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Originally Posted by AwwSugar
And you'd prefer it over BitTorrent?
What's the different between the two?
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(If I'm insulting your intelligence here, I'm sorry.)
What you need to understand is the fact that downloading torrents involves two things:
1. A program that acts as a client to download the file
2. The file itself, supported by a good number of seeds/peers, which is usually found on popular websites in which the file has been downloaded a lot and seeded a lot.
uTorrent is a client program that allows you to download the files.
There are other client programs that do the same thing, but uTorrent is a good one.
Once you've got a client program, you can just go on google and search for what you want, while adding the term "torrent" in the search. All the results you get will be results that are hosted by torrent sites.
This is the point where you'll need to wisely choose which torrent site to download the source file from. The source file is simply a small file that links your download through your client program.
What you should be looking for in a particular download is a high number of seeds and a decent number of peers.
The way torrents work is that you download pieces of the file from many different sources. These sources are generally people who've downloaded the same file. You're downloading pieces of the file from a lot of people who are "seeding" that file, aka, uploading portions of the file.
All together, you get high speeds if there are a lot of sources.
Your client program, aka uTorrent, is simply the program that assimilates all this into a workable solution. You should pay more attention to the torrent site and whether the file you wish to download is being supported with people who are seeding the file and are available to do so.
These parameters are: Seeds, and Peers.
Regardless of your client program, those are the two items you need to look at. The higher, the better.