The Big Book of BitTorrent: The Torrent Guide for Everyone
There are tons of ways to download files, be it pictures of last Christmas party, or that new cinema flick. Amongst them are the conventional direct download, FTP, and of course Peer-to-Peer.
BitTorrent, an example of P2P, is a great, perhaps even the best way to download files, both in concept as in use – that is, once you’ve got the hang of it.
Because all of it seems pretty abstract to innitiates, many people experience difficulties at the start. Even those that would call themselves ‘advanced users’ often don’t know even half of what’s possible.
MakeUseOf proudly presents to you The Big Book of BitTorrent. All you think you should know, and more.
In 28 illustrated pages, Saikat Basu from The Things I Do takes newcomers by the hand and guides them in their first steps. Initiates, but also the more experienced users get their fair share of information.
Read how to start, and advance is the world of BitTorrent. Download The Big Book of BitTorrent here for free, in PDF.
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Thanks for a great book. I’m sure to link this post when I try and explain Bittorrent to the average person. One thing to note, http://www.demonoid.com is taking registrations right now, I just registered. Yeah!
hey Ellen how are you?
i see you got on to demonoid, i’v just missed out on registrations
do you think you could send me
invitation code ??
Is the download link right?
yep, definitely working.
The download link seems not to work…
the link points to a PDF file, which means you may need to wait for it to be downloaded to your PC before browser can fully open it.
WOW! Lots of good info. Easy to understand. Thanks
Wow, Bit-Torrent like totally ROCKS dude!
RT
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Apparantly my comment has disappeared. Anyway, I said the book doesn’t mention Peerguardian which you really need for p2p protection. The book seems okay, it doesn’t have much for advanced users though.
peerguardian is totally useless
Well, it was meant to be a primer so that newbies can start off with torrents.
Very informative, a little primer for folks just starting out with torrents.
Great book… Very informative…
Thanks…
I’m looking forward to how to re-connect torrents that are always stuck at 99.8%
Your half open portion is NONSENSE plain and simple — why do people continue to spread this FUD!! You have no need to try and connect to 80 freaking peers per seconds..
Suggesting people hack their tcp/ip stack is ASININE!!
I like torrents as a distribution platform, but I’m not sure that I’d ever call it the “best way” to download. The best way is the fastest and most reliable. Torrents, unfortunately, aren’t very predictable in either respect, but are certainly less impressive than direct downloads.
It’s definitely a technology that benefits the source of the files (providing other sources in the future) than the consumers.
I also mostly agree with bud. Nobody needs to mess with their network stacks unless they’re doing very specific kinds of work. Peer-to-peer is sufficiently normal that hacking the stack is more likely to slow things down than anything else.
hey well done. we often forget that people have trouble with these things; so thanks for sharing the knowledge
hi darren,right click on the file you are downloading,this will open the menu.left click on manual hash check,you will see your download reconfiguring,just leave it and it will finish off your download.
Dave,
They haven’t given me any invitation codes yet. It may depend on how much I seed and I haven’t done much yet. There are some books I want so I will try that and see if I can get you an invite. I lucked out with open registration, never saw that one before!
hey there seems to be a problem with the download link. when i click it i cant see the adobe doc. It just shows me the bottom part of the MUO home screen(the place where it says More Recent and Most Popular Articles part).
Thanks for providing this free, i will try it right away, keep blogging and sharing..
thanks alot for the great post . i linked to this post : )
Thanks u r information
thx for sharing this guide.
im gonna read it now.
These are good guiding principles. I really had shared an interesting topics shared.
This is stupid.. Waste of digital paper..
.. GOD
Download link working for me.. Lots of good info. Easy to understand. Thanks
Nice work mate…..
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In BitTorrent pdf it says leecher becomesa seeder after receiving complete file. Seeding is possible as soon as you have some data however small.
I guess it’s a difficult one to explain thanks to the dumb seeder/leecher terminology.
Thanks mate for sharing this guide.
Keep up the good work.
extremely useful…thanks