Easy Steps For Creating A Torrent File

Recently my friend wanted to get some files from my system. They were about 100-150 MB. We both know it will take years to send these files through Yahoo! Messenger, MSN or any other service. File Transfer really sucks there. I never thought about creating a torrent file. Many people know how to download a torrent, but they don’t know how to create them. The latter is very easy like the former. Many prefer this type of transferring because you can share this with many people. Let us discuss the steps for creating the smart way for transferring files. Let it be a couple of pictures, a farewell day video etc.

Note :

• The tracker identifies the network location of each client either uploading or downloading the P2P file associated with a torrent. It notifies the client of the P2P file location (that is normally on a different, remote server).

• A private tracker is a tracker which requires registration before you can use this service. Such trackers usually have a high amount of seeds, because users get banned if their ratio is too low.

Creating a torrrent file in Common BitTorrent clients

• uTorrent

1. File | Create new Torrent or Press Ctrl + N

1. Select the desired files / or directories

2. Trackers :  You can use one or more trackers here. But one is required.

These are the preferred trackers :

http://open.tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce
http://www.torrent-downloads.to:2710/announce
http://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce
udp://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce
http://www.sumotracker.com/announce

Put any one of this in the tracker box.

1. Do not tick the private torrent box unless you are using a private tracker.

Save the torrent. Thats all. Simple na ? 😛

• Vuze (formerly azureus)

1. File | New Torrent or Press Ctrl + N

1. Tick Use an external tracker.

The case varies if you are using a private tracker.

These are the preferred trackers :

http://tracker.prq.to/announce
http://inferno.demonoid.com:3389/announce
http://tracker.bt-chat.com/announce
http://tracker.zerotracker.com:2710/announce

Put any one of these in the tracker box

1. Select single file or dicectory and click Next

Point to the file or directory you want to share and click Next

Do not tick Private torrent

Do tick allow Decentralized tracking

Save the torrent

• BitComet

1. File | Create Torrent or Press Ctrl + N

2. Select the files and or directories

3. Select “Enable public DHT network” from the dropdown list

Note : By this you can be your own tracker if in case the public tracker goes down.

4. Tracker server and DHT node list

These are the preferred trackers :

http://open.tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce
http://www.torrent-downloads.to:2710/announce
http://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce
udp://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce
http://www.sumotracker.com/announce

Put any one of these in the tracker box

1. Save the torrent