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What the heck is a bit torrent?

I found a service manual that I need but it is on a torrent site. How does that work and what is needed to download and open it?

Please don't mention how old and out of date I am! LOL!

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  • 1 decade ago
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    BIt Torrent is a peer to peer file sharing program (P2P). It allows you to download shared files from other people's computer and offer your shared files to them.

    You will need to download a Torrent program. Do a Google on "Bit Torrent" and you will find several free one.

    Then go back to the site and down the torrent for the manual. It will be a small file that holds the information the Bit Torrent program needs to know who is sharing the manual you want.

    Double click the torrent file, and it should start Bit Torrent and download the file for you. The more people that are sharing the file, the faster you will get it. As you are downloading the file, you will also be making it available for others to download from you.

    Note: While Bit Torrent is a legal program, using it to download copyrighted material is illegal. (Like owning a gun is legal, but using it to shot your neighbor is not.)

  • 1 decade ago

    I would say - the service manual should first be sourced from the website of the hardware manufacturer.

    Not really needing a torrent download

    If you do get into torrents, this is a file-sharing network that needs specific clients and works by transferring files across multiple pc's in a shared manner.

    This is typically "more unsafe" than downloading from specific trusted sites.

  • 1 decade ago

    Bittorrent is basically the next generation p2p client. Instead of connecting directly to a person on an old file sharing client such as kazaa or limewire. You have a middle man such as a website server.

    I use bittorrent to download

    I am attaching a download link.

    Simply install that, it will associate all .torrent files.

    Open the file downloaded, and it will automatically download the file.

    The basics to know.

    Peers: The amount of people who have the file you want to download.

    Leechers: The amount of people who are downloading the file and who cannot share the whole thing.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    Torrents are records that are downloaded onto your pc. you probably did the main appropriate ingredient via downloading bit torrent, it quite is the way you're downloading the records onto your pc, however the records you attempt to play on your pc, your pc would possibly no longer have the main appropriate courses to run the downloaded records. download VLC participant (in basic terms google it)and play the video clips on that! it may take a protracted time to obtain the numerous episodes, it relies upon on what proportion all people is seeding, letting you obtain from them. you will possibly have a greater stable time with older exhibits or episodes.

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  • ?
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    It's a program similar to other P2P programs with a few differences, such as being able to pause a download and continue where you left off. They call it "bit" torrent because it requires many users sharing bits of the same file to compile it into one file on a particular download.

    http://www.bittorrent.com/

  • 1 decade ago

    just download any P2P s/w ..like bitcomet or utorrent .. you can download these s/w for free from www.download.com

    ..

    after loading s/w into ur pc .. simply open the torrent .. and s/w automatically download the service manuall

    ..

    good luck

  • 1 decade ago

    BITTORRENT IS A SITE ON THE INTERNET WHICH ENABLES YOU TO DOWNLOAD MOVIES . HOW TO FIND BITTORRENT : FROM ANY SEARCH ENGINE.

    ONE ONCE YOU SIGN IN YOU THEN HAVE TO SEARCH FOR THEPIRATE. GOOD LUCK!

    Source(s): AS YET WE HAVE NOT TRIED IT . BUT HEARD THAT IT DOES WORK
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