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Please forgive me of my ignorance, but could someone please tell me about torrents. What are they, how to download, and what other helpful information you may have. Thanks in advance!!!:D

You might want to read here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent
:Smilywais:

How do use the torrents with limewire though???

There is no official LW release at the moment including a torrent client. But afaik they are working on it and it shouldn't be for long that a beta might be released.....
:Smilywais:

I've been wondering about the same thing....Can you still use Bitzi with it ??

Could someone please post a sticky on how to use the torrent feature in limewire!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

I think I got it

O.k., there is no proof that I am successful at downloading a torrent yet, because (duh) it is still downloading as I write this. But here is what I did to get where I am now:

1.) I went to http://www.torrentportal.com/

2.) I searched for a file that I wanted to download using the site's searchengine box.

3.) After I found the file I wanted, I clicked on it and I brought to the download page.

4.) I selected to 'download this torrent'; Then the popup box that asks you to run or save came up. I selected to SAVE it to my desktop, where I ran a virus scan on it first.

5.) After the virus scan did not find anything harmful, I dragged and dropped the file in the download section of limewire. Viola', it started downloading.

Now the funny thing to me is I got up to 95 HOST, but only 8kbps of download speed. Sometimes it might shoot up to 20kbps and come back down. Also, is having that many host safe???? Plus I found in the monitor tab, that the file uploads at the same time that it downloads.

I tried this just for the sake of trying something new and gaining the experience from it, but it takes forever to download using this method. If anyone has any tips or tricks to speed this process, please feel me than free to let me know.

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Originally Posted by Only A Hobo

donp1371 you got me interested but I'm a total newbie. This faq is extreemly well written and useful. I'm half way through it now. http://dessent.net/btfaq/ The whole subject is a new one for most of us, but I'm sure some sort of sticky might well appear fairly soon.. :)

I was reading the same link just before I posted my findings. What a cowinkydink!!!!

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Originally Posted by Only A Hobo

:D It seems from my linked faq that port forwarding might be neccessary for higher speeds...but I have downloaded torrents with other clients once or twice and they were never that quick. I had one indicating it would take over a day. Searched for it on Gnutella with Phex and had it 1 1/2 hours later...You seem to have started the sticky yourself :):)

I just tried to find a way, because my curiousity was getting the best of me.:confused: Hey, how is Phex compare to LW??? Can you find files that you can't find on LW or are the dl/ul speeds better than LW?

There isn't much that I can't find with LW, it's just that I hate when a file gives 7,10,25 results, but when you download it it only downloads from 1 or 2 host.

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Originally Posted by Only A Hobo

Thats better ..something I know a little about lol :D Often I can find files with Phex that Limewire will not find. The d\l speeds seem similar, but Phex connects to 30 or so UPs as a leaf .. and most of them are bearshare.... for me at any rate....which seems to explain the better rare file results.

If you are downloading a file as you describe with Limewire, it can help to re search the file and as new sourses are found in the search they often connect. This should in theory happen automatically but often does not...

Thanks for tips, might try Phex later on 2nite or 2morrow, just to give it a looksee. Peace!!!!