Torrents are great for downloading and sharing files. Unfortunately they get a bad name because they’re usually used for downloading copyright movies, TV shows and other copyright files. It is not illegal to download and use torrents, however when used to download copyrighted material it is.

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Understanding Torrents

First a little explanation on what a torrent is and how it works. A torrent is a small file with the file extension .torrent. This file contains a list of files that are to be downloaded and other information that your torrent client will use. The torrent client will take this information and find other people download and uploading the same torrent. Once the torrent client finds some people it will start downloading pieces of the file from them and then put all the pieces of the file together once it’s done downloading. When you have some pieces of the file downloaded, your torrent client may start to upload pieces to other people. That’s pretty much how it works, a bunch of people sharing files to and from each other. Once you’re done downloading, you will become a seed and people will start downloading from you. You can stop the transfer anytime you like, it is however considered courtesy to seed back what you downloaded, at least to a certain extent.

Using a Torrent Client

Now that torrents have been somewhat explained, lets talk about the torrent client. Two clients that work great are Transmission (Mac) and µTorrent (Mac & PC). In this article I’m going to talk about Transmission as it is my favourite and in my opinion, the best for Mac.

Transmission Options

Transmission is a free, lightweight application with some pretty powerful features. If you’re new to torrents you can rejoice because it is very easy to use. When you initially get Transmission installed there are some settings you probably want to set up.

So firstly we should tell Transmission where to download the files. Open Transmission go to the menu bar, click Transmission -> Preferences. In the preferences window go to the Transfers tab and select where you’d like all your torrents to download. I suggest somewhere you’ll be able to find it easily… maybe the Downloads folder. I also have it set to delete the small .torrent file once the download is complete. Another setting you might like to check is to have Transmission check your Downloads folder for new torrent files and automatically start downloading when it finds them.

Now that Transmission is set up the way you want, we need a torrent file. There are tons of torrent sites out there. To find one simply google “torrent sites“. There are also a lot of different torrents out there. Lets say I wanted to download a torrent containing Ubuntu, but when I searched for it I was presented with 40 different files. Which one do I choose? I want to download the right one on my first try. If there were any comments about the torrent I’d read them to make sure it was what I was actually looking for, as well as if it was good quality. Then I’d check the ones with the most seeds, as more seeds usually mean faster download speed. I’d also check the peers to make sure that the peer to seed ratio is not to high as the more people trying to download (peers) the file the longer it’ll take for me to get my file. As you can see from the picture below, the first torrent had 3006 seeds and 59 peers (leeches), while the second had 0 seeds and 8 peers (leeches). The first one is downloading fast and the second one hasn’t even started yet.

Seeds are people who have completely downloaded the file and are now uploading it to anyone who wants it. Peers are people who are currently downloading and uploading, but aren’t at 100% yet. So lets say one torrent has 50 seeds and 3 peers, and the other had 3 seeds and 50 peers. The one with 50 seeds is going to download a lot faster. Usually the best quality torrent is the one with the most seeds.

Once you’ve downloaded your .torrent file, open it with Transmission. Your files will start downloading. When it first starts it will most likely start off very slow, this is because your client is looking for more people to download from. The more people connected and uploading to you, the faster the download will go.

If you have more than one torrent running at a time you can also set different priorities for each one. Another great feature is the speed limit mode, which you basically enable to stop your torrent from taking up all the bandwidth. I use this when I’m watching Netflix so that my movie isn’t constantly buffering.

Want to learn a whole bunch more about how torrents work? Here are some resources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrent_file

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Using torrents, you can quickly download movies, films and other files to your Mac. A torrent is a file with the file extension .torrent. This article will explain how to download torrents on a Mac.

Are torrent files legal?

Torrent files are not illegal, but downloading copyrighted material is. However, there are many torrent files out there containing non-copyrighted material which is why we choose to publish this article.

How torrent downloads work on the Mac

Without going all geeky, we’ll now try to explain how torrents work.

Someone downloads a .torrent file

The first thing that happens is that a user downloads a .torrent file. This file is very small and contains only a list of the files that are to be downloaded and some other stuff used by the user’s torrent application.

Opening the torrent

The next thing that happens is that the person that downloaded the file opens it with an application designed to handle this kind of file (more about these applications later). This application will try to find other people trying to download the same file. The torrent application will now grab pieces of the file from the other computers and put them together into one file. The user’s torrent application will in its turn start to share pieces that you have downloaded with other users. You get some and you give some.

Torrent applications for the Mac

There are various torrent applications available for Mac users. In this article, we’ll tell you about our favorite application, Transmission. It’s simple to use and free (we’re not paid to say this).

How To Download Torrents On A Macbook Pro

Transmission

How To Download Torrents On A Mac Desktop

Transmission is a great torrent application for Mac. It’s easy to understand, it works pretty flawlessly and it has most of the features that one wants. To download Transmission, click here (download will begin immediately).

Adding torrent files to Transmission

How To Download Torrents On A Mac

Create a new downloads folder

Okay, let’s assume that you have downloaded Transmission and want to start downloading files. The first thing you should do is create a folder where your downloads will be put. For instance, name it “Downloads” and place it on your desktop.

Tell Transmission that you want your downloads to be out into that folder

Now, open Transmission and go to the top menu. Click Transmission > Preferences. In the preferences window, click the second tab labeled “Transfers”. A drop-down menu is now available and from that menu, choose the folder where you want your downloads to be put (the folder you just created).

Get a torrent file

The next thing you do is download a .torrent file. You do this from your web browser. Find a web site that offers torrents and find a download button. When you click it, a .torrent file will be downloaded to your computer.

Open the .torrent file with Transmission

Now drag the torrent file into Transmission and it will be visible in the list. All the files that you want to download will now be created in the Downloads folder. These files are useless and broken until Transmission says that the files are 100% downloaded. You can throw the .torrent file away after adding it to Transmission.

Download problems that may occur

The torrent download won’t start

The problem with torrents is that they depend on someone seeding the file from his or her computer. Seeding means that you allow other users to download parts of the file from your computer. Sometimes no users are downloading or seeding the file and therefore it can’t be downloaded.

Try to find another file. Finding good torrents might be tricky, but have patience.