How to Bit Torrent Guide

Due to some emails i’ve had about Bit Torrent and how to use it, I’ve decided to put this guide together quickly. I’m going to create a seperate guide on burning Xbox games to DVD-R/DVD+R from either an ISO or from just the game files.

1 - Install a Bit Torrent Client

Before you start downloading games, movies etc, you’ll need to install a Bit torrent client. There a numerous clients available all with different features and options. Some people claim certain torrent clients provide faster download speeds, personally i’ve not noticed this between clients.

I would recommend using BitComet as it’s simple to use, looks nice and works well.

Other Bit Torrent clients you might want to try are:

* The Original Bit Torrent Client
* ABC
* Bit tornado

2 - Download a Torrent

Ok so now you’ve got your torrent client installed, go to your favourite torrent site (e.g. torrent spy). And click on the link to download the Torrent file.

Once you’ve clicked the link your browser will ask you whether you’d like to open the torrent or save it, If your using BitComet I’d suggest choosing “open” and then choosing BitComet as the application to open the torrent with.

Once you click ok BitComet will open up and the following dialog box will appear. You can see all the files in the torrent and also the location where these files will be saved to. The default location should be fine unless you want to save the files to a different drive, this folder can be change by clicking “browse”.

BitComet should now connect to the tracker and start downloading the files.

3 - Open Your Files

Ok once the torrent is fully downloaded you may/should seed the torrent so others can download it. BitComet will automatically seed a torrent once it’s finished downloading. If you browse to the folder where you chose to save the files you can then use them.