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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-04-07 07:40 pm

[ SECRET POST #2652 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2652 ⌋

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Re: How do you use torrents?

(Anonymous) 2014-04-08 08:16 am (UTC)(link)
imagine you're trying to bake a cake

the torrent file itself (file_name.torrent) is the recipe, and the ingredients are parts of the file donated by other people who have the full file

so someone will give you the eggs, another user will give you flour, another user will give you sugar. they are all giving you the components of one recipe at the same time, making the file download faster since several users are contributing at once.

as your cake is downloading, you are also sharing with people who have even fewer ingredients than you, by providing them eggs, sugar, etc. when your file completes, you will be sharing all of your ingredients with others. the more users providing ingredients, the faster the file downloads.

you will need a torrent program (vuze, utorrent, bittorrent) and a torrent file for whatever you're looking to download (the file that ends in .torrent). when you're finding your torrent, it might list the number of seeds (people who have the full file) and peers (people who are currently downloading), you'll want to find the .torrent file with the most seeds, since that will make things go faster. unfortunately if you're looking for something rare or outdated, you might come upon multiple torrents with 0 seeds, which might leave you out of luck unless someone new comes online.

from there it's just opening the .torrent file in the program and downloading.