To create your own torrent, you'll need a basic torrent client to get started off on the right path. Windows is primarily dominated by torrent program uTorrent , while Mac users will find that Transmission may be more up their alley.
Linux users may want to try Azureus or KTorrent. If you're still not sure about which application to use, check out the five best BitTorrent tools according to Lifehacker readers. In general, creating a torrent to share your own files is very simple. All you need is a good torrent program to get you started on sharing your personal files. In your favorite torrent program, go to the File menu and click the option to create a new torrent.
It can be a single file, or even a directory. After this step, you'll need to input some public or private trackers into your torrent. It's possible to use more than one, but in general one is enough. Here's a list of some uTorrent public trackers, courtesy of TorrentFreak :. After that's done, you'll need to specify whether your torrent is a private torrent or not if you're using a private tracker, you'll need to.
If you aren't, you can most likely leave this part alone. Unfortunately, most of the freely open, public trackers out there are sort of..
And the LegalTorrents tracker won't track files unless they are on its creator whitelist, which involves that manual sign-up process.
You've got precious few legit options for tracking, unless you're willing to take a trip to the wrong side of town, and associate yourself and your files with that kind of.. I wasn't. Fortunately, uTorrent has a solution: you can become your own tracker! Scroll down to bt. Now, let's create the torrent for the file we want to host, which will point to our newly created tracker. In uTorrent, click the Create New Torrent button. Select the file or directory you want to share. Share it with anyone and everyone!
The more the merrier! Pat yourself on the back; you just shared a file with the world using the transformative distribution power of BitTorrent! But you do have to keep uTorrent running as a desktop application all the time, which is sort of a bummer. What if you wanted to share your file on a server , or via a silent background process? No problem.
Obtain a copy of the user-defined service utilities , srvany. Copy them to the same folder as uTorrent. Issue this command to make uTorrent run as a service: instsrv uTorrent "C:uTorrentsrvany. Note that you must use the same account that you set uTorrent options with if you want the service to respect those settings, so plan accordingly.
Start the uTorrent service. Obviously, replace the above paths with the actual paths that you installed uTorrent to.
Bam -- you're sharing files with the world using BitTorrent, even when you're not logged in. If you intend to download any torrents, BitTorrent needs to be able to bypass the firewall. If you don't see a message to allow it automatically, see this guide for instructions on doing it manually. Set your preferences. Once BitTorrent is installed, open it up so you can set a few preferences before you get started. There are several options you should check before downloading torrents: Click the Directories option.
This page will allow you to set where new downloads will be placed. You can also have downloads move to a different folder after the download is finished. Click the Bandwidth option. You will be able to set the maximum limits for uploading and downloading, which is useful if you have a data cap. Setting these to "0" will make transfers happen at the maximum speed your connection allows.
Click the Queuing option. You can set how many different torrent files can upload and download at once. This setting can help you focus on one download at a time, or download many files at once.
You can also set your seeding goals, which dictates how long the file is shared for. Part 2. Find a torrent tracker website. There are a variety of websites that list torrents. Some are more reliable than others. There are two main types of torrent trackers: public trackers and private trackers. Public trackers are available to anyone. These are the sites you will find when doing a web search for torrent trackers. Because of their public nature, many torrents are tracked by copyright holders, and downloading copyright protected files, commercial software, etc.
Private trackers require invites. These sites are not accessible until you have been invited by another member. Private trackers are much less likely to result in cease and desist letters from copyright holders. Search for your desired file.
Most public trackers have every new show, movie, album, and game available, as well as popular old files. Use popular shorthand for finding the file you want. For example: if you want the third episode from the fifth season of "Law and Order" in an HD format, search for: "Law and Order s05e03 p" or "Law and Order s05e03 p". Download a torrent with plenty of seeders.
The speed at which you can download a torrent file is determined by several variables. A torrent with a largest number of seeders is one such desirable variable and having a low number of leechers is the other. The two interact together to affect how quickly a torrent can be downloaded. The other variables are not controlled by you really - as they consist of the connection speed that you have and the connection speed the seeders have. Most torrent sites allow you to sort search results by the number of seeders.
Look for files with a large number of seeders. Not only will you download it faster, but it is less likely that the file is fake or infected with a virus. The number of leechers will affect your download speed as well. A leecher is a user that is downloading, but is not currently seeding.
A leecher becomes a seeder when the full file has been downloaded. If there are significantly more leechers than seeders, the amount of bandwidth you receive will be lower, resulting in slower downloads. Find a balance between size and quality.
This is especially important when downloading video. Oftentimes, releases are available in a variety of file sizes. The difference in size is caused by the way the video and audio has been encoded.
In general, the larger the file the better the quality. Look for qualified torrent providers. Click them to learn the definitions. On the flipside, downloading a larger file can take significantly longer depending on your connection. Read as many comments as possible to determine if other users feel that the quality of the file is good and worth your time. Some trackers have a rating system which allows users to vote on if the file is good or not.
Download a magnet link if available. Magnet links are not an actual file and are instead a small snippet of text. This unique snippet will allow the torrent to match the content and download the correct files. Magnet files take one step out of the torrent process and reduce the risk of downloading a corrupted torrent file.
Open the torrent file with BitTorrent. If you set BitTorrent to be associated with. Your download will begin as soon as you are connected to your first seeder.
It can take some time to connect to seeders, especially if you have a poor connection or are downloading a weak torrent.
You can monitor your downloads in the main window of BitTorrent. Each file will have a progress bar next to it. Download a good movie player. Torrents can be used to transfer any file type, and many of the most popular movie formats are not supported by Windows Media Player or QuickTime.
You will need a video player that supports a wide variety of codecs and formats.
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