Forum for total newbies?

[alw1305]

Hi all

I am totally new to using torrents, just downloaded the software and realised I need to read up a little more before jumping into it.

Can someone please give me the 101 on downloading torrentz and using µTorrent?

I have had a look at the µTorrent FAQ but this assumes some knowledge or experience of downloading torrents previoously. As I said, I have never done this before.

Thanks in advance

Angela

[alw1305]

ok ok

so its dead easy

just decided to suck and see... and it seems to be working!!

for other newbies that read this thread..... all i did was find a .torrent file, save it to hard drive and then in µTorrent selected add torrent... and away she went.

[Firon]

http://www.bittorrent.com/FAQ.html

http://btfaq.com/serve/cache/1.html

You can start with that I guess.

[Ultima]

You do the FAQ here an injustice! =P

http://www.utorrent.com/faq.php

[alw1305]

now that i have a torrent downloading... the FAQ is useful

i just didn't know how to take that very first step as never used torrents before.

[Ultima]

Hm... 1c3d0g wrote a mini (more like mega ;P) guide that's geared toward helping newbies get better speeds. This can *sorta* be considered as a first-step tutorial, since newbies usually come to the forums after they find that they have slow speeds on their torrents. It, as you experienced above, isn't very hard to open a torrent with µTorrent and start downloading -- the real problems (for them) come when they desire greater speeds, and that's where this guide comes in =]

[splintax]

Ultima, exactly what I was thinking..