How to verify & download healthy torrents

This hub is totally dedicated to the beginners of torrent downloaing.

This will teach you how to use and download a torrent file. Although, you have to be careful because many torrents are illegal and violate copyright laws.

1. Find a torrent program that will suit your needs, the most common clients are µTorrent, Vuze, and BitTorrent, . There are plenty of other clients available as well.You can go to this Wikipedia Research list and find the most appropriate: Wikipedia Research
2. Choose the best p2p client from the list but the most recommended is Vuze-fastest p2p client ever.

Follow the instructions on downloading and installing your chosen client.

Now the dilemma comes what & how to download?

The answer is easy you can download mostly everything you want but follow these:-

1. Go to a torrent site and search for a file you want to download. Many can be found by searching the web. There are many torrent sites which can be reviewed and used from this link: Net for beginners : Most popular 40 torrent sites
2. Now go to the torrent site and search for the desired files... the most important thing to know is torrent downloading are totally based on the number of seeds and peers.....they are not hosted on any server....It will be discussed in the next section.....
3. now if you have found the desired file ...there will be an option for you to download the torrent file or download from the magnet link as shown in the pics below.

• Now open the file with vuze.
• It will automatically start downloading it.You may now go and do something to pass the time, because torrents do not require your attention and will download in the background.

If you follow some basic rules BitTorrent is without a doubt the best way to share large files online. Interestingly, BitTorrent’s inventor ,Bram Cohen, recently noted that torrents with more peers are not always faster. We give some pointers on what torrents will guarantee the best download speeds.

Many BitTorrent users are looking for the holy grail that will boost their download speeds to the maximum, and tweaking your client can indeed help a bit. However, selecting the right torrents is far more important, and those are not necessarily the torrents with the most peers.

Bram Cohen, the inventor of the BitTorrent protocol addresses this common misconception in a recent blog post.

“Cohen designed BitTorrent to be able to download files from many different sources [...] the more popular a file is, the faster a user will be able to download it, since many people will be downloading it at the same time, and these people will also be uploading the data to other users,” writes Cohen while quoting an erroneous article.

This is indeed an explanation we often hear – the more people who download a file the better – but unfortunately it’s not very accurate. Or to put it in Cohen’s words, this description of BitTorrent is “somewhere between grossly misleading and wrong.”

Cohen goes on to explain why: “There’s a classic fallacy because if one person stands up during a concert they get a better view, then if everybody stood up during a concert they’d all get a better view. This is of course is not true – they wind up slightly worse off by all standing, because they all compete with each other for a view.”

So how do you get the most out of BitTorrent then? Or to put it differently, what torrents perform the best and generally give you the fastest download times? We’ll try to explain it as simply as possible leaving math out as much as possible.

The fastest torrents will be those where downloaders (leechers) can tap into the most upload capacity. If you have a swarm (seeders and leechers) with a hundred people in total it will be faster when there are relatively more seeders. Why? Very simply it’s because seeders don’t download while their upload capacity is available for the leechers.

Many people understand these basics. A torrent with 30 seeders and 70 leechers (30% seeders) will go faster than one with 10 seeders and 90 leechers (10% seeders). However, it get confusing when you compare swarms of different sizes.

For example, a torrent with 30 seeders and 70 leechers (30% seeders) will generally be faster than one with 500 seeders and 2500 leechers (20% seeders). Why? Simply because the swarm has a smaller percentage of seeders. When picking the right torrents to download, the percentage of seeders that a swarm consists of is the most important thing to look at.

A higher percentage of seeders means that the average upload capacity available to the leechers will be higher. The fact that leechers also upload themselves is irrelevant because all peers have more download capacity than upload capacity. The seeders make the difference.

This is one of the reasons why private trackers generally have such great download speeds. Since users are required to seed as much as possible, they have torrents with 100 seeders and only two or three leechers.

So what can we learn from this? If you’re looking for fast torrents pick those with the best seeder/leecher ratio or the highest percentage of seeders. Or when you don’t have a choice, don’t complain about slow speeds when there are only a few seeders in a large swarm. Perhaps even more importantly, remember to seed as much as possible if you don’t need your upload speed for something else.

Remember:-:Peers have more Download capacity then upload you had them reversed there.As asymmetrical broadband is the most widespread leading to a ratio of DL/UL of approximate 10/1

• Seeders (Seeds) [Upload]: Are people who have a complete copy of the torrent's files and are only uploading (sending) data to the people who are downloading (receiving).
• Leechers (Peers) [Download]: Are people who are currently downloading the file. Leechers can become seeders after downloading the full file.
• Keep your virus protection program up to date. There are free anti-virus programs, top-of-the-line, such as Microsoft Security Essentials (Recommended by me), AVG,Avira and Avast. If you do happen to get a virus, remove it .
• A practical tip is to stick with downloading torrents that have a large user base. This means download only those torrents that many people have downloaded and uploaded, or that have been active for a long time. The logic here is that nobody will seed a torrent that has a virus in it and therefore the torrent won't be very popular and won't be seeded. Be wary of the week old torrent with one or two people seeding it.
• There are other torrent clients (programs) that can be used so do your research on these also. The most popular torrent programs are uTorrent, Azureus and BitTorrent as mentioned above.
• There are Torrent search engines that search the popular torrent clients (programs). This saves you time by not having to search each individual torrent client site.
• When looking for torrent files, prefer ones with plenty of Seeders so that the file downloads quickly. When searching for torrents, you can often sort the results by seeds, simply by clicking on the seeds column header.
• You can set the options in your web browser to download to a specific folder and then, using the options in your torrent client, enable torrents to be automatically loaded from that same folder you have chosen. This way, the torrents will automatically load for you with minimal effort. It's possible that a torrent client does not have the auto-load option, I know that uTorrent does have this ability in Preferences.
• You can leave the torrent program running overnight to download while you're away from the computer, or close it and turn off the computer to save power. Most torrent programs will have an option in Preferences to start up with your computer and this option can be enabled/disabled by opening "Run..." from the Start Menu and typing in "msconfig". Most torrent programs will resume the download process automatically when you start them back up. If the download doesn't resume automatically, there should be an option to start downloading, by either right clicking on the file and choose "Start" or a button somewhere in the program.

• Be warned the law is changing, and you could be tracked down for copyright infringement. (However, downloading music and movies in Canada is legal for personal use.)
• Downloading torrents can slow your computer down depending on how well your computer performs. Recommended specs for each client vary, but on average you should have at least 512 MB of RAM and a 1 GHz CPU. You will also need space for the files you want to save.
• In certain jurisdictions it is illegal to download content through peer to peer networks such as bittorrent. There is a program which blocks certain IP addresses from communicating with your computer and can help protect you while downloading. PeerBlock can be found at: [Peerblock]
• Keep your anti-virus program and its definitions fully up-to-date, downloaded software from 'sharing' sources carries a high risk of infection.
• Downloading torrents can slow your overall internet connection down if you don't properly tweak your upload rate. DSL and Cable modems have problems downloading if you're uploading at your maximum rate. Set your clients maximum rate to 80% of your maximum upload rate if you can adjust it. If you set your upload rate too low, your downloads will slow to a crawl.
• It's important to know about bittorrents so that you know the risks, consequences, and best practices.
• Make sure you check the comment section before downloading, if there is one, to see if the torrent is real or not.
• Torrenting is a bandwidth intensive act which is frowned upon by some ISPs, leading them to throttle any Bittorrent traffic, slowing down your downloads or even stopping them altogether. Traffic encryption can solve this, but it may or may not work.
• As with any bandwidth intensive application, make sure you know how much data you've transferred if your ISP implements a quota system (90 GB/mth). Remember that finished torrents are seeded (uploaded to others) when the torrent job is running and you might exceed your ISP quota unintentionally.