In just several short years, the peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing protocol BitTorrent has become one of the most popular methods of file sharing over the internet. With an ever growing amount of legal content available via "Torrents," Downloading BitTorrents has a very bright future.

What makes BitTorrent different than other P2P networks is its extremely efficient distribution method. Unlike other file sharing networks where downloads slow as more and more users download the files, downloads could possibly get faster the greater users that are online, downloading and sharing the files. The BitTorrent protocol is currently the among the fastest at moving very large files through the Internet.

As a way to begin, the first thing you may need to track down is a piece of software to behave as the BitTorrent Client. Some users recommend uTorrent because of its small size and limited system resource usage. Others prefer the torrent clients, Azureus and BitComet. I recommend you download a few of different clients and use the one you feel most confident with. These clients are easy to install as every other software and very small. Once installed you are just about ready to begin downloading. To discover files to download, goto any search engine and look for "Torrent Tracker" or "BitTorrent Tracker."

So that you can download a file using BitTorrent, another user must be uploading (otherwise known as "seeding" the file with their very own torrent client. Choose the file to download, click through the up coming internet page the link to the .torrent file on the tracker page. This may trigger your installed client to open begin downloading to your computer. The more seeders the file has the faster the download will go. There is a very good chance that others downloading the torrent will be able to see your ip address so be sure to only use BitTorrent for its intended legal purpose.

Another unique aspect will be the possibly for the seeder to force others to seed and share. As a way to keep them working properly everybody must share something. The protocol is dependent upon it. If you share with other users while downloading, your download speeds shall increase when you are helping the other users to download.