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Originally Posted by claire18  I thought it would of been as easy as that, figured it out had to download something called utorrent. |
Ah, - sorry, I figured you meant just to browse the site so left it for someone who uses it since I don't.
When it comes to downloading 'torrents' (bitsoup.org being a shortened version of bit torrent soup) you don't really need to understand the technology or how it's working, but in basic terms I'll give you a summary so you get it:
You need to use a torrent tracker, this is a site like bitsoup.org that contains torrent files. When you click on one of the torrent files it isn't the actual file that you want to download, it's simply a file that directs to different parts of the file for you to download it (or, rather, to a tracker that contains links to the different parts of files).
Once you have clicked on the link for the file you desire it'll ask to open or save to your computer, to utilise this file though you need a torrent client. This is a program that can interpret and use the torrent file to download the file from all the people all over the world who have it, in little chunks. uTorrent is what I would recommend on a windows machine, but there are other options like azeurus which are also used by plenty of people.
I mentioned the little chunks of data; this is how bit torrent works and is why it's superior to regular peer-2-peer file sharing like Limewire, the old Napster etc, because your torrent client will download the file you want in little portions from different people all over the world speeding up the process and it's a better way to share in my opinion.
Another thing to watch out for is the seeds/peers ratio. Seeds are people who have the whole file and are 'seeding' it to people like yourself, whereas peers are other people who're in the process of downloading, but can share what they have so far with you. If there are more seeds than peers it'll generally be quicker to download whereas less seeds than peers will often be painfully slow.
Any other questions, just ask.
