Posts Tagged ‘torrent’

Top 10 alternatives to Mininova

Last August a Dutch court ruled that Mininova had to remove all links to ‘infringing’ torrent files. Starting Nov 26 2009, only approved publishers are able to upload files to Mininova site. I know it sad to read this news, consider many of us have been visiting this site for reliable torrent file. Sp it now time to visit other bittorrent site for reliable torrent files. Below i list down a list of well reputable bittorrent site which i took from torrentfreak.

1. Torrentzap – Some of the torrent come with preview and used thumb up and down to judge how reliable this torrent file is.

2. Fenopy – Allow comment and has a verification button to rate this torrent file.

3. ExtraTorrent – My personal favourite now. Contain lot of comments by other so that u can check whether this is a true or fake torrent and also come with screen shot for most movie torrent.

4. KickassTorrents – Very simple user interface and make use of tagging to show you the most popular torrent file.

5. BTjunkie – Have verification tool also to check for reliability.

6. Monova – You can send an email to Monova to request use of your old account name. Great torrent site but find it containing too much ads but it is still worth searching for torrent you cannot find.

7. isoHunt – Good torrent search engine in it.

8. yourBitTorrent – Seen like a new torrent site. Not sure about it.

9. The Pirate Bay – Need me to say anything here. Should be the best torrent site now.

10. ShareReactor – Very easy to navigate website.

11. EZTV (Included by me) – Very good source for those who love english television series.

There are of course a lot more torrent site in there internet. I believe the site list here should satisfy your appetite and plus most of them produce good torrent file.

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Torrent Fetcher allow you to search torrent from desktop

TorrentFetcher

If you find it troublesome to search for torrent from different torrent site now you can save all the trouble by just using torrent fetcher. Torrent Fetcher comes with a comfortable interface to perform the search for Bittorrent files from the local computer system without firing up a web browser first. This method has several advantages including the ability to search multiple torrent indexers at once, the display of all discovered torrents on the same page in the same interface and a comfortable option to download torrents without having to switch pages. If you want to read more information about the torrent then you still have to go to the site to read. Currently torrent fetcher only allow you to search for torrent file and open it straight to your torrent client. Hopefully then will implement this feature in their next release. At the moment now torrent fetcher is available for Windows only.

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uTorrent 2.0 To Elimininate The Need For ISP Throttling

If according to what this site have say is true then we will be going to experience high download speed soon and without slowing down our online game and web browsing. I have extracted part of the article from his site.

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BitTorrent lnc is about to launch a completely improved implementation of the BitTorrent protocol that will benefit both users and ISPs. uTorrent 2.0, which is currently being tested by thousands of people, will eliminate the need for ISPs to throttle or stop BitTorrent traffic, and will optimize the download experience for its users.

This is where uTP comes in. uTP is a new and improved implementation of the BitTorrent protocol which is designed to be network friendly. The current implementation often causes interference with other applications, which is the main reason why ISPs try to slow it down, or even stop it altogether. uTP aims to solve this problem.

With uTP, uTorrent (and the Mainline client) will become network aware by throttling itself if congestion in the network is detected. This will have a huge impact on ISP networks according to Simon Morris, BitTorrent’s VP of Product Management. “If uTP is successful it should result in a multi-billion dollar windfall in terms of savings for ISPs,” Morris told TorrentFreak

This means that the new uTorrent will eliminate the need for ISPs to throttle BitTorrent traffic in their networks. Of course, uTorrent users will also be affected by the new protocol. When needed, uTorrent will decrease the upload or download speed to avoid congestion.

According to Morris it’s mainly the upload speed that will be affected. “The throttling that matters most is actually not so much the download but rather the upload – as bandwidth is normally much lower UP than DOWN, the up-link will almost always get congested before the down-link does,” he explained.

“uTP measures the time a packet takes to get sent from peer A to peer B, so in theory uTP will detect congestion anywhere on that path, although in practice the congestion most often happens somewhere on the first-mile uplink connection.”

So does this mean that the new uTorrent will result in slower download times? Not necessarily. Since there is less congestion, uTorrent users will experience no slowdowns in web-browsing, and ideally less congestion and a more efficient use of the network may result in faster download speeds. uTP is currently being tested in uTorrent v2.0 beta and thus far none of the testers have reported any significant problems.

“There are already a couple of hundred thousand people using our v2.0 beta client, and things seem to be progressing very nicely. Our v2.0 client will initiate outgoing uTP connections by default whenever it can. Previous versions of our clients will accept incoming uTP connections – they just won’t initiate them,” Morris said.

“We’re excited that this creates a better experience for millions of consumers, and it also potentially has a massive impact on ISPs – greatly reducing (even eliminating) any justification to manage or shape BitTorrent traffic and allowing ISP networks to handle more BitTorrent traffic, without resulting congestion forcing capital network upgrades ahead of schedule or the ‘need’ to invest in DPI or other traffic shaping gear.”

It is hard to tell if uTP really is BitTorrent’s savior, but if it lives up to the expectations it will be beneficial to both users and ISPs. The specs for uTP will eventually be open so other clients will have the opportunity to implement it too. However, since uTorrent and the Mainline client together are used by two thirds of all BitTorrent users, the effects should be immediately noticeable to both those users and ISPs.

via torrentfreak

Use android to download torrent by barcodes scanning

A newly develop aplication for Android by the name Torrent Droid. This app is able to search the web for the torrent file you are looking for after you have do a barcode scan on a piece of media. (eg. dvd, game, software) First of all u need to turn on the application and then use the phone camera to capture the product’s UPC barcode. After that it will  launch a search to find a torrent of the scanned media. Torrent Droid allows the user to then transfer or send this torrent file to the user’s home computer running uTorrent and the uTorrent Web Gui. The full version of Torrent Droid will be released within a month. Hope you enjoy the video.

Source: zerofate