I searched and still dont understand. What are web seeds ?

[GabrielSylar]

I did attempt to search, I couldn't seem to find exactly what web seeds are, and how as well as why one would use them. My assumption is that if you upload your file to say, Rapidshare, you can put that link in the torrent. Then again I might just be being an idiot. LOL. Thanks in advance everyone. I highly appreciate your time and effort.

[Switeck]

No, web seeds requires a direct download link that also supports file resumes AND segmented downloading (selecting pieces of it).

For the most part, web seeds work only with single-file torrents since they otherwise cannot handle edge pieces.

[GabrielSylar]

So suppose your torrents are single files, say a zip, or one avi, and that's it just the one file. How would you go about using web seeds, and would it be worth it. Can you recommend a site to use that supports resuming ? Or perhaps I could search for web seeding on google. Thanks man. Stay cool

[Switeck]

You have to have the file hosted as a direct http:// link somewhere that DOESN'T require any mouse-clicks past that point to start the download.

[magusjonny42]

So if im downloading "ubuntu-10.10-alternate-i386.iso" through utorrent using

http://releases.ubuntu.com/maverick/ubuntu-10.10-alternate-i386.iso.torrent

I can then add this link here to the web seeds portion in Advanced?

http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu-iso/CDs/10.10/ubuntu-10.10-alternate-i386.iso