Torrent clients

Pt. 2 of 5 | 2:42 |

An introduction to torrents

Tuesday June 29, 2010

Before you can actually

download files using torrents

, you'll need a

torrent client application

. This allows you to connect with other users (peers) and download files from them. In this episode, we'll show you how to

download and install uTorrent

so that you can begin downloading torrents.

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Show Notes

- In order to download torrents, you must use a torrent client.

- In this tutorial series, we'll be using uTorrent.

- BitTorrent is the original torrent application.

- Because torrents are peer-to-peer, which means person-to-person, the client coordinates the transfers.

- Most Web browsers can't handle torrents by themselves.

- Torrent clients on the other hand are designed to download torrent files, which all have the file extension of .torrent

- Torrent clients, like BitTorrent and uTorrent, require very little in the way of setup.

- During setup, run the speed tests.

- You may also want to change where the torrent client will save your downloaded torrents.

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By tylerb about six months ago
(2012-11-20 08:12:58)

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I think that you should definitely try torchbrowser. I also used uTorrent in the past but after finding out about torch, I think there's no discussion about which is the best client.