Torrent Downloads for Newbies

1. Before you start just downloading torrents you might want to think about having a torrent downloader.

1. http://www.utorrent.com/
2. http://bittornado.com/
3. http://www.bitcomet.com/
4. http://bittorrent.com
5. http://pingpong-abc.sourceforge.net/changes.php
6. http://www.shareaza.com/
7. http://xbtt.sourceforge.net/
8. https://sourceforge.net/projects/g3torrent/
9. http://www.analogx.com/
10. http://krypt.dyndns.org:81/torrent/index.phtml

Personally I recommend Utorrent.

2. Now for those of you who may be new to torrents an important concept to grasp is the concepts of Seeds, Peers, And Leechers

• Seeders = People who have downloaded the torrent and are uploading for others to also download
• Leechers = People who just download and give nothing back
• Peers = People who are both uploading and downloading

The more seeds a torrent has the faster the speed of the download is going to be.

3. Now there are always going to be those few torrents that you will complain about the speed of downloading.

Well there are many different sites to help with the torrent downloaders themselves which you can use google for :P.

However one program that I have found that is very useful is PeerGuardian 2 http://phoenixlabs.org/pg2/

Here is the description straight from the site "PeerGuardian 2

PeerGuardian 2 is Phoenix Labs' premier IP blocker for Windows. PeerGuardian 2 integrates support for multiple lists, list editing, automatic updates, and blocking all of IPv4 (TCP, UDP, ICMP, etc), making it the safest and easiest way to protect your privacy on P2P."

*Make sure you enable the P2P option*

4. Now there are a lot of sites you can dl torrents from. If you don't know which one you like best then a good place to start is http://torrents.to/

If you are the kind of person that will seed for torrents A nice place if you can catch the registration period or know a person that can invite you would be: http://www.demonoid.com/

5. Just experiment and you'll figure everything else. Its quite Simple

6. Have fun and enjoy the freeness :P