What do I do?

[Seve]

Hi, Does anyone know how to download the file sharing site "Bittorrent"? all I can get is the home page nd then they ask me to ring a number which doesn't even let me download the site!

Any ideas please?

Seve

[NHH]

Hello again Seve.

BitTorrent is'nt your usual Peer-2-Peer client where you do all you searching & downloading in one program.
BitTorrent is a transfer protocol. To access shared files via BitTorrnet there are a lot of different client programs that you can choose from, popular ones being Azureus and BitTorrent++, these programs are just for downloading whatever files you're after.

To find the downloads there are tons of websites and forums where you can search for the shared files.
Once you've found a file that you want to download, you first download the supplied '.torrent file' from the site. Then you run the .torrent file and your BitTorrent client will start downloading the file you want.

Here's a good site where you can download a BitTorrent client ---> click here
Here's a clunky but pretty good list of torrent sites ---> click here

[Seve]

Hi Vin,

Thanks for the reply on Bittorrent but that is to confusing for me to get my head around.
I've tried Kazaa & Kazaa Lite but I find that when you down load a file its not the file you downloaded or that if you download a movie its only half of it.

Can you recommend any better file sharing sites that are easier to download than Bittorrent?

Many thanks

Seve

[Seve]

Hi Vin,

Forgot my password and am not on the same e-mail address that I registered with this site any more. What shall I do Re-reg with my new mail address?

Cheers

Seve
;D

[NHH]

I know what you mean... I too prefer the straight forward approach and not trawling websites for posted files, although IRC can be similarly compicated but rewarding.

If you've installed Kazza on you PC (not Kazza Lite) then I suggest you give your PC a good clean out with Ad-Aware or Spybot & CCleaner...... nasty horrible program, hence not on my downloads page.

My favorite has always been WinMX.... superb. Just be prepared to never switch off your PC as you'll be too concerned about missing your place in the queues.
It's pretty easy to use but also can be advanced as you like if you start getting into trawling the OpenNAP servers for those hard to get files or setting up 'anti-leeching' on the useful NapMX addon program.
It also has an IRC based chatroom browser where you can browse or create your own chatroom, browse peoples personal collections and beg them for that thing you've been after for ages...
As for not knowing what you're downloading, WinMX saves the files prograssively (i.e. not in indeciferable chunks) so you can play MP3's or Video files as they're downloading... To play partial AVI videos you'll need a player that will do that as most won't, Crystal Player on the downloads page does this no problem.

As you may be guessing.. I think WinMX is pretty OK ;D

Regarding your login just register again, I haven't put any restrictions or activation procedures on logins so do as you like..


Vin

[Seve]

Cheers once again Vin, sticking with Kazaa Lite at the mo, seems to be doing the job for me.

Do you know of any sites that you can download folms that are only out in america?

Cheers

Seve

[NHH]

Not too sure what you mean by 'sites'.
There's no real websites which will let download movies from them.
If you're after the latest US albums/movies etc. that are only currently available in America.
Visit some American music/movie/entertainment websites to find stuff. Then try to find them on WinMX / Kazaa Lite...
A few goodies are;
www.blockbusters.com for US DVD releases
www.movies.com, www.hollywood.com & www.imdb.com for (yes, you guessed it..) US movies

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