Downloading torrents

Pt. 3 of 5 | 2:18 |

An introduction to torrents

Wednesday June 30, 2010

Now that you have your

torrent client application

installed, you're probably eager to try it out. If you've been following along, you should be pretty well ready to go. In this episode, we'll show you

how to download torrents

using Ubuntu as an example. Follow along and you'll be comfortable with the interface in no time.

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Show Notes

- Once you have your torrent client set up, you're ready to download.

- On a site that has torrent files, click Download Torrent by the file you want to download.

- You get a dialog where you can change the download location and other settings.

- For the average user, you can leave the settings as they are.

- Your torrent will appear in your torrent client, in this case uTorrent.

- It will show the file size, the name and various other details of the download progress.

- You can pause a torrent transfer.

- You can also make one torrent transfer have priority over others.

- Remember, a torrent is a peer-to-peer process so download speed will depend on the number of participants or peers.

- Your torrent will start to download faster as more users contribute to your download.

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