Hope you like and enjoy this guide, Heres the contents :-

1.)Choosing your client
2.)The best sites I have come across
3.)Opening your ports
4.)Checking to see if the ports are open
5.)Spyware + Adware Section
6.)Antivirus section
7.)Connecting to your tracker
8.)Common Tracker Errors
9.)Opening the downloaded torrent
10.)Firefox Plugins
11.)Messages to Torrent Newbies
12.)lvlord patch
13.)Locating your I.P Address
14.)My success!!!

- Just let the torrent run in your client and the client will keep checking the tracker and should resume eventually.

I got stuck at 99% with several seeders - Try stopping the torrent and restarting from tracker :) that should work


9.)OPENING THE DOWNLOADED TORRENT


Mainly i download files that are .rar so i open and extract them using WinRAR, that supports RAR, ZIP, CAB, ARJ files.

If you download a .ISO .cue .pdi .ccd or .mds file use Alcohol 120%( http://www.alcohol-soft.com/ ) or Daemon Tools to mount it or burn them using Nero. (If it is a DVD ISO you could use DVD Decrypter)

Examples

Familyguy.rar - You open with WinRAR, Use this to extract then you might get any video format, .avi or .vobs or something like them

Familyguy.iso - You can check the quality by using VLC Media Player by VideoLAN Team, Then if your happy with the quality burn with Decyrpter it ISO Write mode


10.)FIREFOX PLUGINS

Another handy thing i would like to add is Mozilla FireFox plugins, I have the Torrentspy, BiteNova and the Torrenttyphoon Plugin. Excellent 'lazy' feature that saves alot of typing although i don't use public trackers as much i ust to their still very handy when my U/D ratio is getting abit out of control or if it's a torrent i don't mind waiting for.

If you dont have firefox get it here http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ It's the perfect browser for torrents especially with all the plugins and Bookmarked torrent sites.

All those intending to get Firefox look at Geestars pipelining thread OMG that increases the speed of loading pages considerably, which is handy when browsing while downloading Torrents

http://www.torrenttyphoon.com





11.)MESSAGES TO TORRENT NEWBIES

**I would reccomend changing your max upload to 20 when downloading!!**


at the start i couldn't get out of the 20s I have now improved things by 100KB/s.

Try to download your torrents one at a time. DO NOT RUSH
always download torrents when their at their healthiest
Don't expect miracles when the torrent has few seeders.


Once youve opened your ports,

Speed is ultimately down to the number of seeders and peers

Then its down to your internet connection (dial up,1mb,2mb....)

Don't be discouraged when your in high 20s low 30s and have 10 seeders or less thats normal! its very rare that I get above 50KB/s with less than 10 seeders.



12.)LVLORD PATCH

Once youve opened your ports,

Speed is ultimately down to the number of seeders and peers

Then its down to your internet connection (dial up,1mb,2mb....)

Don't be discouraged when your in high 20s low 30s and have 10 seeders or less thats normal! its very rare that I get above 50KB/s with less than 10 seeders.

what does it do
SP2 limits the number of simultaneous incomplete outbound TCP connection attempts. The Lvlord patch fixes that and then you can make as many as you want it usually works best for P2P apps like Limewire and IM-L Peanuts, but I've found it works on Torrent clients aswell




13.)LOCATING YOUR I.P ADDRESS


If you need to locate your I.P Address for whatever reason heres how












14.)MY SUCCESS






I did some research into the speeds 1mb Broadband should give....

Limewire Pro 4.9.23




IM-L 5




So on almost every client i was downloading at about 110KB/s-115KB/s,
Until recently i couldn't top 115KB/s until a couple of days ago when I maxed out at 132KB/s on a single Download, It can be done


Thanks for spending your time to read through this, I will add things that I feel are nessesary
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