There are pros and cons using torrent to download. The pros, you will get a very quality file and later you can convert it into DVD. While the cons, it will take a longer time cause it’s totally depends on how many seeder at the point of time. I noticed that it will finish faster if you using torrent to download English TV Series and movies.
Below are some guide for those who wants to download movies/songs using Torrent
- Install Bittorrent or any torrent client such as ex: azureus, uTorrent
- You use torrent search engine to find .torrent text files around the Internet. These .torrent files vary from 15kb to 150kb file size, and are published by serious Torrent sharers around the world and popularly known as a seeder. Example of torrent search engine are mininova, torrentportal, the pirate bay and etc.
- You download the desired .torrent file to your folder
- You open the .torrent file into your torrent client that you just installed. Usually, this is as simple as a a double-click on the .torrent file icon, and the client software auto-launches.
- The Torrent client will now talk to a tracker server for 2 to 10 minutes. Specifically, the client and tracker server will search for other users who have the same exact .torrent file as you.
- As the tracker locates Torrent, each user will be automatically labeled as either a “leech/peer” or as a “seed” (users who have only part of the target file, versus users who have the complete target file). As you might guess, the more seeds you connect to, the faster your download will be. Commonly, 10 peers/leeches and 3 seeders is a good enough for downloading a single song/movie.
- The client software then begins the transfer. As the name “sharing” implies, every transfer will happen in both directions, “down” and “up” (leech and share).
- Once the transfer is complete, leave your Torrent client software running for at least two hours. This is called “seeding”, where you share your complete files to other users.
Suggestion: do your downloads just before you go to sleep at night. This way, you will seed your complete files, you will increase your upload/download ratio, and you will have complete downloaded files by the time you wake up.
2 Comments
November 8, 2008 at 9:12 pm
thank you for the nice explanation.
April 9, 2009 at 2:18 am
so we need to pay for these thing to work properly or is it free?