Bit Torrent Tutorials

The first things you need to know about using Bit Torrent:
-- Bit Torrent is aimed at broadband users (or any connection better than dialup).
-- Sharing is highly appreciated, and sharing is what keeps bit torrent alive.
-- A bit torrent file (*.torrent) contains information about the piece structure of the download (more on this later)
-- The method of downloading is not your conventional type of download. Since downloads do not come in as one

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Optimize your bit torrent speed

1. Cap your upload (most important)
Limit your upload speed to approximately 80 percent of your maximum upload rate. Once you know your maximum upload speed, change the max upload (to 80%) speed in your torrent client’s preferences.
Don’t get me wrong, everyone should share as much as possible, but if your upload rate reached it’s max, your download rate suffers significantly.

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Speed up your torrents

In order to apply these tips you need to know your maximum up- and download speed. . Also make sure that you applied the tips provided in our previous posts.

Note that there’s a difference between kb/s (kilobits/second) and kB/s (kilobytes/second). To be precise, kb/s = kB/s divided by 8. In this tutorial we use kB/s (like most torrent clients do). This means that you might need to calculate your max speed in kB/s yourself if the speedtest only gives you the results in kb\s (so divide by 8 then).

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Torrents

V0rtex and TorrentTab are two sites using Google’s resources to search for torrents.They both are build using the Google app engine.With App engine you can create an account and publish an application right away at no charge.An free account can use up to 500MB of storage and up to 5 million page views a month.
V0rtex currently searches 12 BitTorrent sites, including established sites such as Mininova, The Pirate Bay and isoHunt. The site itself has a clean look and feel, and the search results are sortable by date, peers, seeds and more.
TorrentTab, also uses Google’s resources to search for torrents. The site currently searches 10 sites, and presents the search results in tabs using Google Ajax Feed API.

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