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6 Tips to Optimize Torrent Downloads

Posted on 19. Aug, 2009 by UzEE.

If you are like the most of us, you rely on torrents to supply you with the latest and greatest stuff out there (legal, of course…). Unfortunately, downloading from the BitTorrent network can be extremely slow if you don’t know how it works.

Here is a list of 6 ways to optimize your torrent downloads.

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How to Make a Torrent File

Posted on 08. Sep, 2008 by Kyle Judkins.

These days torrent files are getting more and more prevalent, because they provide a great benefit for the person distributing the file.  Torrent files allow whoever is uploading the ability to not shoulder the entire bandwidth strain that comes along with a massively downloaded file.

There are other reasons to use torrents, but that’s another discussion.  Let’s get to the how-to of making a torrent file.

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Guide to Opening Ports for uTorrent and Azureus

Posted on 24. Oct, 2007 by Kyle Judkins.

This guide will help you turn this pesky yellow triangle into a nice green circle in uTorrent through port forwarding. Making that icon green will get you better download speeds, and thus, more happiness.

You may have noticed that I haven’t mentioned Azureus. Well, I just put that in the title, because I promised a friend (C-man) I would tell him how to do this for Azureus. You will see in this guide that explaining how to do this for uTorrent basically explains how to do it for any bittorrent client. On to the tutorial…

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