Torrents are great, they are the best way to share large
files with your friends, or even with people you don't know at all. But
surprisingly enough, not many people create torrents when they need to share
something. I have "a lot of" friends who know how to download
torrents, but when they need to send me their latest 200MB vacation picture
collection, they ask me to "get on msn".
It’s not that I have anything against msn (although the file
transfer sucks), but why don’t just use BitTorrent? Especially if you want to
send something to more than one person, or if you want to share high quality
HDTV files, because then you can share the bandwidth.
So how do you do this? Well it’s very simple. Open your
favorite BitTorrent client and do the magic trick:
file > create torrent
That’s all? Well almost. All you need to do now is put in
the tracker info and tick some boxes. This can differ somewhat from client to
client but it all comes down to the same thing.
uTorrent
1. File > Create new Torrent (or CTRL + N)
2. Select the files and or directories
2. Select the files and or directories
3. Trackers: This is probably the hard part for most
people. But it’s pretty easy, just put in one of the popular public trackers.
You can use one or more trackers, but in general one is enough.
Here are some good trackers you can use:
http://open.tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce
http://www.torrent-downloads.to:2710/announce
http://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce
udp://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce
http://www.sumotracker.com/announce
Put one of these in the tracker box
4. Do NOT tick the private torrent box (unless you’re
using a private tracker)
5. Save the torrent and send it to your friends
Bitcomet
1. File > Create Torrent (or CTRL + M)
2. Select the files and or directories
3. Select “enable public DHT network” from the dropdown
box
This way you can be your own tracker if the public tracker goes down.
This way you can be your own tracker if the public tracker goes down.
4. Tracker server and DHT node list
Again, This is probably the hard part for most people. But it’s pretty easy, just put in one of the popular public trackers. You can use one or more trackers, but in general one is enough.
Again, This is probably the hard part for most people. But it’s pretty easy, just put in one of the popular public trackers. You can use one or more trackers, but in general one is enough.
Here are some of the most popular trackers at the moment:
http://open.tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce
http://www.torrent-downloads.to:2710/announce
http://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce
udp://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce
http://www.sumotracker.com/announce
Put one of these in the tracker box
5. Save the torrent and send it to your friends
Azureus
1. File > New Torrent (or CTRL + N)
2. Tick “use an external tracker”.
And again, This is probably the hard part for most people. But it’s pretty easy, just put in one of the popular public trackers.
And again, This is probably the hard part for most people. But it’s pretty easy, just put in one of the popular public trackers.
Here are some of the most popular trackers at the moment:
http://tracker.prq.to/announce
http://inferno.demonoid.com:3389/announce
http://tracker.bt-chat.com/announce
http://tracker.zerotracker.com:2710/announce
Put one of these in the tracker box
3. Select single file or dicectory, click NEXT and
point to the file or directory you want to share, and click NEXT
4. Do NOT tick “private torrent”
5. Do tick “allow decentralized tracking”
6. Save the torrent and send it to your friends
& you are done.....
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