Creating and Sharing files with Torrents
Why rely on 3rd-party File Sharing sites when you can create yourself a torrent and share it in real-time? Torrents are the easy and the best way to share your files. All you need to have is a Tracker!
Few Torrent Terms
Tracker : A Torrent Tracker is a server that helps in the communication between the peers of the torrent.
Peer : Downloader. The one who downloads the package (files in the torrent). Once the package is fully downloader, he/she turns in to a seeder (uploader).
Seed : A user who has the fully downloaded package (files in the torrent) and shares it with fellow peers.
Create a Torrent
1. Open your Torrent Client – uTorrent, BitComet, Azureus (uTorrent is used here)
2. From the File menu, click Create New Torrent (or) click the Magic Wand icon (or CTRL+N)
3. In the Select Source combo box, choose the file/directory.
4. Torrent Tracker is an important field and many find it hard. You’ll just have to use any/all of the following popular public trackers. A single tracker would do, but you can add more and its up to you.
http://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce
http://open.tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce
http://www.sumotracker.com/announce
3. Key in your comments. This is optional.
4. Finally, click Create and save as.
You can now save your torrent in its *.torrent format. Once you are done, you can use the .torrent file to share your files with your friends.