VinPetrol

im new to this lark and people have advised to use bit tornado, and bit torrent...i dont really know much about it tbh. are there any tips or good advice on offer?

thanks in advance

bigsinky

torents are quite old now. lots of sites now down like supernova.org. you should try direct connect. quite good for getting stuff.

hawkthescoobslayer

use a program called azureus to download the torrents

go to sites like mininova etc to view and choose the torrents to download.

i get all the top gear episodes for instance


of course i wouldn't condone illegal downloads of games movies etc etc

very very easy to do save torrent right click and open then azureus does the rest

suprabeast

i use bit tornado with no probs at all, just google bit torrent and you will find loads of info

http://www.bittorrent.com/FAQ.html

Milamber

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Jack Clark in 10,9,8,7,6........

darts_aint_sport

Microsoft are working on their own torrent client, should be interesting.

VinPetrol

azureus an mininova both want to charge me for the privalidge. bit tornado is free...


??

SiDHEaD

I've used torrents a couple of times, but generally for downloading TV shows and Legal stuff.

To get decent stuff I go on Direct Connect (with DC++).

Mr.Ripley

If your going for bit tornado go for the stable version and not the beta version.
Been using bit tornado for years now and never had a problem, you may need to configure your firewall though.
Isohunt is a good torrent site.

bearshare is a good p2p direct connect site.

VinPetrol

cool, iso hunt was highly recommended by a mate of mine. i'll take a look.

is bit tornado any good ?

Mr.Ripley

Yes bit tornado is the best client available IMHO. I can download 1.5gig in an hour, I have a 2meg broadband connection.
You will find with isohunt that some torrents will fail because you need to register to a dodgy spanish site, never register. There are sites out there you can join like a forum and you get guaranteed downloads, I hve been a member of 1 for years now, but you need to upload as much as you download, if not more, in order stay a member of this site.
I also use a prog called newsleecher which is twice as fast, but twice as complicated as torrents, its also not free. HTH

bioforger

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What youre doing is illegal btw, as someone has ripped it off tv for distribution. Youre in effect receiving stolen goods

hawkthescoobslayer

ironic isn't it

Dracoro

So this 'torrent' business is just some glorified FTP then? You go somewhere, you transfer a file to your PC?

pbee

if you use morpheus 5, people upload torrent links and you can download direct.

helpful if you are having trouble finding something specific on tornado ect.

VinPetrol

ok ok



so..bit torrent is good


iso hunt is dodgy and spannish.





is there somewhere other than iso hunt that is cool and free ?

hawkthescoobslayer

http://www.mininova.org/

http://thepiratebay.org/

both free to use

VinPetrol

thanks, jus taking a look now

Angry

Bit of useless info, Torrent traffic makes up one third of the total internet traffic, second only to ****!!

Dracoro

And I'll bet a lot of that torrent traffic IS ****!

bioforger

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http://empornium.us

Angry

Is that link SFW?

bioforger

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Nope

Angry

ta

wwp8

r u 1 of the good guys

bioforger

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Ive been known to walk in those circles

FASTER MIKE!!

i use bitcommet find it better than tornado as it save the torrent onto the program, abit like kaaza was but with out the p2p. also have a look on torrentreactor just to add i had no problem with isohunt

mike