BitTorrent Tutorial Roundup

Written by Ernesto on December 26, 2006

Here’s a roundup of some of the BitTorrent related tutorials we wrote this year. Twelve tutorials in total, so there will probably be something interesting for everyone.

  • The Basics
  • 1. How to Make a Torrent
    Torrents are great, they are the best way to share large files with your friends, or even with people you don’t know at all. But surprisingly enough, not many people create torrents when they need to share something.

    2. How to find Torrents
    10 Great Torrent Sites + Firefox Search Plugins.

    3. How To Encrypt BitTorrent Traffic
    More and more ISP’s are limiting and throttling BitTorrent traffic on their networks. By throttling BitTorrent traffic the speed of BitTorrent downloads decreases, and high speed downloads are out of the question.

  • Speed Up Your BitTorrent Downloads
  • 4. How to Optimize Your BitTorrent Download Speed
    BitTorrent can be fun, as long as you get decent speeds. Not satisfied with your current speeds? These suggestions might help yo optimize your download pleasure.

    5. How to Speed Up Bitcomet and uTorrent
    90% off all people use the default settings on their client, and that’s a problem.

    6. How to Protect Your Torrent From Failing Trackers
    Nothing is more frustrating than your download getting stuck. The fact that a torrent has stopped downloading can have several reasons.

  • BitTorrent and RSS
  • 7. How to Use RSS & BitTorrent to Download TV shows
    Are you tired of scanning several BitTorrent sites for the latest episodes of your favorite TV show? You should definitely try using RSS feeds then. RSS and BitTorrent are a perfect match.

    8. How to Make a Custom TV Torrent Feed
    How to create a personalized TV torrent feed, and have all your favorite TV torrents in one feed.

    9. How to Use Gmail to Search Torrents
    Gmail is more than a useful email service. In just a few steps you can turn it into your personal torrent search engine. And by using labels and filters you can keep your inbox clean.

  • uTorrent Tips and Tricks
  • 10. How to Run uTorrent on a USB Stick
    A portable version of uTorrent may come in handy when you’re with friends, at school, or at work. It will fit perfectly on every usb-stick, iPod, mobile phone, or any other device that is recognized a “removable disk”.

    11. How to Run uTorrent in Mac OS X
    uTorrent is currently only available for Windows. But that doesn’t going to stop us from running it in OS X.

    12. How to Use Firefox to Remotely Control uTorrent
    The uTorrent WebUI can be used to access uTorrent from an external computer. This Firefox extension will make it even easier.

    Have fun!

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    7 Responses (Add yours or TrackBack)

    1 Dec 27, 2006 at 03:39 by Jasper van Weerd

    Great overview…!

    2 Dec 27, 2006 at 17:03 by Yatti

    Great list.. Good for beginners!

    3 Mar 12, 2007 at 18:32 by Mike

    I am profoundly deaf and i am new to downloading tv programmes. How can i find out and select english(hard of hearing subtitles)?

    4 Jun 24, 2007 at 16:46 by xalgylflql

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