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Old 05-21-2004, 11:06 AM   #1
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Default What is Torrent?

I was reading about how someone was looking for Chappelle Show clips in the requests section and someone suggested Supernova.org, so I looked too. It's a "Torrent" page...and I was wondering how it works and what is it? When I clicked on TV Shows and Chappelle Show, nothing happened. I assume I'm missing software or something?

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Old 05-21-2004, 11:12 AM   #2
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You have to download a program ex. BitTorrent at http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/download.html...
Then just open the file with a *.torrent extension or click the link one more time, and the download should start
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Old 05-21-2004, 12:13 PM   #3
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So, this is a special downloading program? Do I need a special player to play it, once it's Dloaded?

Thanks for the help.
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Old 05-21-2004, 01:41 PM   #4
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Old 05-21-2004, 04:29 PM   #5
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basically a torrent is a way to download something that sucks balls speed wise most of the time
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Old 05-22-2004, 06:26 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by thamar
torrents mostly suck on adsl, with a cable connection you get rather high speeds, +250k is not an exception here
How do you get such high speeds with torrent... do you have to open some ports

Please could you post a reply so that my torrents go faster than 10kbps
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Old 05-27-2004, 03:50 PM   #7
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This FAQ will provide all the info you need about torrent www.dessent.net/btfaq, as for Bit torrent sites, I have a topic open already opened in the message board, search for it. Love it, can't go wrong with it.
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Old 05-29-2004, 04:41 AM   #8
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this is my concept of torrent....it is basically a peer - to - peer internet downloading.......same like kazaa or any other P2P file sharing programs......it maybe slower than direct download but it worth the wait...
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