How to Use Azureus to download Legal Torrents
I have been asked recently to post some instructions on how to use Bittorrent. Bittorrent is a protocol and you need to have what is called a Bittorrent client. There are many out there but I prefer Azureus. To download Azureus go to http://azureus.sourceforge.net/. Download and install the program like any other program. I also suggest download Peer Guardian, it is a peer to peer firewall. It helps block people from unauthorized access to your pc via Bittorrent protocol. To download Peer Guardian go to http:\\phoenixlabs.org/pg2/ .
Finally the most important step is finding the files you need. I do not condone downloading of copyrighted material. Bittorrent is a very effective tool for downloading Linux distros. However you will find alot of material from your searches. My favorite webite is www.piratebay.org .
Go to the site do a search and download the torrent link to your desktop. If it doesn't open up with azureus automatically, right click the torrent link you downloaded and tell it to open it with azureus. Your done the file should now start downloading. It will give you a status as to the download speed and percentage.
Hope this helps. If you have any questions post it and Ill try to answer the best I can.
posted by kosmo at
9:50 AM
2 Comments:
I'm having problems with download speeds. I keep seeing all this stuff about port forwarding, but it looks really confusing, and I don't want to mess up my router for the other people in my house. Any suggestions?
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Anonymous, at September 27, 2006 at 1:33 PM
There should be a link on azureus that steps you thru how to do that. You may have to change your default port. Some isps have been throtling down the default bittorrent ports. The easiest thing to do, is give your pc a static ip address. Then go into your router, find the section that talks about adding a pc to the dmz.
Add your static ip to that dmz address. This will open that pc directly to the internet. Keep in mind however that you are now connected to the internet directly and the router firewall wont stop anything. Make sure you have a good firewall program intalled -jeremy
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kosmo, at September 28, 2006 at 4:52 PM
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