How to Use Bit Torrent with Utorrent

This article shows how to use the bit torrent client uTorrent to download .torrent files. This is an easy to understand, step by step guide with lots of pictures to make it very easy to understand. This article shows how to download the torrent from a torrent distributing site and use that .torrent file to start downloading your files.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Computer
• Basic Knowledge about computers

1. Get a bit torrent client. The client is the program used to download files using the bit torrent protocol. My personal preference is uTorrent which can be found at www.utorrent.com. When you arrive at the website, it will look something like this (picture below). Click on the download link highlighted in orange.
2. Once you click on this link, the page will look like this...
3. Click on the link that is highlighted, after the uTorrent name, it will say what version it is, I just omitted that part to avoid confusion. If the installer is downloaded to your desktop, go to your desktop and open the installer. It will look like this. Chose which options you want, and click on yes.
4. The program will generally install instantly because it is an extremely small program and thus will use very little memory. The screen upon the first startup will look something like this.
5. So as a default, uTorrent will automatically put the files that you download into the download folder in "My Documents", if you want to change this, you can do so as follows.
6. So you will click on options, then on preferences, as is highlighted on the picture. Then you will get to this screen. At this screen, you will set the destination of the downloaded files to where you want them.
7. Alright, now that the client is set up, you will want to find a site that supplies the bit torrent links. I use btjunkie but there are many others, you can find them using google, but btjunkie is great as is. The homepage looks like this.
8. Once here, simply type in what you are looking for into the search bar. As an example, I searched for We Own the Night. Once the search is complete, you will have a screen like this.
   The highlighted box is what you would click on to get to the download screen, but I will explain what all the different parts of the screen are (the vocab is pretty much universal across sites).
   
   1) Is the file I would download. This is because it comes from a well known dvd ripper (FXG--> axxo is also good but is faked a lot). Also, when downloading a movie in avi format, it should never be much more or less that 700 MB. Just as an aside, to get the movie to play on WMP11, you need Xvid and DivX codecs.
   
   2) Is simply the category that the torrent file falls under.
   
   3) Is the size of the file or package of files that will be downloaded. Average sizes for different file types are as follows...
   
   DvdRip/.avi --> ~700mb
   
   Music Album --> ~60-120mb depending on quality desired.
   
   DVD images or full copies --> ~4450mb
   
   4) This is the amount of people that are either downloading and uploading, or just uploading. When choosing a file to download, generally the one that has the most seeders is the one you will want to chose. Also, the more seeders there are, the faster your download will go.
   
   5) Leechers are the amount of people who are just downloading the file, not uploading.
9. Alright, after you click on the file you chose, you will arrive at a screen like the following. Number 1 is what you will click on to download the torrent file. Number 2 is the comments box. Always try and check what comments people have written to see if the file is in good condition. And if you want to be extra helpful, sign up for an account at btjunkie and add comments of your own to help fellow downloaders. At the bottom of this page, after the comments, there is the list of the files that are contained in the torrent.
10. Number 1 is simply a file that shows the tag of the "dvd ripper". Number 2 is the main file of the torrent, the movie itself (hence the .avi). And number 3 is the subtitle file.
    
    After you download the torrent, you will have 2 options. You can either open up the torrent with uTorrent, or you can download it to your desktop/some folder. If you open it with uTorrent, the file will automatically be put into the torrent client. If you download it to your desktop, you will simply have to drag it into the uTorrent screen.
11. Once you have dragged the torrent file into the screen or opened it up with uTorrent, you will get to the following screen. At this step you are able to select which parts of the torrent file you will actually download. If you simply want the movie file, de-select the other files and click ok
12. Now, number 1 is the amount of the file that has completed downloading. Number 2 is the amount of seeders you have connected to. Number 3 is the current download speed. And finally number 4 is the estimated time to completion of your torrent file. Now you have to realize that your download will not start at blazing fast speeds. It can take minutes before your client connects to enough users to have a fast download.
13. Once your download is complete, it will look similar to this... (Oh and by the way, I didn't actually download this movie, I just coloured in the status bar to illustrate what it would look like --> hence the 23h ETA)
    At this point, your download is complete. This means that your movie is ready to be watched. If you want to seed to other users, simply leave the client open. If you want to delete the torrent file and keep the files you downloaded, right click on the file, go down to Remove And, the click on Delete .torrent.