How to create 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. I have “a lot of” friends who know how to download torrents, but when they need to send me their latest 200MB vacation picture collection, they ask me to “get on msn”.
It’s not that I have anything against msn (allthough the file transfer sucks), but why don’t just use BitTorrent? Especially if you want to send something to more than one person, or if you want to share high quality HDTV files, because then you can share the bandwidth.
So how do you do this? Well it’s very simple. Open your favorite BitTorrent client and do the magic trick:
file > create torrent
That’s all? Well almost. All you need to do now is put in the tracker info nad tick some boxes. This can differ somewhat from client to client but it all comes down to the same thing.
uTorrent
1. File > Create new Torrent (or CTRL + N)
2. Select the files and or directories
3. Trackers: This is probably the hard part for most people. But it’s pretty easy, just put in one of the popular public trackers. You can use one or more trackers, but in general one is enough.
Here are some good trackers you can use:
http://open.tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce
http://www.torrent-downloads.to:2710/announce
http://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce
udp://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce
http://www.sumotracker.com/announce
Put one of these in the tracker box
4. Do NOT tick the private torrent box (unless you’re using a private tracker)
5. Save the torrent and send it to your friends
1. File > Create Torrent (or CTRL + M)
2. Select the files and or directories
3. Select “enable public DHT network” from the dropdown box
This way you can be your own tracker if the public tracker goes down.
4. Tracker server and DHT node list
Again, This is probably the hard part for most people. But it’s pretty easy, just put in one of the popular public trackers. You can use one or more trackers, but in general one is enough.
Here are some of the most popular trackers at the moment:
http://open.tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce
http://www.torrent-downloads.to:2710/announce
http://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce
udp://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce
http://www.sumotracker.com/announce
Put one of these in the tracker box
5. Save the torrent and send it to your friends
1. File > New Torrent (or CTRL + N)
2. Tick “use an external tracker”.
And again, This is probably the hard part for most people. But it’s pretty easy, just put in one of the popular public trackers.
Here are some of the most popular trackers at the moment:
http://tracker.prq.to/announce
http://inferno.demonoid.com:3389/announce
http://tracker.bt-chat.com/announce
http://tracker.zerotracker.com:2710/announce
Put one of these in the tracker box
3. Select single file or dicectory, click NEXT and point to the file or directory you want to share, and click NEXT
4. Do NOT tick “private torrent”
5. Do tick “allow decentralized tracking”
6. Save the torrent and send it to your friends
Happy sharing. Note that you don’t need to upload the torrent to a website or a tracker. This means you control who gets the file and who doesn’t, and it won’t be visible to others!.
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Just to make sure I understand this; I’ve created 100’s of torrents via utorrent. I then go to my favorite tracker and “upload” the torrent. Now all I have to do is wait for ppl to search a tracker find my particular torrent and then they “download” the torrent in to their client (utorrent, azeurus, etc…) and then it starts the transfer correct?
I don’t need to do anything else right?
[quote comment="32795"]
I don’t need to do anything else right?[/quote]
Correct!
hello, I’ve been using BitComet at home & office and both are working fine for download & upload. I now want to utilize torrent to copy files from my office to home. So I followed your instructions (at the top of this page) but it seems to be at ‘connecting’ the whole time. How long do I have to wait for it to start downloading?
Ok i am a bit of a nooby i wont lie
i am using utorrent followed the steps but a few problems
1. i dont no if ma tracker is working (to tell you the truth i dont no what a tracker is)i used the tracker in the steps above http://tracker.prq.to/announce
AND SORRY TO POST AGAIN BUT IT SAYS I GOT 3(4) PEERS GOOD OR BAD ?
SB, bittorrent wasn’t made to do that and won’t do it efficiently at all. You’re better off using almost any other way to copy files one-on-one. Bittorrent was created for many-to-many copying: the world did not need another way to do one-to-one. Use ftp, or even email, it will be far, far faster.
Bittorrent as a seeder does not like (read:violently resists) giving sequential pieces to a single leecher. It will give you one small piece, then wait, look around for anyone else to give a piece to, wait, look some more, wait, then reluctantly, eventually, give you a second small piece. Rinse, repeat. It will take a month to transfer a single small file this way. And no, you can’t change that. This is absolutely the wrong tool for the job.
Thanx kluelos for explaining. I wish I could setup http/ftp server on my office computer, but it’s behind the office router, which I have no access to. I used to use Grouper, but it’s now unavailable. So I’m trying this torrent method. Surprisingly, it’s actually going ok (I think).
For 3 folders at work (2gig, 2gig & 6gig), I created 3 torrents and ran them on my home computer. They didn’t start download right away, but eventually they did. Each are going at around 20-25kB/s. Along with other small downloads, it’s 70+kB/s on my home computer, which is not bad for my slow DSL… :)
Hello,
I use Azureus to create my torrents and upload them onto Demonoid.
How do I post a link to my torrents on other sites.
I cannot seem to find an exact address for my torrent it just says http://inferno.demonoid.com:3394/announce but does not actually link to my torrent it just goes to their torrent list.
If I don’t make much sense it is because I don’t know what I am doing.
I would like more people to have access to my uploads.
Any help would be useful
Cheers
lol join the club m8!
Havin the same prob here dont understand it at all!
The URL you are looking for is the entry on demonoid that displays some basic statistics about your torrent. Search for it by name and link to the page the comes up in the search results (NOT the search results themself).
I created the .torrent file via Utorrent (sorry to be repitive) - then loaded the .torrent file into my client.
It says downloading with no sseds and 1 leech (me?)
Does the .torrent file have to be in the folder with the actual data? Do i have to have the finished data in my completed or incoming folder?
Thanks in advance,
Chris
hiya i’ve created a torrent but when i try and upload it onto mininova it says the file is too big
Is there a way to change it or am i doin this wrong?
Sorry i new to this
Mimi
=DEMONOID TRACKER UPDATE=
http://inferno.demonoid.com:3396/announce
udp://inferno.demonoid.com:3396/announce
* You can also upload torrents tracked by other public trackers
Address changed on Dec 23 please make sure you are using the new address (port 3396)
You are giving them the tracker address….
What you really need to do is to give them the link address of the website directly.
and because it is hosted by demonoid, you need to get them to register on demonoid since it is “registered members only” download.
[quote comment="36539"]Hello,
I use Azureus to create my torrents and upload them onto Demonoid.
How do I post a link to my torrents on other sites.
I cannot seem to find an exact address for my torrent it just says http://inferno.demonoid.com:3394/announce but does not actually link to my torrent it just goes to their torrent list.
If I don’t make much sense it is because I don’t know what I am doing.
I would like more people to have access to my uploads.
Any help would be useful
Cheers[/quote]
I made a torrent with uTorrent, shows Seeding …, %100, … the file icon is red. Doesn’t seem to be public. I looked for it but can’t find it. Running out of ideas.
Thanks.
I really, really don’t what I’m doing with these Torrent things. I’ve been reading so many explanations and articles and whatever but I’m still lost. I’ve downloaded a Torrent client (I think that’s what they’re called) and now I’m trying to download something.
So I pressed the ‘Download Torrent’ and it showed up on the screen of the Torrent client, saying it was downloading, only it wasn;t actually. It just won;t do anything, The little symbol next to the names of the thing I’m downloading has turned brown and it says that nothing has been been downloaded.
Help!
I’m trying to SEED a torrent using MakeTorrent 2.1 and the tracker from PirateBay.,
But The thing keeps picking up people, sending them just a little bit of the file and then droping their IP. Am I doing something wrong?
[quote comment="1691"]Thanks Daimon, The same can be done with azureus. Enable the built in tracker in the options panel and choose “built in” tracker if you create the torrent.
But still, I would recommend to use an external tracker if you want the torrent to “stay alive”.[/quote]
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Hi
Thanks a lot for the tutorial, it was very helpful.
However I seem to be having a small problem.
I can create the torrent no probs, but when I have uploaded it to a site and have my torrent client up and running (with the torrent set to Initial-Seeding) the site says there are no seeds for the file.
Any ideas what might be causing this?
Thanks in advance.
[quote comment="55267"]I’m trying to SEED a torrent using MakeTorrent 2.1 and the tracker from PirateBay.,
But The thing keeps picking up people, sending them just a little bit of the file and then droping their IP. Am I doing something wrong?[/quote]
ya…. I created a torrent……and went through all the steps…….. but anybody who downloads it….. it doen’t download kbs for any of them
anyone can plz tell me how to upload a movie ? thanxx
howdy, i see lots of torrents on IsoHunt and btjunkie w/ tracker http://tracker.prq.to/announce but often can’t find that torrent on a specific website (to read the uploader’s comments or description) …. when you create/open a torrent using this tracker, but don’t upload the torrent to any website, does it appear on IsoHunt and btjunkie? if so, then it can “stay alive” without upping to a website. that also destroys the privateness (lol is that a word?) of your torrent if you wish to share it privately. am i wrong here? peace
here after you upload a torrent it always has zero seeds, how do you make seeds for your torrent
on azureus i made my torrent all went well but then i cant find my torrent… :[
I have translated lots of books and manuals; have created and changed some sources applications (GNU). To share I will have to create a torrent one by one or there is a way to automate the process. Like telling some program the directories with files and say how many torrents to create and what file/dir goes into each one?
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