How do you use utorrent?

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Im new to using any thing like this so could someone help me please.

How do you use utorrent? How do you find the torrents for them? Do you have to go search them on google or do u just have to type it in somewhere and it will bring a whole heap up that you can choose form?
 
There is a search bar in the top right of the uTorrent window. You can use that to search one of the torrent sites or you can go to a torrent site and search manually. Whichever way you choose, you then get a torrent link which you click on as if to download a file. uTorrent should see the torrent and bring up a window about the torrent. Click OK and it should start.

If uTorrent doesn't pick up the torrent, FF or IE or whatever might need to be told what program to open the torrent file with.

Have a look here for more info on using uTorrent.
 
Because i have Opera all the torrents get done in there :confused:

If you have opera dont you need utorrent? :confused:



Edit: Ive canseled it in opera and ive put it in utorrent but my god its going slow :(

Please dont tell me that this is what a torrent does and they are slow like this? It says ive got 10 seeds with a 57 in brakets next to it 44 peers with 323 in brackets next to it. but its only downloading at speeds between .5kb/s and 7kb/s

Why is it doing this? :(
 
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If you select tools>speed test you can run a quick test to see if you've got the right ports open, it should be a lightening fast download if you've got it set up correctly.

The only advice i would give is to change the default port that it uses. I didn't and caught some nasty trojans that find PC's with open ports, they look for specific ones that are default in P2P programs because most people don't change it.
 
chimaera said:
If you select tools>speed test you can run a quick test to see if you've got the right ports open, it should be a lightening fast download if you've got it set up correctly.

The only advice i would give is to change the default port that it uses. I didn't and caught some nasty trojans that find PC's with open ports, they look for specific ones that are default in P2P programs because most people don't change it.
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Ok ive done that and it says the port is ok, It started to speed up about 20 mins ago and its at 30kb/s. Which is better but i want my full potential :p


How do you know what port to change to so you can avoid trojans and things and how do you do it? :confused:
 
Zip said:
Ok ive done that and it says the port is ok, It started to speed up about 20 mins ago and its at 30kb/s. Which is better but i want my full potential :p


How do you know what port to change to so you can avoid trojans and things and how do you do it? :confused:
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I think you can use any port you like. Scroll down here until you get to the 'Manually forwarding a port' section.;)
 
MarcLister said:
I think you can use any port you like. Scroll down here until you get to the 'Manually forwarding a port' section.;)
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I dont know anything about ports and port numbers :(
How do i know what number is an actual port? How do i set it up? :confused:

From your link
Manually forwarding a port

If UPnP is not available or does not work, it will be necessary to forward the port manually. Since we want to forward a single port, we need to set the listen port for µTorrent:
To set a single port, navigate to Options > Preferences > Connections
Click "random port" once, and note the port number provided. This will be the port number you will be forwarding in your router. (You may also assign a port number of your choice)
Uncheck "Randomize port each time µTorrent starts." The port number will no longer change each time µTorrent is started.
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So confused :(
 
Zip said:
I dont know anything about ports and port numbers :(
How do i know what number is an actual port? How do i set it up? :confused:
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There is a fair few of 'em. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_TCP_and_UDP_port_numbers

Up to 65535 of them if you really wanted. Try uTorrent with the random port feature ON and see how that works. If that doesn't work just choose any number between 1 and 1024. There is an option in uTorrent I think to test a port instantly. So you can select a port number then test it to see if uTorrent can use that port or not.
 
MarcLister said:
There is a fair few of 'em. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_TCP_and_UDP_port_numbers

Up to 65535 of them if you really wanted. Try uTorrent with the random port feature ON and see how that works. If that doesn't work just choose any number between 1 and 1024. There is an option in uTorrent I think to test a port instantly. So you can select a port number then test it to see if uTorrent can use that port or not.
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Thanks :)
 
30kb/s isn't really that bad, it all depends on how many people you're connecting to and if they are limiting their upload rate. Also whilst there may be a lot of peers, they are generally people who only have a portion of the file like yourself.

Seeders are where you get the fast rates, 10 is ok but again it all depends on how many people are uploading off them, if its a popular file there will be more seeders but also more uploaders, therefore limiting the speed.

I've got a 2MB ADSL line which usually max's at 1.8MB download, on a good day with uTorrent a file will hit 150kb/s, but thats rarely a consistent rate, personally anything between 50-100kb/s is a good rate, you'll never get your theoretical maximum.
 
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