Alan B
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| posted on 13/1/06 at 04:50 PM |
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Torrents...what are they??
I keep hearing the word, what are they? how do they work?
Cheers,
Alan
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flak monkey
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| posted on 13/1/06 at 04:53 PM |
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Its file sharing.
Torrents work by downloading and uploading at the same time.
They hog a rediculous amount of bandwidth.
See here for an explanation of how they work:
http://www.bittorrent.com/introduction.html
David
Sera
http://www.motosera.com
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Alan B
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| posted on 13/1/06 at 04:57 PM |
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Thanks....interesting....but I'm still virtually clueless......
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flak monkey
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| posted on 13/1/06 at 05:03 PM |
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They are basically used for the sometimes legal, and often illegal prcatice of filesharing over the internet.
You and anyother person with Bit Torrent (or any of the other torrent programs) installed on their PC can look at eachothers shared files and folders,
then download from eachothers hard drives. Obviously you can share pretty much anything.
Thats about all there is to it. Its just a different way fo file sharing.
David
Sera
http://www.motosera.com
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Alan B
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| posted on 13/1/06 at 05:07 PM |
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ah a bit like that very well known one (who's name escapes me) ...kazoo or something?
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ned
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| posted on 13/1/06 at 05:34 PM |
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think you mean kazaa or however its spelt Alan 
Ned.
beware, I've got yellow skin
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Peteff
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| posted on 13/1/06 at 05:39 PM |
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Look for bittorrent or utorent or bitcomet on google. These are torrent programs then you can find torrent sites like uknova and such where the
torrents are hosted. As you download your computer leeches off people downloading the same torrent as you until someone joins who has less than you
and you become a seed, so you can seed others at the same time as you leech. It's a slow process though but if you leave your computer on when
you are not using it and pause it when you are busy it's not too bad.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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carcentric
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| posted on 13/1/06 at 05:47 PM |
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Pontiac Torrent
This is a Torrent over here:
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Jasper
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| posted on 13/1/06 at 07:27 PM |
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Torretns have a great advantage over P2P like Limewire and Kazaa in that you can download folders of items, not just individual files.
An example of this if you're into music is with P2P you spend ages finding the tracks to make an album and download them individually, but with
torrents you could download the entire back catalogue of a band or artist with every album with the correct tracks in its own folder in a single
download. If that makes sense.
Have a hunt around the with Google, there are a few good guides out there.
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RoadkillUK
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| posted on 13/1/06 at 07:28 PM |
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HERE is a link to Slyck's Guide to bittorrents.
Pretty useful and the list of Websites is updated regular too.
Roadkill - Lee
www.bradford7.co.uk
Latest Picture (14 Sept 2014)
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steve_gus
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| posted on 13/1/06 at 08:06 PM |
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just go to
http://www.mininova.org
search for what you want.
to get it you need a client - it will show you how to download uTorrent.
when you click on the link of the file you wanted, windows comes up with the normal 'save as' prompt. save it. it will go into uTorrent
and start the download.
read uTorrents FAQ and it will tell you how it works
atb
steve
http://www.locostbuilder.co.uk
Just knock off the 's'!
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RazMan
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| posted on 13/1/06 at 10:21 PM |
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Its the biggest source of music (and porn) files on the net - I use Azeurus and often see that over a million people are on line, all sharing files.
Cheers,
Raz
When thinking outside the box doesn't work any more, it's time to build a new box
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Dale
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| posted on 13/1/06 at 10:29 PM |
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It can be slow but more dependable than kazza ect. At least its not completely full of viruses. Took me 7 days to download the 17 episodes of the
prisoner.
Dale
Thanks
Dale
my 14 and11 year old boys 22
and 19 now want to drive but have to be 25 before insurance will allow. Finally on the road
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chalmers888
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| posted on 14/1/06 at 07:19 AM |
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One of the advatages as I see it is that it breaks the file into many small sections.
Once you have downloaded that section it becomes available to others in the swarm.
In effect you can download from people who haven't even got a full copy of the file themselves which means that there's more potential
download points in circulation.
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