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The power of torrents is amazing. It allows for large files to be distributed while sharing the bandwidth cost between many people. While there are plenty of legit ways to use this technology, the most popular use is file-sharing. Following are sites for this.
The One Thing You Need To Know
- www.portforward.com
- In order to get good download speeds, you need to be sure that you are connectable. You do this by forwarding ports in your router. Visit this site to find your router and how to do it.
My Favorite Torrent Client
- Azureus
- You will need a client to download the files. I have found Azureus to be the most powerful and it runs on all operating systems. There are ton of options to change around and tweak.
- Info on setting up clients for downloading
- Setting up Azureus and other clients for downloads.
- Transmission
- Transmission is a quick and easy client for Macs. I use this for quick grabs.
- utorrent
- Becoming very popular on Windows PCs.
Popular Torrent Sites
- ThePirateBay.org
- Alot of torrents and alot of users. This site resides in Europe so they seem to get away with alot more things.
- Mininova.org
- A well known torrent site.
- Demonoid.com
- One of the original torrent sites.
- TorrentSpy.com
- My Personal Favorite. Great speeds and great torrents.
- Listible Popular Torrent Sites
- Take a look at how others rank popular torrent sites.
Torrent Search Sites
- Isohunt.com
- This site usually brings good results and orders them by most active.
- Torrenttyphoon.com
- I don't have much luck on this search site. IT has good results on movies, but I don't grab many movies.
- Torrents.to
- This site will let you search other sites by name. This is good if you have a favorite site, but I like Isohunt because it searches many torrent sites at once.
TV Torrents
- btjunkie.org
- This site seems to have the TV shows within 24 hours of being aired.
- TVTorrents.com
- Great site for all shows. But you have to be quick because shows are not seeded well for long.
- TVtorrent.info
- This is actually a front end to mininova, but it sure makes it easy to find the TV shows.
Sites that require registration
- FileMP3.org
- The music here is good and seeded well. Check often to see when signups are available.
- Mac Torrents
- Another good site for Mac torrents, but it is sometimes hard to follow the announcements. I don't use this one much.
Some sites offer RSS feeds on their torrents.
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