What is Torrent? and Why is it preferable?

Four or five years ago when I first subscribed to my broadband DSL Internet connection, I started to look more deep into the P2P “Peer-to-Peer” world, I tried many programs like, Limewire, BearShare, and others, but eventually I’ve used BearShare for most of the time because I’ve found it easy-to-use and does the job.

In such programs, you connect to a wide network of users who are sharing movies, songs, images, e-books, and many other types, you then search for a certain movie or a song, and then a list of results appears and every file appears has a number showing how many users have it, and by this one can conclude which file will be faster, and mostly virus-free.

This was the case until many files became fake, viruses spread, users tend to use fake names for their files just to trick users, so when you download a file, expect it to be a cartoon, it may turn out to be a full p0rno movie!! Yeah, it happened to me once unfortunately, but being a virus, became very common, so I quit this type of P2P clients.

What this form of sharing lake is:

• Real info and description about what you are going to download;
• A way to comment on files shared, being real or fake, virus-free or has Trojans or viruses, the real quality of the file “an example is when the file be a movie”;
• Getting things organized, getting shared files categorized and grouped;

That was some of what Torrents provide.

Torrents are usually "Advantages of Torrents":

• Clean
• Guaranteed
• Downloaded faster
• Better quality
• Virus-free
• Have people discuss it by commenting
• Have a neat Description
• Not just one zipped file, but a folder from which you can download some files, not the whole thing “an example is when you want to download a certain song instead of the whole album”
• A source - I can trust! - of everything.

In the following posts I’ll show you how to download and choose which torrent is most probably the one you are looking for, some Torrent clients, some Torrent websites, and finally how to tweak your BitTorrent client.

Your Questions/Comments are welcomed and helpful, feel free to ask or comment :)

Cheers,
Mahmoud Tantawy