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!!!

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

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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.....

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

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

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.

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

I just tried to find a way, because my curiousity was getting the best of me. 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.

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