Saturday, 24 November 2012

HOW TO DOWNLOAD TORRENTS FILES

Introduction     

            Torrents files are files which end with .torrent extension, which stores metadata information used to download a larger target file, these files are divided into different pieces called chunks and is located through the metadata information found on the torrent file. The pieces of the target files are hosted by an unlimited number of different hosts with this method, torrents are able to download large files quickly. If all the chunks are downloaded the torrent client then combines them into a usable form.
            From this tutorial I will show you easy tips on how to start download of any torrent and how to increase the number of seeders, lechers, peers. Below are necessary definition of terms used  in this tutorial
  
Peer
A peer is any computer system that is downloading any torrents files on the internet and other computer system connects them to download data from, a peer usually does not have all the torrent pieces

Seed / Seeding

A Seed is a peer who has downloaded all of the data and seeding refers to leaving o for torrent client to continue to upload for other peers, to download from.

 Leech 

A leech has two meanings.

1. Refers to a peer (or peers) who downloads more than it uploads.
2. Also refers to any peer or clients who do not have 100% of the torrent been downloaded

Hash

The hash is a string of alphanumeric characters in the .torrent file which  the client uses to verify the data that is being transferred.

Client

The program that enables p2p file sharing via the BitTorrent protocol. Examples of clients include µTorrent, Vuze, bitcomet, you can get more types of client by

STEPS TO DOWNLOAD TORRENTS

1. Download and install any torrent client of your choice, I use bitcomet, u can get it from their homepage

2. Download the torrent file you want to download, torrent file end with .torrent  extensions


 3. Immediately the .torrent is downloaded open it with the torrent client.


4. Start download by clicking the download now button



And your torrent files starts downloading

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