Downloading

[SIXFOOTSTEVE]

Well lads which site or agent do you use to download , I've used Bit Torrent for ages now and it seems lately it's not what it used to be ,I take it there's something new out there ,any new ideas will be gratefully recieved .

[5150]

azureus as the client and torrentspy.com to hunt out the torrents, lot of adult ad's on there though so best not look while the kids are around.

[KeithB]

I'm assuming we are talking un-copyrighted material here!

[5150]

Yarr!

Would never condone downloading copyrighted stuff, that's naughty...

[fishfinder]

Pmsl @ keith

[SIXFOOTSTEVE]

HAR HAR KEITH LAD ........... of course not ,just back up copies of course.

[The Great Wallsendo]

I use Limewire Steve...it's OK, but you can get a load of Porn (is that a bad thing I hear you all ask? ) I tried downloading a movie once and got the full Paris Hilton video.....which is cr*p LOL

[Jaguar]

i use uTorrent 1.6.1 (there is a newer version but alot of torrent sites wont use it) but with this i use torrent havester to find what i need. works for me

[Vamp]

I use Limewire

Wouldnt touch it more virus's than enough on limewire,ok if its just a odd song you want as soon as you download a exe file {BOOOOOOM} Virus and yah comp might as well get formatted,
i use u torrent had no bother with it at all,and just scout the net for a deacent torrent site

[red rock]

newsgroups are the game now if you can understand them the torrent sites are still okay and i have no problem getting what i want,as for clients they are all the same u torrent, bit torrent,bit tornado etc i have used them all in the past. limewire etc are okay if you want single tracks etc but can also have viruses hidden in the files.

[KeithB]

Good tutorial here:

http://www.slyck.com/ng.php

.......apparently

[davem2005]

Steve,
Download utorrent...as your download programme. Then what you use to actually find a specific torrent is up to you. Make sure your router ports are open using the speed checker. DO NOT use ports under 1600 as they are capped by many ISP's for downloading.

Utorrent has a search box linking to various torrent sites but you will find that its far easier to just use a google search along the lines of

"what u want" & the word torrent.

Anyone using liewire wants their head examining and there pc checked for viruses.

The site I use has just re opened membership so check your pm's...may take a day or so to get you an invite.

Cheers
Dave

ps...Always be safe and download a backup copy

[Nelson]

To be honest mate the actual client doesnt matter (e,g azureus) when using torents...its the site that you get the torrent from...your best bet is to search for the torrent on a search engine such as google and just type in the name of the content you want to download (followed by the word torrent') then it will give you all the sites that you can get the torrent from.

But if you only want to download single items such as a song use limewire...a good tip is to download limewire pro from the basic limewire...this gives you the pro version for free.

Hope this is useful

Nelson

[Nelson]

LOL only if i had read the post by davem i would have saved me some time...we both said the same thing.

[mark]

get a news reader and get into usenet - over 30 years old now and still rocking! depending on who your isp is an what their newserver is like there's anything up 260,000 groups aound. I probably spend more time in usenet than the internet. It doesn't port the same was the internet does as its a completely seperate and self contained environment, so is hardly ever throttled back by isp routing, the stuff you download is coming straight from the back bone of the network, not peer to peer, so it'll go as fast as you're bandwidth can handle.

googling for torrents can be hitty missy as google takes longer to refresh and re-index the torrent sites than torrent trackers do

http://isohunt.com is one of the best trackers out there at the mo IMHO, and tracks most of the bigger torrent sites on an hourly basis

as an alternative to both usenet and bt try hotline, also been around for donkeys years just quietly getting on with it, more for downloading apps/software than music/movies though