful application. Make sure to sign-up for ExpressVPN and enjoy the Internet as it should be — open and without any privacy concerns. This will help you to understand why is seeding required and why you should never delete the files as soon as you download them.
The first important thing to understand is that you can seed torrents only if you have the fully downloaded torrent on your computer. You keep the files intact and you keep the torrent active in your torrent client. So if the availability is 1. Choked [ edit ] Describes a peer to which the client refuses to send file pieces.
A client How To Download Torrent Files chokes another client in several situations: The second client is a seed , in which case it does not want any pieces i. Client [ edit ] The program that enables peer-to-peerfile sharing via the BitTorrent protocol. See Comparison of BitTorrent clients. Downloader [ edit ] A downloader is any peer that does not have the entire file and is downloading the file. This term, used in Bram Cohen'sPython implementation, lacks the negative connotation attributed to leech.
Bram prefers downloader to leech because BitTorrent's tit-for-tat ensures downloaders also upload and thus do not unfairly qualify as leeches. In typical client operation the last download pieces arrive more slowly than the others. This is because the faster and more easily accessible pieces should have already been obtained.
In order to prevent the last pieces becoming unobtainable, BitTorrent clients attempt to get the last missing pieces from all of its peers. Upon receiving the last pieces a cancel request command is sent to other peers.
Fake [ edit ] A fake torrent is a torrent that does not contain what is specified in its name or description e. FreeLeech [ edit ] Freeleech means that the download size of the torrent does not count towards your overall ratio, only the uploaded amount on the torrent counts toward your ratio.
Grab [ edit ] A torrent is grabbed when its metadata files have been downloaded. Hash [ edit ] The hash is a string of alphanumeric characters typically hexadecimal in the. Torrent files contain information like the file list, sizes, pieces, etc. Every piece received is first checked against the hash. If it fails verification, the data is discarded and requested again.
Hash checks greatly reduce the chance that invalid data is incorrectly identified as valid by the BitTorrent client, but it is still possible for invalid data to have the same hash value as the valid data and be treated as such.
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